Triple

T4187680
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Truist Financial E88352 entity
Predicate formedByMergerOf P77 FINISHED
Object SunTrust Banks
SunTrust Banks was a major American regional bank holding company based in the southeastern United States that later became part of Truist Financial.
 E422450 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: SunTrust Banks | Statement: [Truist Financial, formedByMergerOf, SunTrust Banks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: SunTrust Banks
Context triple: [Truist Financial, formedByMergerOf, SunTrust Banks]
  • A. BB&T
    BB&T was a major American regional bank headquartered in North Carolina that became part of Truist Financial following its merger with SunTrust.
  • B. Fifth Third Bank
    Fifth Third Bank is a major U.S. regional banking corporation offering retail, commercial, and financial services, primarily serving customers across the Midwest and Southeast.
  • C. Wells Fargo
    Wells Fargo is a large American multinational financial services company and one of the biggest banks in the United States.
  • D. U.S. Bank
    U.S. Bank is a major American financial services company and one of the largest commercial banks in the United States.
  • E. Bank of America
    Bank of America is one of the largest multinational banking and financial services corporations in the United States, offering a wide range of consumer, corporate, and investment banking products globally.
  • 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: SunTrust Banks
Triple: [Truist Financial, formedByMergerOf, SunTrust Banks]
Generated description
SunTrust Banks was a major American regional bank holding company based in the southeastern United States that later became part of Truist Financial.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: SunTrust Banks
Target entity description: SunTrust Banks was a major American regional bank holding company based in the southeastern United States that later became part of Truist Financial.
  • A. BB&T
    BB&T was a major American regional bank headquartered in North Carolina that became part of Truist Financial following its merger with SunTrust.
  • B. Fifth Third Bank
    Fifth Third Bank is a major U.S. regional banking corporation offering retail, commercial, and financial services, primarily serving customers across the Midwest and Southeast.
  • C. Wells Fargo
    Wells Fargo is a large American multinational financial services company and one of the biggest banks in the United States.
  • D. U.S. Bank
    U.S. Bank is a major American financial services company and one of the largest commercial banks in the United States.
  • E. Bank of America
    Bank of America is one of the largest multinational banking and financial services corporations in the United States, offering a wide range of consumer, corporate, and investment banking products globally.
  • 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_69aed9477e8c81908bcb862d2db55b1d completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af0325a82c8190849d8a828e2c7b44 completed March 9, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5961c2ad08190a1bb13bf040481a1 completed March 14, 2026, 5:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b596cb73ac81909f83daca406ad8c4 completed March 14, 2026, 5:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b59a9c386081909c21ad554d403bfc completed March 14, 2026, 5:27 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:45 p.m.