Triple

T4848730
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject ITT Corporation E108357 entity
Predicate hasSuccessor P78 FINISHED
Object ITT Inc.
ITT Inc. is a diversified American manufacturing company that produces engineered components and customized technology solutions for the transportation, industrial, and energy markets.
 E108357 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: ITT Inc. | Statement: [ITT Corporation, hasSuccessor, ITT Inc.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: ITT Inc.
Context triple: [ITT Corporation, hasSuccessor, ITT Inc.]
  • A. ITT Corporation
    ITT Corporation is a diversified American manufacturing and engineering company historically known for its involvement in telecommunications, defense, and industrial products.
  • B. Lucent Technologies
    Lucent Technologies was a major American telecommunications equipment company, spun off from AT&T, known for its Bell Labs research arm and contributions to networking and communications technology.
  • 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.
  • D. AT&T
    AT&T is a major American telecommunications conglomerate known for providing wireless, internet, and media services nationwide.
  • E. Sprint Corporation
    Sprint Corporation was a major American telecommunications company that provided wireless and wireline services nationwide before merging with T-Mobile US.
  • 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: ITT Inc.
Triple: [ITT Corporation, hasSuccessor, ITT Inc.]
Generated description
ITT Inc. is a diversified American manufacturing company that produces engineered components and customized technology solutions for the transportation, industrial, and energy markets.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: ITT Inc.
Target entity description: ITT Inc. is a diversified American manufacturing company that produces engineered components and customized technology solutions for the transportation, industrial, and energy markets.
  • A. ITT Corporation chosen
    ITT Corporation is a diversified American manufacturing and engineering company historically known for its involvement in telecommunications, defense, and industrial products.
  • B. Lucent Technologies
    Lucent Technologies was a major American telecommunications equipment company, spun off from AT&T, known for its Bell Labs research arm and contributions to networking and communications technology.
  • 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.
  • D. AT&T
    AT&T is a major American telecommunications conglomerate known for providing wireless, internet, and media services nationwide.
  • E. Sprint Corporation
    Sprint Corporation was a major American telecommunications company that provided wireless and wireline services nationwide before merging with T-Mobile US.
  • 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_69bd4409b264819085ab855f3eb5381a completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d1c5594819094fe021d7717032d completed March 20, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be5cdafb3481908594ae883c6e9872 completed March 21, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be5d4f2f908190b305996875f1f956 completed March 21, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be5dcbb58c8190bbcf75c570720ad6 completed March 21, 2026, 8:58 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:25 p.m.