Triple
T9029064
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sylvania Electric Products |
E216121
|
entity |
| Predicate | acquiredBy |
P347
|
FINISHED |
| Object | General Telephone & Electronics Corporation |
E216119
|
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: General Telephone & Electronics Corporation | Statement: [Sylvania Electric Products, acquiredBy, General Telephone & Electronics Corporation]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: General Telephone & Electronics Corporation Context triple: [Sylvania Electric Products, acquiredBy, General Telephone & Electronics Corporation]
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A.
General Telephone & Electronics Corporation
chosen
General Telephone & Electronics Corporation was a major American telecommunications company that operated one of the largest independent telephone networks in the United States before eventually merging into Verizon.
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B.
ITT Corporation
ITT Corporation is a diversified American manufacturing and engineering company historically known for its involvement in telecommunications, defense, and industrial products.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., better known globally by its brand name Panasonic, is a major Japanese multinational electronics manufacturer and technology company.
- 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_69ca83a5fa88819088144801b4dd7245 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cc6a9bcb508190b58751f1772407d4 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 12:45 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cfeb83e8988190bf29baa1aff11ac0 |
completed | April 3, 2026, 4:32 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:08 p.m.