Triple

T1565741
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bell System E33427 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object Regional Bell Operating Companies
The Regional Bell Operating Companies are a group of local telephone service providers in the United States that were created from the breakup of AT&T’s Bell System monopoly in the 1980s.
E177031 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: Regional Bell Operating Companies | Statement: [Bell System, successor, Regional Bell Operating Companies]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Regional Bell Operating Companies
Context triple: [Bell System, successor, Regional Bell Operating Companies]
  • A. Southwestern Bell
    Southwestern Bell was a major regional telephone company in the United States that later became part of AT&T through mergers and rebranding.
  • B. Bell System
    The Bell System was the historic, vertically integrated telephone monopoly in the United States, led by AT&T, that dominated telecommunications services and research for much of the 20th century.
  • C. Southern Telecom
    Southern Telecom is a telecommunications subsidiary of Southern Company that provides fiber-optic network and related communication services.
  • D. BellSouth
    BellSouth was a major American telecommunications company, formerly one of the regional "Baby Bells" created after the breakup of AT&T, providing telephone and related services across the southeastern United States.
  • E. Bell Telephone Company
    Bell Telephone Company was the pioneering telecommunications firm established in the late 19th century that evolved into the core of the Bell System and laid the foundation for modern telephone service in North America.
  • 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: Regional Bell Operating Companies
Triple: [Bell System, successor, Regional Bell Operating Companies]
Generated description
The Regional Bell Operating Companies are a group of local telephone service providers in the United States that were created from the breakup of AT&T’s Bell System monopoly in the 1980s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Regional Bell Operating Companies
Target entity description: The Regional Bell Operating Companies are a group of local telephone service providers in the United States that were created from the breakup of AT&T’s Bell System monopoly in the 1980s.
  • A. Southwestern Bell
    Southwestern Bell was a major regional telephone company in the United States that later became part of AT&T through mergers and rebranding.
  • B. Bell System
    The Bell System was the historic, vertically integrated telephone monopoly in the United States, led by AT&T, that dominated telecommunications services and research for much of the 20th century.
  • C. Southern Telecom
    Southern Telecom is a telecommunications subsidiary of Southern Company that provides fiber-optic network and related communication services.
  • D. BellSouth
    BellSouth was a major American telecommunications company, formerly one of the regional "Baby Bells" created after the breakup of AT&T, providing telephone and related services across the southeastern United States.
  • E. Bell Telephone Company
    Bell Telephone Company was the pioneering telecommunications firm established in the late 19th century that evolved into the core of the Bell System and laid the foundation for modern telephone service in North America.
  • 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_69a885f11b048190935025a035302715 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb2308bec81909d1660934eff171b completed March 7, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad3719dfdc819085511f96f9f92dba completed March 8, 2026, 8:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad37d59e94819085504ea25dfa8311 completed March 8, 2026, 8:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad382b126c8190a308415bd6c4264b completed March 8, 2026, 8:49 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.