Triple

T5463429
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Electric Tower E122647 entity
Predicate originalOwner P347 FINISHED
Object Buffalo General Electric Company
Buffalo General Electric Company was a regional electric utility based in Buffalo, New York, that played a key role in the early development and distribution of electrical power in the area.
E521336 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: Buffalo General Electric Company | Statement: [Electric Tower, originalOwner, Buffalo General Electric Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Buffalo General Electric Company
Context triple: [Electric Tower, originalOwner, Buffalo General Electric Company]
  • A. Thomson-Houston Electric Company
    Thomson-Houston Electric Company was a major late-19th-century American electrical manufacturing firm that became a key predecessor to General Electric.
  • B. Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft
    Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) was a major German electrical equipment and engineering company that became a pioneering force in industrial design, technology, and consumer appliances in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
  • C. Northern Electric
    Northern Electric was a Canadian telecommunications and electrical equipment manufacturer that later evolved into Northern Telecom (Nortel), a major global telecom company.
  • D. Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Westinghouse Electric Corporation was a major American manufacturing and broadcasting conglomerate known for its pioneering role in electrical equipment and its ownership of media assets such as NBC.
  • E. Continental Edison Company
    Continental Edison Company was an early electrical engineering firm associated with Thomas Edison that employed pioneering inventor Nikola Tesla during his early career.
  • 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: Buffalo General Electric Company
Triple: [Electric Tower, originalOwner, Buffalo General Electric Company]
Generated description
Buffalo General Electric Company was a regional electric utility based in Buffalo, New York, that played a key role in the early development and distribution of electrical power in the area.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Buffalo General Electric Company
Target entity description: Buffalo General Electric Company was a regional electric utility based in Buffalo, New York, that played a key role in the early development and distribution of electrical power in the area.
  • A. Thomson-Houston Electric Company
    Thomson-Houston Electric Company was a major late-19th-century American electrical manufacturing firm that became a key predecessor to General Electric.
  • B. Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft
    Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) was a major German electrical equipment and engineering company that became a pioneering force in industrial design, technology, and consumer appliances in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
  • C. Northern Electric
    Northern Electric was a Canadian telecommunications and electrical equipment manufacturer that later evolved into Northern Telecom (Nortel), a major global telecom company.
  • D. Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Westinghouse Electric Corporation was a major American manufacturing and broadcasting conglomerate known for its pioneering role in electrical equipment and its ownership of media assets such as NBC.
  • E. Continental Edison Company
    Continental Edison Company was an early electrical engineering firm associated with Thomas Edison that employed pioneering inventor Nikola Tesla during his early career.
  • 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_69bd4643f16081908d7f29e08096115a completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd92033dd08190a90bcae6b9f149d3 completed March 20, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf415146988190823ab77b091231a1 completed March 22, 2026, 1:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf43a3f6f88190b3ea0c6760b498d1 completed March 22, 2026, 1:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf4414beec8190a390481d802402b1 completed March 22, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:08 p.m.