Triple

T673795
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lucent Technologies E13034 entity
Predicate product P490 FINISHED
Object 5ESS switch
The 5ESS switch is a digital telecommunications switching system widely deployed by telephone companies to route voice and data traffic in public switched telephone networks.
 E83730 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: 5ESS switch | Statement: [Lucent Technologies, product, 5ESS switch]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: 5ESS switch
Context triple: [Lucent Technologies, product, 5ESS switch]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Siemens SD660
    Siemens SD660 is a model of light rail vehicle built by Siemens for use in modern urban transit systems.
  • C. SINTRAN
    SINTRAN is a real-time, multitasking operating system developed by Norsk Data for its NORD series of minicomputers.
  • D. Opsware
    Opsware was a data center automation and IT infrastructure management software company, best known for being co-founded by Marc Andreessen and later acquired by Hewlett-Packard.
  • E. Arista Nashville
    Arista Nashville is a country music record label based in Nashville, Tennessee, known for signing and promoting prominent country artists.
  • 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: 5ESS switch
Triple: [Lucent Technologies, product, 5ESS switch]
Generated description
The 5ESS switch is a digital telecommunications switching system widely deployed by telephone companies to route voice and data traffic in public switched telephone networks.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: 5ESS switch
Target entity description: The 5ESS switch is a digital telecommunications switching system widely deployed by telephone companies to route voice and data traffic in public switched telephone networks.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Siemens SD660
    Siemens SD660 is a model of light rail vehicle built by Siemens for use in modern urban transit systems.
  • C. SINTRAN
    SINTRAN is a real-time, multitasking operating system developed by Norsk Data for its NORD series of minicomputers.
  • D. Opsware
    Opsware was a data center automation and IT infrastructure management software company, best known for being co-founded by Marc Andreessen and later acquired by Hewlett-Packard.
  • E. Arista Nashville
    Arista Nashville is a country music record label based in Nashville, Tennessee, known for signing and promoting prominent country artists.
  • 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_69a4933d3bf88190972041cd8cf143b9 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a02537d08190942ee5fc8c50610a completed March 1, 2026, 8:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5c39f3e1481908f395cdb19cfd2fc completed March 2, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a5c42d4a0481908af4a71b4625c130 completed March 2, 2026, 5:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5ce16df088190850a3b851558eba8 completed March 2, 2026, 5:51 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.