Triple

T1521694
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Central Independent Television E32242 entity
Predicate owner P347 FINISHED
Object Carlton Communications
Carlton Communications was a major British media company best known for its television broadcasting interests, including its role as a prominent ITV franchise holder in the UK.
E173824 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: Carlton Communications | Statement: [Central Independent Television, owner, Carlton Communications]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carlton Communications
Context triple: [Central Independent Television, owner, Carlton Communications]
  • A. Sinclair Broadcast Group
    Sinclair Broadcast Group is a major American telecommunications conglomerate and one of the largest owners and operators of television stations in the United States.
  • B. American Television and Communications Corporation
    American Television and Communications Corporation was a major U.S. cable television company that became part of the business later known as Time Warner Cable.
  • C. A. H. Belo Corporation
    A. H. Belo Corporation is a historic American media company best known as the longtime publisher of The Dallas Morning News and other newspapers.
  • D. Snyder Communications
    Snyder Communications was a marketing and advertising services company founded by businessman Dan Snyder that grew rapidly in the 1990s before being acquired by Havas.
  • E. Westinghouse Broadcasting Company
    Westinghouse Broadcasting Company was a major American radio and television broadcasting group that operated numerous stations and helped shape the development of commercial broadcasting in the United States.
  • 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: Carlton Communications
Triple: [Central Independent Television, owner, Carlton Communications]
Generated description
Carlton Communications was a major British media company best known for its television broadcasting interests, including its role as a prominent ITV franchise holder in the UK.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carlton Communications
Target entity description: Carlton Communications was a major British media company best known for its television broadcasting interests, including its role as a prominent ITV franchise holder in the UK.
  • A. Sinclair Broadcast Group
    Sinclair Broadcast Group is a major American telecommunications conglomerate and one of the largest owners and operators of television stations in the United States.
  • B. American Television and Communications Corporation
    American Television and Communications Corporation was a major U.S. cable television company that became part of the business later known as Time Warner Cable.
  • C. A. H. Belo Corporation
    A. H. Belo Corporation is a historic American media company best known as the longtime publisher of The Dallas Morning News and other newspapers.
  • D. Snyder Communications
    Snyder Communications was a marketing and advertising services company founded by businessman Dan Snyder that grew rapidly in the 1990s before being acquired by Havas.
  • E. Westinghouse Broadcasting Company
    Westinghouse Broadcasting Company was a major American radio and television broadcasting group that operated numerous stations and helped shape the development of commercial broadcasting in the United States.
  • 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_69a885e9b0ac819093a9806ad0efc82c completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a907fe8b0c8190a765afd3a10ee5e0 completed March 5, 2026, 4:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad294f9e2481909f1d685d7f083c6a completed March 8, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad29f4edc48190b78a6df091e289ab completed March 8, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad2a78b9608190b70f8d0ae531618d completed March 8, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:26 p.m.