Triple
T16926120
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Southern Company |
E410577
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedAs |
P364
|
FINISHED |
| Object | The Southern Company |
E14064
|
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: The Southern Company | Statement: [The Southern Company, foundedAs, The Southern Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Southern Company Context triple: [The Southern Company, foundedAs, The Southern Company]
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A.
Southern Company
chosen
Southern Company is one of the largest U.S. energy providers, primarily supplying electricity and natural gas across the southeastern United States through its regulated utilities and related businesses.
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B.
Cinergy Corporation
Cinergy Corporation was a U.S.-based energy company best known in part for its naming rights sponsorship of Cincinnati’s Cinergy Field baseball stadium.
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C.
Oglethorpe Power Corporation
Oglethorpe Power Corporation is a Georgia-based electric cooperative that generates and supplies wholesale power to member-owned utilities, including through ownership stakes in nuclear facilities.
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D.
Southern Electric
Southern Electric was a former regional electricity company in the United Kingdom that later became part of SSE plc through a merger.
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E.
Dominion Energy
Dominion Energy is a large American energy company that generates and distributes electricity and natural gas to customers across multiple states, particularly in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions.
- 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_69d886c7b1e481908c3766dfa8c13458 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e3cdf1ebdc8190b39a9469636de01e |
completed | April 18, 2026, 6:31 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a00d45a6ee8819092ae7c572be68e62 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 6:54 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:30 a.m.