Triple

T12035421
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject IBM 604 E286523 entity
Predicate usedInCombinationWith P4791 FINISHED
Object IBM 407 accounting machine
The IBM 407 accounting machine was an electromechanical punched-card tabulator widely used in mid-20th-century business data processing for tasks such as billing, payroll, and general accounting.
E974502 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 407 accounting machine | Statement: [IBM 604, usedInCombinationWith, IBM 407 accounting machine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: IBM 407 accounting machine
Context triple: [IBM 604, usedInCombinationWith, IBM 407 accounting machine]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. IBM punched card tabulators
    IBM punched card tabulators were electromechanical data-processing machines that read, sorted, and summarized information stored on punched cards for business, scientific, and government applications before the advent of modern computers.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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 407 accounting machine
Triple: [IBM 604, usedInCombinationWith, IBM 407 accounting machine]
Generated description
The IBM 407 accounting machine was an electromechanical punched-card tabulator widely used in mid-20th-century business data processing for tasks such as billing, payroll, and general accounting.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: IBM 407 accounting machine
Target entity description: The IBM 407 accounting machine was an electromechanical punched-card tabulator widely used in mid-20th-century business data processing for tasks such as billing, payroll, and general accounting.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. IBM punched card tabulators
    IBM punched card tabulators were electromechanical data-processing machines that read, sorted, and summarized information stored on punched cards for business, scientific, and government applications before the advent of modern computers.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69f61e3cd0648190ac6d5587bd7024a7 completed May 2, 2026, 3:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f61f9386548190a749445a404db3a2 completed May 2, 2026, 4 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6207f164c8190b663a50ee3c761d6 completed May 2, 2026, 4:04 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:47 p.m.