Triple
T17282804
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | BB&T |
E419574
|
entity |
| Predicate | originalName |
P65
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Branch and Company
Branch and Company was the original banking firm that later evolved into BB&T, a major American financial services corporation.
|
E1260246
|
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: Branch and Company | Statement: [BB&T, originalName, Branch and Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Branch and Company Context triple: [BB&T, originalName, Branch and Company]
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A.
United Company
United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
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B.
Bridge Company
Bridge Company is a specialized engineering unit responsible for constructing, maintaining, and operating military bridging and related support structures to enable the movement of forces and equipment.
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C.
Mount Company
Mount Company is a film production company best known for producing the 1988 baseball romantic comedy "Bull Durham."
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D.
Buchanan Enterprises
Buchanan Enterprises is a powerful fictional business conglomerate in the soap opera "One Life to Live," owned and run by members of the Buchanan family.
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E.
The Company
The Company is a powerful clandestine organization in the TV series "Prison Break" that orchestrates political conspiracies and manipulates events from the shadows.
- 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: Branch and Company Triple: [BB&T, originalName, Branch and Company]
Generated description
Branch and Company was the original banking firm that later evolved into BB&T, a major American financial services corporation.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Branch and Company Target entity description: Branch and Company was the original banking firm that later evolved into BB&T, a major American financial services corporation.
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A.
United Company
United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
-
B.
Bridge Company
Bridge Company is a specialized engineering unit responsible for constructing, maintaining, and operating military bridging and related support structures to enable the movement of forces and equipment.
-
C.
Mount Company
Mount Company is a film production company best known for producing the 1988 baseball romantic comedy "Bull Durham."
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D.
Buchanan Enterprises
Buchanan Enterprises is a powerful fictional business conglomerate in the soap opera "One Life to Live," owned and run by members of the Buchanan family.
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E.
The Company
"The Company" is a 2007 British television drama miniseries in which Tom Hollander appears, centered on Cold War-era espionage and CIA operations.
- 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_69d886da626481908a14ce7830329a35 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e4332b19f481908acfa88b2f57c5dc |
completed | April 19, 2026, 1:43 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a0179535ae08190ac0137d0f8741919 |
completed | May 11, 2026, 6:38 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a0179e161808190b4d865e6e281489c |
completed | May 11, 2026, 6:40 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a017aaf88a48190a85b9a3d7ff30b97 |
completed | May 11, 2026, 6:43 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:40 a.m.