Triple

T19182679
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walter A. Shewhart E469614 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Western Electric Company NE NERFINISHED

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: Western Electric Company | Statement: [Walter A. Shewhart, employer, Western Electric Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Electric Company
Context triple: [Walter A. Shewhart, employer, Western Electric Company]
  • A. Western Electric chosen
    Western Electric was a major American electrical engineering and manufacturing company best known as the manufacturing arm of AT&T and a pioneer in telecommunications and sound technology.
  • B. Bell Telephone Company
    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.
  • C. American Telephone and Telegraph Company
    American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) is a major American telecommunications corporation historically known for its nationwide telephone service monopoly and significant contributions to communications technology.
  • 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. Brown Telephone Company
    Brown Telephone Company was an early regional telephone service provider that eventually evolved into what became Sprint Corporation.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (2 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_69d8dd09d5a081909ae43c286651ae5a completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5f61e1c248190ba9e220c1be61ef8 completed April 20, 2026, 9:47 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:07 p.m.