Triple

T13273357
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wesco Financial Corporation E316123 entity
Predicate tickerSymbol P1447 FINISHED
Object WSC
WSC is the stock ticker symbol for Wesco Financial Corporation, a diversified financial services company formerly associated with Berkshire Hathaway.
E1030201 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: WSC | Statement: [Wesco Financial Corporation, tickerSymbol, WSC]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: WSC
Context triple: [Wesco Financial Corporation, tickerSymbol, WSC]
  • A. WSC
    WSC is an abbreviation for the West Spitsbergen Current, a warm, northward-flowing ocean current along the western coast of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean.
  • B. WSC
    WSC is a Microsoft technology that allows developers to create reusable COM-based script components using languages like VBScript or JScript for automation and application integration on Windows.
  • C. WC
    WC is an American West Coast rapper known for his distinctive gravelly voice, solo work, and as a member of the hip hop supergroup Westside Connection.
  • D. WC
    WC is the standard abbreviation for Western Command, a regional military command formation.
  • E. wc
    wc is a GNU Core Utilities command-line program that counts lines, words, and bytes in text input.
  • 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: WSC
Triple: [Wesco Financial Corporation, tickerSymbol, WSC]
Generated description
WSC is the stock ticker symbol for Wesco Financial Corporation, a diversified financial services company formerly associated with Berkshire Hathaway.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: WSC
Target entity description: WSC is the stock ticker symbol for Wesco Financial Corporation, a diversified financial services company formerly associated with Berkshire Hathaway.
  • A. WSC
    WSC is an abbreviation for the West Spitsbergen Current, a warm, northward-flowing ocean current along the western coast of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean.
  • B. WSC
    WSC is a Microsoft technology that allows developers to create reusable COM-based script components using languages like VBScript or JScript for automation and application integration on Windows.
  • C. WC
    WC is an American West Coast rapper known for his distinctive gravelly voice, solo work, and as a member of the hip hop supergroup Westside Connection.
  • D. WC
    WC is the standard abbreviation for Western Command, a regional military command formation.
  • E. wc
    wc is a GNU Core Utilities command-line program that counts lines, words, and bytes in text input.
  • 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_69d806b1d9ac8190852c5571d5bd5f0f completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9904193bc8190af4155750bcf32f6 completed April 11, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f70a51d458819080b8c8f3a4df0f52 completed May 3, 2026, 8:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f70b117c588190bb81ff53664cac4a completed May 3, 2026, 8:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f70c04da34819091e01db25741674e completed May 3, 2026, 8:49 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:26 p.m.