Triple

T7674420
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Carlton Communications E173824 entity
Predicate held P3134 FINISHED
Object ITV Midlands franchise
The ITV Midlands franchise was the regional television broadcasting licence for the English Midlands within the ITV network, providing local programming and commercial TV services to that area.
E681203 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: ITV Midlands franchise | Statement: [Carlton Communications, held, ITV Midlands franchise]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: ITV Midlands franchise
Context triple: [Carlton Communications, held, ITV Midlands franchise]
  • A. ITV London weekday franchise
    The ITV London weekday franchise was the regional television service that broadcast ITV programming to the London area on weekdays, historically operated by companies such as Associated-Rediffusion and later Thames Television.
  • B. ITV Digital
    ITV Digital was a short-lived British digital terrestrial television service that collapsed in 2002 after financial difficulties, paving the way for its replacement by Freeview.
  • C. ITV North of England
    ITV North of England was a regional television service in the United Kingdom that provided ITV network programming to viewers in the northern part of England, primarily through the Granada Television franchise.
  • D. ITV
    ITV is a major British free-to-air television network and media company known for its popular entertainment, drama, and news programming.
  • E. ITV Studios
    ITV Studios is a major British television production and distribution company responsible for creating and selling a wide range of popular TV programs worldwide.
  • 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: ITV Midlands franchise
Triple: [Carlton Communications, held, ITV Midlands franchise]
Generated description
The ITV Midlands franchise was the regional television broadcasting licence for the English Midlands within the ITV network, providing local programming and commercial TV services to that area.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: ITV Midlands franchise
Target entity description: The ITV Midlands franchise was the regional television broadcasting licence for the English Midlands within the ITV network, providing local programming and commercial TV services to that area.
  • A. ITV London weekday franchise
    The ITV London weekday franchise was the regional television service that broadcast ITV programming to the London area on weekdays, historically operated by companies such as Associated-Rediffusion and later Thames Television.
  • B. ITV Digital
    ITV Digital was a short-lived British digital terrestrial television service that collapsed in 2002 after financial difficulties, paving the way for its replacement by Freeview.
  • C. ITV North of England
    ITV North of England was a regional television service in the United Kingdom that provided ITV network programming to viewers in the northern part of England, primarily through the Granada Television franchise.
  • D. ITV
    ITV is a major British free-to-air television network and media company known for its popular entertainment, drama, and news programming.
  • E. ITV Studios
    ITV Studios is a major British television production and distribution company responsible for creating and selling a wide range of popular TV programs worldwide.
  • 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_69c6995703e0819081de77361b602e78 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c701e1e530819086f49f63ba0b7b42 completed March 27, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8a234790c8190b1427f99b7f1e5ab completed March 29, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8a31b932c8190b8be20c92009210b completed March 29, 2026, 3:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8a3f3b02081909cfb61d34f97fe07 completed March 29, 2026, 4 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4 p.m.