Triple

T3035069
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject transcontinental telegraph E82988 entity
Predicate builtBy P972 FINISHED
Object Pacific Telegraph Company
The Pacific Telegraph Company was a 19th-century American telegraph firm instrumental in establishing long-distance telegraph communication across the United States.
E320216 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: Pacific Telegraph Company | Statement: [transcontinental telegraph, builtBy, Pacific Telegraph Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Telegraph Company
Context triple: [transcontinental telegraph, builtBy, Pacific Telegraph Company]
  • A. Great Northern Telegraph Company
    The Great Northern Telegraph Company was a major 19th-century international telegraph firm that operated extensive submarine cable networks connecting Europe with Asia.
  • 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. American Marconi Company
    The American Marconi Company was the U.S. subsidiary of Guglielmo Marconi’s wireless telegraphy enterprise, a pioneering firm in early radio communication technology and operations.
  • E. New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company
    The New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company was the 19th-century telegraph firm that later became known as Western Union, a major American telecommunications company.
  • 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: Pacific Telegraph Company
Triple: [transcontinental telegraph, builtBy, Pacific Telegraph Company]
Generated description
The Pacific Telegraph Company was a 19th-century American telegraph firm instrumental in establishing long-distance telegraph communication across the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Telegraph Company
Target entity description: The Pacific Telegraph Company was a 19th-century American telegraph firm instrumental in establishing long-distance telegraph communication across the United States.
  • A. Great Northern Telegraph Company
    The Great Northern Telegraph Company was a major 19th-century international telegraph firm that operated extensive submarine cable networks connecting Europe with Asia.
  • 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. American Marconi Company
    The American Marconi Company was the U.S. subsidiary of Guglielmo Marconi’s wireless telegraphy enterprise, a pioneering firm in early radio communication technology and operations.
  • E. New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company
    The New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company was the 19th-century telegraph firm that later became known as Western Union, a major American telecommunications company.
  • 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_69ad8b21a62881908ec5dd4fba4a187c completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9b2a40b48190bfa7cdbb0fbd87f8 completed March 8, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1dec577d481909a659607c17983ce completed March 11, 2026, 9:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1df61bb208190b7714ff14ff81a99 completed March 11, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1dfd8fc5481908f1e130226d606fb completed March 11, 2026, 9:34 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:01 p.m.