Triple
T7492322
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | US West |
E177033
|
entity |
| Predicate | predecessor |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Pacific Northwest Bell |
E647625
|
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: Pacific Northwest Bell | Statement: [US West, predecessor, Pacific Northwest Bell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Northwest Bell Context triple: [US West, predecessor, Pacific Northwest Bell]
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A.
Pacific Northwest Bell
chosen
Pacific Northwest Bell was a regional Bell System telephone company that provided telecommunications services in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, primarily Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
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B.
Pacific Bell
Pacific Bell was a major regional telephone company in the western United States, best known as a former Baby Bell providing local and long-distance telecommunications services.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
Cincinnati Bell
Cincinnati Bell is a regional telecommunications company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, providing phone, internet, and related services to residential and business customers.
- 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_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_69c84600d65481908518bc0d7ffcb373 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 9:20 p.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:43 p.m.