Triple

T12035420
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject IBM 604 E286523 entity
Predicate usedInCombinationWith P4791 FINISHED
Object IBM 402 accounting machine
The IBM 402 accounting machine was an electromechanical tabulator widely used in the mid-20th century for business data processing tasks such as sorting, tabulating, and printing information from punched cards.
E972548 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: IBM 402 accounting machine | Statement: [IBM 604, usedInCombinationWith, IBM 402 accounting machine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: IBM 402 accounting machine
Context triple: [IBM 604, usedInCombinationWith, IBM 402 accounting machine]
  • A. IBM 521 card punch
    The IBM 521 card punch was an electromechanical unit record machine used to punch, read, and process data on punched cards in early IBM data processing systems.
  • B. Harvard Mark I computer
    The Harvard Mark I computer was an early electromechanical, general-purpose computer built during World War II that pioneered the separation of data and instruction storage later known as the Harvard architecture.
  • C. IBM 650
    The IBM 650 was an early, widely used mid-1950s drum-based decimal computer that helped popularize electronic data processing in business and education.
  • D. IBM 605
    The IBM 605 was an early electronic calculating machine introduced in the 1940s that automated complex arithmetic operations for business and scientific applications.
  • E. Harvard Mark IV computer
    The Harvard Mark IV computer was an early fully electronic, stored-program computer built at Harvard University in the late 1940s–early 1950s as part of the Mark series of pioneering computing machines.
  • 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: IBM 402 accounting machine
Triple: [IBM 604, usedInCombinationWith, IBM 402 accounting machine]
Generated description
The IBM 402 accounting machine was an electromechanical tabulator widely used in the mid-20th century for business data processing tasks such as sorting, tabulating, and printing information from punched cards.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: IBM 402 accounting machine
Target entity description: The IBM 402 accounting machine was an electromechanical tabulator widely used in the mid-20th century for business data processing tasks such as sorting, tabulating, and printing information from punched cards.
  • A. IBM 521 card punch
    The IBM 521 card punch was an electromechanical unit record machine used to punch, read, and process data on punched cards in early IBM data processing systems.
  • B. Harvard Mark I computer
    The Harvard Mark I computer was an early electromechanical, general-purpose computer built during World War II that pioneered the separation of data and instruction storage later known as the Harvard architecture.
  • C. IBM 650
    The IBM 650 was an early, widely used mid-1950s drum-based decimal computer that helped popularize electronic data processing in business and education.
  • D. IBM 605
    The IBM 605 was an early electronic calculating machine introduced in the 1940s that automated complex arithmetic operations for business and scientific applications.
  • E. Harvard Mark IV computer
    The Harvard Mark IV computer was an early fully electronic, stored-program computer built at Harvard University in the late 1940s–early 1950s as part of the Mark series of pioneering computing machines.
  • 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_69d6ab4669e48190b59246358b0383ab completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d90408cbf0819093270c9833ef149a completed April 10, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f60a613054819082f7900a6ba8fbf8 completed May 2, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f60d8456d881908b5647b77fc53780 completed May 2, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f60e2c52b0819094c8e67286235400 completed May 2, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:47 p.m.