Triple

T1026662
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Steve Case E22153 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object AOL–Time Warner merger
The AOL–Time Warner merger was a landmark 2000 corporate deal that combined internet giant AOL with media conglomerate Time Warner, later becoming infamous as one of the most disastrous mergers in business history.
E119946 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: AOL–Time Warner merger | Statement: [Steve Case, notableWork, AOL–Time Warner merger]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: AOL–Time Warner merger
Context triple: [Steve Case, notableWork, AOL–Time Warner merger]
  • A. Time Warner
    Time Warner was a major American media and entertainment conglomerate known for owning prominent film, television, and publishing assets such as Warner Bros., HBO, and CNN.
  • B. AOL
    AOL is a pioneering American internet and online services company best known for popularizing dial-up access and email in the 1990s and early 2000s.
  • C. Metromedia
    Metromedia was a major American media company that owned a group of independent television and radio stations, many of which later formed the core of the Fox Broadcasting Company.
  • D. Netscape Communications Corporation
    Netscape Communications Corporation was a pioneering web browser company of the 1990s whose Netscape Navigator played a central role in the early popularization of the World Wide Web.
  • E. Turner Broadcasting System
    Turner Broadcasting System is a major American media company best known for operating cable television networks such as CNN, TBS, and TNT.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: AOL–Time Warner merger
Triple: [Steve Case, notableWork, AOL–Time Warner merger]
Generated description
The AOL–Time Warner merger was a landmark 2000 corporate deal that combined internet giant AOL with media conglomerate Time Warner, later becoming infamous as one of the most disastrous mergers in business history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: AOL–Time Warner merger
Target entity description: The AOL–Time Warner merger was a landmark 2000 corporate deal that combined internet giant AOL with media conglomerate Time Warner, later becoming infamous as one of the most disastrous mergers in business history.
  • A. Time Warner
    Time Warner was a major American media and entertainment conglomerate known for owning prominent film, television, and publishing assets such as Warner Bros., HBO, and CNN.
  • B. AOL
    AOL is a pioneering American internet and online services company best known for popularizing dial-up access and email in the 1990s and early 2000s.
  • C. Metromedia
    Metromedia was a major American media company that owned a group of independent television and radio stations, many of which later formed the core of the Fox Broadcasting Company.
  • D. Netscape Communications Corporation
    Netscape Communications Corporation was a pioneering web browser company of the 1990s whose Netscape Navigator played a central role in the early popularization of the World Wide Web.
  • E. Turner Broadcasting System
    Turner Broadcasting System is a major American media company best known for operating cable television networks such as CNN, TBS, and TNT.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69a493d6e380819097b384986ffc315c completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b7f5e7b48190b26524573c2824ba completed March 1, 2026, 10:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac3bba40f88190b80010a837dfb1cc completed March 7, 2026, 2:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac3c7d16748190a95aaffd04a867b3 completed March 7, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac3ce827b88190a5de06c695ad4ecb completed March 7, 2026, 2:57 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.