Triple

T9296
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject De Forest Radio Telephone Company E186 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object audion vacuum tube
The audion vacuum tube is an early electronic amplifying device invented by Lee de Forest that enabled long-distance radio communication and laid the groundwork for modern electronics.
E1029 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: audion vacuum tube | Statement: [De Forest Radio Telephone Company, associatedWith, audion vacuum tube]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: audion vacuum tube
Context triple: [De Forest Radio Telephone Company, associatedWith, audion vacuum tube]
  • A. harmonic analyzer
    A harmonic analyzer is a mechanical or electrical device used to decompose complex periodic signals into their constituent sinusoidal components for analysis.
  • B. superheterodyne receiver
    The superheterodyne receiver is a radio receiver architecture that improves selectivity and sensitivity by converting incoming radio signals to a fixed intermediate frequency before final detection.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Bolt Beranek and Newman
    Bolt Beranek and Newman was a pioneering American research and engineering firm best known for its foundational role in developing the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern internet.
  • E. Differential analyzer
    The Differential Analyzer is an early analog mechanical computer designed to solve differential equations using interconnected rotating shafts and wheels.
  • 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: audion vacuum tube
Triple: [De Forest Radio Telephone Company, associatedWith, audion vacuum tube]
Generated description
The audion vacuum tube is an early electronic amplifying device invented by Lee de Forest that enabled long-distance radio communication and laid the groundwork for modern electronics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: audion vacuum tube
Target entity description: The audion vacuum tube is an early electronic amplifying device invented by Lee de Forest that enabled long-distance radio communication and laid the groundwork for modern electronics.
  • A. harmonic analyzer
    A harmonic analyzer is a mechanical or electrical device used to decompose complex periodic signals into their constituent sinusoidal components for analysis.
  • B. superheterodyne receiver
    The superheterodyne receiver is a radio receiver architecture that improves selectivity and sensitivity by converting incoming radio signals to a fixed intermediate frequency before final detection.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Bolt Beranek and Newman
    Bolt Beranek and Newman was a pioneering American research and engineering firm best known for its foundational role in developing the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern internet.
  • E. Differential analyzer
    The Differential Analyzer is an early analog mechanical computer designed to solve differential equations using interconnected rotating shafts and wheels.
  • 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_69a23bb612708190b09f25385e4b63d1 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a23ff2f0508190806663ab2463cd41 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a243c87d988190a9d0649c4a04c7b7 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2464617148190ae1b5e316dd37efe completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a246bff58481908eebdbcb88e1ff78 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:37 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 12:54 a.m.