Triple
T16732134
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Baby Bells |
E406617
|
entity |
| Predicate | alsoKnownAs |
P39
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Regional Bell Operating Companies |
E177031
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: [Baby Bells, alsoKnownAs, Regional Bell Operating Companies]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Regional Bell Operating Companies Context triple: [Baby Bells, alsoKnownAs, Regional Bell Operating Companies]
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A.
Regional Bell Operating Companies
chosen
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.
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B.
Pacific Northwest Bell
Pacific Northwest Bell was a regional Bell System telephone company that provided telecommunications services in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, primarily Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
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C.
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.
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D.
Bell Operating Companies
The Bell Operating Companies are the regional telephone service providers that were created from the breakup of AT&T’s Bell System and historically handled local telephone operations across different parts of the United States.
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E.
New Brunswick Telephone Company
New Brunswick Telephone Company was a regional telecommunications provider in New Brunswick, Canada, that offered telephone and related communication services before being succeeded by Bell Aliant.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d8838f242881908abd8bc138795886 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e39c362bb88190921fab43d76c3ee8 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 2:59 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a009d4a94688190aabe56c34e8cc2c3 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 2:59 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:20 a.m.