Triple
T16732268
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Southwestern Bell Telephone Company |
E406619
|
entity |
| Predicate | regulatedAs |
P310
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Regional Bell Operating Company |
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 Company | Statement: [Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, regulatedAs, Regional Bell Operating Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Regional Bell Operating Company Context triple: [Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, regulatedAs, Regional Bell Operating Company]
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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.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company was a major regional Bell Operating Company that provided telephone service across much of the southeastern United States before the breakup of AT&T.
- 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_6a00a519a89081909456bb6fc25d9234 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 3:32 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:20 a.m.