Triple

T11055117
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Oregon E261353 entity
Predicate petitioner P3132 FINISHED
Object Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Company
Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Company was a regional Bell System telephone operating company that provided telephone services along the U.S. Pacific Coast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E478457 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: Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Company | Statement: [Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Oregon, petitioner, Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Company
Context triple: [Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Oregon, petitioner, Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Company]
  • A. Pacific Northwest Bell
    Pacific Northwest Bell was a regional Bell System telephone company that provided telecommunications services in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, primarily Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
  • B. Southwestern Bell
    Southwestern Bell was a major regional telephone company in the United States that later became part of AT&T through mergers and rebranding.
  • C. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
    Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company was a major regional Bell Operating Company that provided telephone service across much of the southeastern United States before the breakup of AT&T.
  • D. Pacific Bell
    Pacific Bell was a major regional telephone company in the western United States, best known as a former Baby Bell providing local and long-distance telecommunications services.
  • E. American Telephone and Telegraph Company
    American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) is a major American telecommunications corporation historically known for its nationwide telephone service monopoly and significant contributions to communications technology.
  • 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: Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Company
Triple: [Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Oregon, petitioner, Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Company]
Generated description
Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Company was a regional Bell System telephone operating company that provided telephone services along the U.S. Pacific Coast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Company
Target entity description: Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Company was a regional Bell System telephone operating company that provided telephone services along the U.S. Pacific Coast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. Pacific Northwest Bell
    Pacific Northwest Bell was a regional Bell System telephone company that provided telecommunications services in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, primarily Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
  • B. Southwestern Bell
    Southwestern Bell was a major regional telephone company in the United States that later became part of AT&T through mergers and rebranding.
  • C. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
    Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company was a major regional Bell Operating Company that provided telephone service across much of the southeastern United States before the breakup of AT&T.
  • D. Pacific Bell chosen
    Pacific Bell was a major regional telephone company in the western United States, best known as a former Baby Bell providing local and long-distance telecommunications services.
  • E. American Telephone and Telegraph Company
    American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) is a major American telecommunications corporation historically known for its nationwide telephone service monopoly and significant contributions to communications technology.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d6aa98650481908609c7c56bfa7902 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d798a0890481909c1d4f9d5b23f33a completed April 9, 2026, 12:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e3c86e0e6481908f091497313132c1 completed April 18, 2026, 6:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e3cefc00148190a1850dc6e31523c3 completed April 18, 2026, 6:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3d014a644819092c76aa02b573ca9 completed April 18, 2026, 6:40 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:26 p.m.