Triple

T1565746
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bell System E33427 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object Pacific Telesis
Pacific Telesis was a regional telecommunications company formed after the breakup of AT&T, serving as one of the Baby Bells providing local telephone and related services in the western United States.
E177032 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: Pacific Telesis | Statement: [Bell System, successor, Pacific Telesis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Telesis
Context triple: [Bell System, successor, Pacific Telesis]
  • A. Telewest
    Telewest was a major UK cable television, broadband, and telecommunications provider that later became part of Virgin Media through a merger.
  • B. Southern Telecom
    Southern Telecom is a telecommunications subsidiary of Southern Company that provides fiber-optic network and related communication services.
  • C. KDDI
    KDDI is a major Japanese telecommunications company that provides mobile, broadband, and other communication services domestically and internationally.
  • D. NTT DoCoMo
    NTT DoCoMo is Japan’s largest mobile network operator, known for pioneering advanced mobile technologies and services, including early 3G deployments.
  • E. Northern Telecom
    Northern Telecom was a major Canadian telecommunications equipment manufacturer and technology company, later known as Nortel Networks, that played a significant role in global telecom infrastructure.
  • 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: Pacific Telesis
Triple: [Bell System, successor, Pacific Telesis]
Generated description
Pacific Telesis was a regional telecommunications company formed after the breakup of AT&T, serving as one of the Baby Bells providing local telephone and related services in the western United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Telesis
Target entity description: Pacific Telesis was a regional telecommunications company formed after the breakup of AT&T, serving as one of the Baby Bells providing local telephone and related services in the western United States.
  • A. Telewest
    Telewest was a major UK cable television, broadband, and telecommunications provider that later became part of Virgin Media through a merger.
  • B. Southern Telecom
    Southern Telecom is a telecommunications subsidiary of Southern Company that provides fiber-optic network and related communication services.
  • C. KDDI
    KDDI is a major Japanese telecommunications company that provides mobile, broadband, and other communication services domestically and internationally.
  • D. NTT DoCoMo
    NTT DoCoMo is Japan’s largest mobile network operator, known for pioneering advanced mobile technologies and services, including early 3G deployments.
  • E. Northern Telecom
    Northern Telecom was a major Canadian telecommunications equipment manufacturer and technology company, later known as Nortel Networks, that played a significant role in global telecom infrastructure.
  • 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.