Triple

T1240978
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lebanese Civil War E26655 entity
Predicate notableAttack P18213 FINISHED
Object 1983 Beirut barracks bombings
The 1983 Beirut barracks bombings were twin suicide truck attacks that devastated U.S. and French military barracks in Beirut, killing hundreds of peacekeeping troops and dramatically reshaping international involvement in the Lebanese Civil War.
E146038 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: 1983 Beirut barracks bombings | Statement: [Lebanese Civil War, notableAttack, 1983 Beirut barracks bombings]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1983 Beirut barracks bombings
Context triple: [Lebanese Civil War, notableAttack, 1983 Beirut barracks bombings]
  • A. 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut
    The 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut was a major suicide truck bombing that devastated the U.S. diplomatic mission in Lebanon, killing dozens and marking one of the earliest large-scale attacks against American targets in the Middle East.
  • B. Black September conflict
    The Black September conflict was a violent confrontation in 1970–1971 between the Jordanian government and Palestinian armed organizations that reshaped the Palestinian resistance movement and regional politics in the Middle East.
  • C. 1998 United States embassy bombings
    The 1998 United States embassy bombings were coordinated truck bomb attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed hundreds of people and marked one of al-Qaeda’s earliest large-scale international terrorist operations.
  • D. McGurk's Bar bombing
    The McGurk's Bar bombing was a 1971 loyalist terrorist attack in Belfast in which a bomb exploded in a Catholic pub, killing 15 civilians and becoming one of the deadliest single incidents of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
  • E. Cedar Revolution
    The Cedar Revolution was a series of massive, largely peaceful protests in Lebanon in 2005 that demanded the end of Syrian military and political influence and led to the withdrawal of Syrian troops from the country.
  • 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: 1983 Beirut barracks bombings
Triple: [Lebanese Civil War, notableAttack, 1983 Beirut barracks bombings]
Generated description
The 1983 Beirut barracks bombings were twin suicide truck attacks that devastated U.S. and French military barracks in Beirut, killing hundreds of peacekeeping troops and dramatically reshaping international involvement in the Lebanese Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1983 Beirut barracks bombings
Target entity description: The 1983 Beirut barracks bombings were twin suicide truck attacks that devastated U.S. and French military barracks in Beirut, killing hundreds of peacekeeping troops and dramatically reshaping international involvement in the Lebanese Civil War.
  • A. 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut
    The 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut was a major suicide truck bombing that devastated the U.S. diplomatic mission in Lebanon, killing dozens and marking one of the earliest large-scale attacks against American targets in the Middle East.
  • B. Black September conflict
    The Black September conflict was a violent confrontation in 1970–1971 between the Jordanian government and Palestinian armed organizations that reshaped the Palestinian resistance movement and regional politics in the Middle East.
  • C. 1998 United States embassy bombings
    The 1998 United States embassy bombings were coordinated truck bomb attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed hundreds of people and marked one of al-Qaeda’s earliest large-scale international terrorist operations.
  • D. McGurk's Bar bombing
    The McGurk's Bar bombing was a 1971 loyalist terrorist attack in Belfast in which a bomb exploded in a Catholic pub, killing 15 civilians and becoming one of the deadliest single incidents of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
  • E. Cedar Revolution
    The Cedar Revolution was a series of massive, largely peaceful protests in Lebanon in 2005 that demanded the end of Syrian military and political influence and led to the withdrawal of Syrian troops from the country.
  • 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_69a4948689d08190b3a4a3f388c02148 completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bf4343e48190a232abd8475880a0 completed March 1, 2026, 10:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aca2ed73248190b03fd6085dec9d8c completed March 7, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aca3752a3c81908bd6d9744ad5f5a2 completed March 7, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aca3e44bf481908c5726adddc4b428 completed March 7, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.