Triple
T673809
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Lucent Technologies |
E13034
|
entity |
| Predicate | predecessor |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object | AT&T Bell Laboratories (business portions) |
E2027
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: AT&T Bell Laboratories (business portions) | Statement: [Lucent Technologies, predecessor, AT&T Bell Laboratories (business portions)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: AT&T Bell Laboratories (business portions) Context triple: [Lucent Technologies, predecessor, AT&T Bell Laboratories (business portions)]
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A.
Bell Telephone Laboratories
chosen
Bell Telephone Laboratories was a pioneering American research and development organization renowned for groundbreaking innovations in telecommunications and electronics, including the invention of the transistor.
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B.
Telcordia Technologies
Telcordia Technologies is a telecommunications research and development company known for creating industry standards and software solutions for network planning, management, and operations.
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C.
Bell System
The Bell System was the historic, vertically integrated telephone monopoly in the United States, led by AT&T, that dominated telecommunications services and research for much of the 20th century.
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D.
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.
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E.
Western Electric
Western Electric was a major American electrical engineering and manufacturing company best known as the manufacturing arm of AT&T and a pioneer in telecommunications and sound technology.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a6374a189c81908f7bc0828e9ff382 |
completed | March 3, 2026, 1:20 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.