Triple
T9002448
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Nippon Electric Company |
E215067
|
entity |
| Predicate | collaboratedWith |
P435
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Western Electric Company |
E11865
|
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: Western Electric Company | Statement: [Nippon Electric Company, collaboratedWith, Western Electric Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Electric Company Context triple: [Nippon Electric Company, collaboratedWith, Western Electric Company]
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A.
Western Electric
chosen
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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B.
Bell Telephone Company
Bell Telephone Company was the pioneering telecommunications firm established in the late 19th century that evolved into the core of the Bell System and laid the foundation for modern telephone service in North America.
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C.
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) is a major American telecommunications corporation historically known for its nationwide telephone service monopoly and significant contributions to communications technology.
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D.
General Telephone Corporation
General Telephone Corporation was a major independent U.S. telephone company that later became part of GTE, one of the largest telecommunications providers before its merger into Verizon.
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E.
Brown Telephone Company
Brown Telephone Company was an early regional telephone service provider that eventually evolved into what became Sprint Corporation.
- 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_69ca83a12d648190b1e4fe11e8a31890 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cc6957bd5481908ce74f32f8d197de |
completed | April 1, 2026, 12:39 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cfdb9741dc8190bec985da8913937c |
completed | April 3, 2026, 3:24 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:05 p.m.