Triple
T2204621
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Bell Canada |
E50567
|
entity |
| Predicate | formerName |
P65
|
FINISHED |
| Object | The Bell Telephone Company of Canada |
E50567
|
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 Bell Telephone Company of Canada | Statement: [Bell Canada, formerName, The Bell Telephone Company of Canada]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Bell Telephone Company of Canada Context triple: [Bell Canada, formerName, The Bell Telephone Company of Canada]
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A.
Bell Canada
chosen
Bell Canada is a major Canadian telecommunications company providing phone, internet, and television services nationwide.
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B.
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.
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C.
Northern Telecom
Northern Telecom was a major Canadian telecommunications equipment manufacturer and technology company, later known as Nortel Networks, that played a significant role in global telecom infrastructure.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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_69a88b044ab48190add007487680f009 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abbfc876cc8190950230b7770efdc3 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:03 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ae7efa34e88190a6907515b574f752 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 8:04 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:46 p.m.