Triple

T2425003
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject BellSouth E53504 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object South Central Bell
South Central Bell was a regional Bell Operating Company that provided telephone service across several southeastern U.S. states before being reorganized under BellSouth.
E53504 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: South Central Bell | Statement: [BellSouth, predecessor, South Central Bell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: South Central Bell
Context triple: [BellSouth, predecessor, South Central Bell]
  • A. Southern Telecom
    Southern Telecom is a telecommunications subsidiary of Southern Company that provides fiber-optic network and related communication services.
  • B. Southwestern Bell
    Southwestern Bell was a major regional telephone company in the United States that later became part of AT&T through mergers and rebranding.
  • C. BellSouth
    BellSouth was a major American telecommunications company, formerly one of the regional "Baby Bells" created after the breakup of AT&T, providing telephone and related services across the southeastern United States.
  • D. GTE South
    GTE South was a regional telephone operating company in the United States that provided local and long-distance telecommunications services as part of the former GTE Corporation.
  • E. Ameritech
    Ameritech was a regional telecommunications company formed after the breakup of AT&T’s Bell System, serving the Midwestern United States with local and long-distance phone services.
  • 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: South Central Bell
Triple: [BellSouth, predecessor, South Central Bell]
Generated description
South Central Bell was a regional Bell Operating Company that provided telephone service across several southeastern U.S. states before being reorganized under BellSouth.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: South Central Bell
Target entity description: South Central Bell was a regional Bell Operating Company that provided telephone service across several southeastern U.S. states before being reorganized under BellSouth.
  • A. Southern Telecom
    Southern Telecom is a telecommunications subsidiary of Southern Company that provides fiber-optic network and related communication services.
  • B. Southwestern Bell
    Southwestern Bell was a major regional telephone company in the United States that later became part of AT&T through mergers and rebranding.
  • C. BellSouth chosen
    BellSouth was a major American telecommunications company, formerly one of the regional "Baby Bells" created after the breakup of AT&T, providing telephone and related services across the southeastern United States.
  • D. GTE South
    GTE South was a regional telephone operating company in the United States that provided local and long-distance telecommunications services as part of the former GTE Corporation.
  • E. Ameritech
    Ameritech was a regional telecommunications company formed after the breakup of AT&T’s Bell System, serving the Midwestern United States with local and long-distance phone services.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ab495c44d48190b7235b23719bc3f6 completed March 6, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc99a773c819092d5f3c297b83887 completed March 7, 2026, 6:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aebf61088481909d79e822e4071456 completed March 9, 2026, 12:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aec2e4fee481909704d329ad92f4ad completed March 9, 2026, 12:53 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aec39bb6a4819084652814e18f60d4 completed March 9, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m.