Triple

T16732277
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Southwestern Bell Telephone Company E406619 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Bell Telephone Company E45010 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: Bell Telephone Company | Statement: [Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, foundedBy, Bell Telephone Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bell Telephone Company
Context triple: [Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, foundedBy, Bell Telephone Company]
  • A. Bell Telephone Company chosen
    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.
  • B. Brown Telephone Company
    Brown Telephone Company was an early regional telephone service provider that eventually evolved into what became Sprint Corporation.
  • 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.
  • D. General Telephone Corporation
    General Telephone Corporation was a major independent U.S. telephone company that later became part of GTE, one of the largest telecommunications providers before its merger into Verizon.
  • 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_6a00cfbe853c8190941d9a20173100fc completed May 10, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:20 a.m.