Triple

T15261882
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cyrus West Field E364797 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Atlantic Telegraph Company
The Atlantic Telegraph Company was a 19th-century enterprise that built and operated the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable, revolutionizing long-distance communication between Europe and North America.
E1146633 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: Atlantic Telegraph Company | Statement: [Cyrus West Field, knownFor, Atlantic Telegraph Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Atlantic Telegraph Company
Context triple: [Cyrus West Field, knownFor, Atlantic Telegraph Company]
  • A. Pacific Telegraph Company
    The Pacific Telegraph Company was a 19th-century American telegraph firm instrumental in establishing long-distance telegraph communication across the United States.
  • B. Great Northern Telegraph Company
    The Great Northern Telegraph Company was a major 19th-century international telegraph firm that operated extensive submarine cable networks connecting Europe with Asia.
  • C. Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company
    Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company was a regional Canadian telecommunications provider that historically delivered telephone and related communication services throughout the Maritime provinces.
  • D. Compagnie Générale de Télégraphie Sans Fil
    Compagnie Générale de Télégraphie Sans Fil was a historic French electronics and telecommunications company that became a key predecessor to the modern Thales Group.
  • E. Brown Telephone Company
    Brown Telephone Company was an early regional telephone service provider that eventually evolved into what became Sprint Corporation.
  • 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: Atlantic Telegraph Company
Triple: [Cyrus West Field, knownFor, Atlantic Telegraph Company]
Generated description
The Atlantic Telegraph Company was a 19th-century enterprise that built and operated the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable, revolutionizing long-distance communication between Europe and North America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Atlantic Telegraph Company
Target entity description: The Atlantic Telegraph Company was a 19th-century enterprise that built and operated the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable, revolutionizing long-distance communication between Europe and North America.
  • A. Pacific Telegraph Company
    The Pacific Telegraph Company was a 19th-century American telegraph firm instrumental in establishing long-distance telegraph communication across the United States.
  • B. Great Northern Telegraph Company
    The Great Northern Telegraph Company was a major 19th-century international telegraph firm that operated extensive submarine cable networks connecting Europe with Asia.
  • C. Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company
    Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company was a regional Canadian telecommunications provider that historically delivered telephone and related communication services throughout the Maritime provinces.
  • D. Compagnie Générale de Télégraphie Sans Fil
    Compagnie Générale de Télégraphie Sans Fil was a historic French electronics and telecommunications company that became a key predecessor to the modern Thales Group.
  • E. Brown Telephone Company
    Brown Telephone Company was an early regional telephone service provider that eventually evolved into what became Sprint Corporation.
  • 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_69d85a0f08408190b3c3259ae35d79d2 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e0084e85a08190b8e63598b9f6a535 completed April 15, 2026, 9:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fee5fb8b30819096d31ba5884715c9 completed May 9, 2026, 7:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fee805f5bc8190a6095e3c374f3441 completed May 9, 2026, 7:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fee8e4dc688190bd597f8d710c8afc completed May 9, 2026, 7:57 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:14 a.m.