Triple
T7866837
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ameritech |
E182636
|
entity |
| Predicate | formedFrom |
P402
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Bell System divestiture |
E177030
|
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: Bell System divestiture | Statement: [Ameritech, formedFrom, Bell System divestiture]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bell System divestiture Context triple: [Ameritech, formedFrom, Bell System divestiture]
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A.
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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B.
Telecommunications Act of 1996
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is a major U.S. federal law that overhauled communications regulation to promote competition and deregulation in broadcasting, cable, and telephone services, including the emerging internet.
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C.
United States v. AT&T
chosen
United States v. AT&T was a landmark antitrust lawsuit in which the U.S. government forced the breakup of the Bell System telecommunications monopoly in the early 1980s.
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D.
privatisation of British Telecom
The privatisation of British Telecom was a landmark 1984 policy in the UK that transformed the state-owned telecommunications provider into a publicly traded company, symbolizing the broader shift toward free-market reforms under Margaret Thatcher.
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E.
AT&T avoided immediate antitrust dissolution
AT&T avoided immediate antitrust dissolution refers to the outcome of the 1913 Kingsbury Commitment, which allowed AT&T to continue operating as a dominant telecommunications company under agreed regulatory constraints instead of being broken up at that time.
- 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_69ca82894d9081908a832bfce71a4714 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb38464274819080f182b53783fa84 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 2:58 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cb5b5908a88190bc00f0d6dbde0b58 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 5:27 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:54 p.m.