Triple
T884367
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Edward S. Rogers Sr. |
E19096
|
entity |
| Predicate | founded |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Rogers Vacuum Tube Company
Rogers Vacuum Tube Company was an early Canadian electronics firm best known for pioneering batteryless radio technology and advancing vacuum tube development in the 1920s.
|
E104218
|
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: Rogers Vacuum Tube Company | Statement: [Edward S. Rogers Sr., founded, Rogers Vacuum Tube Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rogers Vacuum Tube Company Context triple: [Edward S. Rogers Sr., founded, Rogers Vacuum Tube Company]
-
A.
De Forest Radio Telephone Company
De Forest Radio Telephone Company was an early 20th-century American firm that developed and commercialized pioneering radio and wireless telephony technologies.
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B.
Philco
Philco was a pioneering American electronics manufacturer best known for its radios, televisions, and early computer and semiconductor technologies.
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C.
Radio Corporation of America
Radio Corporation of America was a major American electronics and communications conglomerate best known for pioneering radio and television technology and broadcasting throughout the 20th century.
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D.
Western Electric
Western Electric was a major American electrical engineering and manufacturing company best known as the manufacturing arm of AT&T and a pioneer in telecommunications and sound technology.
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E.
Edison Manufacturing Company
Edison Manufacturing Company was an early American film production and equipment company created by inventor Thomas Edison that played a key role in the birth of the motion picture industry.
- 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: Rogers Vacuum Tube Company Triple: [Edward S. Rogers Sr., founded, Rogers Vacuum Tube Company]
Generated description
Rogers Vacuum Tube Company was an early Canadian electronics firm best known for pioneering batteryless radio technology and advancing vacuum tube development in the 1920s.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rogers Vacuum Tube Company Target entity description: Rogers Vacuum Tube Company was an early Canadian electronics firm best known for pioneering batteryless radio technology and advancing vacuum tube development in the 1920s.
-
A.
De Forest Radio Telephone Company
De Forest Radio Telephone Company was an early 20th-century American firm that developed and commercialized pioneering radio and wireless telephony technologies.
-
B.
Philco
Philco was a pioneering American electronics manufacturer best known for its radios, televisions, and early computer and semiconductor technologies.
-
C.
Radio Corporation of America
Radio Corporation of America was a major American electronics and communications conglomerate best known for pioneering radio and television technology and broadcasting throughout the 20th century.
-
D.
Western Electric
Western Electric was a major American electrical engineering and manufacturing company best known as the manufacturing arm of AT&T and a pioneer in telecommunications and sound technology.
-
E.
Edison Manufacturing Company
Edison Manufacturing Company was an early American film production and equipment company created by inventor Thomas Edison that played a key role in the birth of the motion picture industry.
- 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_69a4939c32488190a7ccd41cf0abb22b |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4ace495348190aec66f35ea90bc89 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 9:17 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a7b85a37648190b20b12c544a85bda |
completed | March 4, 2026, 4:43 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a7bc1c418081909a7a91692bd46057 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 4:59 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a7bd094df08190b9ea6c350b3abb3d |
completed | March 4, 2026, 5:03 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.