Triple

T9029160
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject WorldCom, Inc. E216124 entity
Predicate acquired P2511 FINISHED
Object MFS Communications Company, Inc.
MFS Communications Company, Inc. was a competitive local exchange carrier and telecommunications company that became notable in the 1990s for its fiber-optic networks before being acquired by WorldCom.
 E773498 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: MFS Communications Company, Inc. | Statement: [WorldCom, Inc., acquired, MFS Communications Company, Inc.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: MFS Communications Company, Inc.
Context triple: [WorldCom, Inc., acquired, MFS Communications Company, Inc.]
  • A. Mosaic Communications Corporation
    Mosaic Communications Corporation was the original name of the company that became Netscape Communications, an early pioneer in commercial web browser development.
  • B. Associated Communications Corporation
    Associated Communications Corporation was a media holding company that owned and operated television broadcasting assets, including the Associated Television network.
  • C. Mercury Communications
    Mercury Communications was a British telecommunications company that operated as a major competitor to British Telecom in the late 20th century.
  • D. United Telecommunications
    United Telecommunications was a major American telecommunications company that evolved through mergers and rebranding into what became Sprint Corporation.
  • E. Amati Communications Corporation
    Amati Communications Corporation was a pioneering telecommunications company known for developing early high-speed DSL technologies.
  • 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: MFS Communications Company, Inc.
Triple: [WorldCom, Inc., acquired, MFS Communications Company, Inc.]
Generated description
MFS Communications Company, Inc. was a competitive local exchange carrier and telecommunications company that became notable in the 1990s for its fiber-optic networks before being acquired by WorldCom.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: MFS Communications Company, Inc.
Target entity description: MFS Communications Company, Inc. was a competitive local exchange carrier and telecommunications company that became notable in the 1990s for its fiber-optic networks before being acquired by WorldCom.
  • A. Mosaic Communications Corporation
    Mosaic Communications Corporation was the original name of the company that became Netscape Communications, an early pioneer in commercial web browser development.
  • B. Associated Communications Corporation
    Associated Communications Corporation was a media holding company that owned and operated television broadcasting assets, including the Associated Television network.
  • C. Mercury Communications
    Mercury Communications was a British telecommunications company that operated as a major competitor to British Telecom in the late 20th century.
  • D. United Telecommunications
    United Telecommunications was a major American telecommunications company that evolved through mergers and rebranding into what became Sprint Corporation.
  • E. Amati Communications Corporation
    Amati Communications Corporation was a pioneering telecommunications company known for developing early high-speed DSL technologies.
  • 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_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_69cfdbc289648190834031537c8ce130 completed April 3, 2026, 3:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfde57a18c8190b4b8c8d2f521bd2c completed April 3, 2026, 3:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfdec619d081909fd6b268f4ce06b9 completed April 3, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:08 p.m.