Triple

T686324
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cotton Bowl Classic E13290 entity
Predicate formerSponsor P18226 FINISHED
Object Southwestern Bell
Southwestern Bell was a major regional telephone company in the United States that later became part of AT&T through mergers and rebranding.
E89583 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: Southwestern Bell | Statement: [Cotton Bowl Classic, formerSponsor, Southwestern Bell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Southwestern Bell
Context triple: [Cotton Bowl Classic, formerSponsor, Southwestern Bell]
  • A. Bell Telephone Company
    Bell Telephone Company was the pioneering telecommunications firm established in the late 19th century that evolved into the core of the Bell System and laid the foundation for modern telephone service in North America.
  • B. 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.
  • 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.
  • D. BellSouth
    BellSouth was a major American telecommunications company, formerly one of the regional "Baby Bells" created after the breakup of AT&T, providing telephone and related services across the southeastern United States.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Southwestern Bell
Triple: [Cotton Bowl Classic, formerSponsor, Southwestern Bell]
Generated description
Southwestern Bell was a major regional telephone company in the United States that later became part of AT&T through mergers and rebranding.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Southwestern Bell
Target entity description: Southwestern Bell was a major regional telephone company in the United States that later became part of AT&T through mergers and rebranding.
  • A. Bell Telephone Company
    Bell Telephone Company was the pioneering telecommunications firm established in the late 19th century that evolved into the core of the Bell System and laid the foundation for modern telephone service in North America.
  • B. 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.
  • 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.
  • D. BellSouth
    BellSouth was a major American telecommunications company, formerly one of the regional "Baby Bells" created after the breakup of AT&T, providing telephone and related services across the southeastern United States.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69a4933e0f98819097d22766c49b61b8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a518e6348190b467c2fab3fd1f11 completed March 1, 2026, 8:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a654d806f08190a8e19f0918f23eb7 completed March 3, 2026, 3:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a65b3d6e60819084b3b1e75a5710be completed March 3, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a65bbdedb081909b10366eabca5f16 completed March 3, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.