Triple

T7492227
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Regional Bell Operating Companies E177031 entity
Predicate member P10 FINISHED
Object Bell Atlantic
Bell Atlantic was a major U.S. telecommunications company formed after the breakup of AT&T, which later merged with GTE to become Verizon Communications.
 E671763 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: Bell Atlantic | Statement: [Regional Bell Operating Companies, member, Bell Atlantic]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bell Atlantic
Context triple: [Regional Bell Operating Companies, member, Bell Atlantic]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Ameritech
    Ameritech was a regional telecommunications company formed after the breakup of AT&T’s Bell System, serving the Midwestern United States with local and long-distance phone services.
  • C. AT&T
    AT&T is a major American telecommunications conglomerate known for providing wireless, internet, and media services nationwide.
  • D. Alltel
    Alltel was a major American wireless telecommunications company that provided mobile phone services across numerous U.S. states before being largely acquired by Verizon Wireless.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Bell Atlantic
Triple: [Regional Bell Operating Companies, member, Bell Atlantic]
Generated description
Bell Atlantic was a major U.S. telecommunications company formed after the breakup of AT&T, which later merged with GTE to become Verizon Communications.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bell Atlantic
Target entity description: Bell Atlantic was a major U.S. telecommunications company formed after the breakup of AT&T, which later merged with GTE to become Verizon Communications.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Ameritech
    Ameritech was a regional telecommunications company formed after the breakup of AT&T’s Bell System, serving the Midwestern United States with local and long-distance phone services.
  • C. AT&T
    AT&T is a major American telecommunications conglomerate known for providing wireless, internet, and media services nationwide.
  • D. Alltel
    Alltel was a major American wireless telecommunications company that provided mobile phone services across numerous U.S. states before being largely acquired by Verizon Wireless.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69c69f2583808190bd1a4936c42a5815 completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f5784c908190b701959daf082625 completed March 27, 2026, 9:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c84eefbcec8190bef282452aaf5515 completed March 28, 2026, 9:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c850b5b77c8190abab52a634a918f7 completed March 28, 2026, 10:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8510c66d8819095f442f6acf52e32 completed March 28, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:43 p.m.