Triple

T14509099
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks E340348 entity
Predicate featuresPerson P2308 FINISHED
Object James Ball
James Ball is a British journalist and former WikiLeaks staffer known for his investigative reporting on transparency, surveillance, and digital politics.
E1102912 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: James Ball | Statement: [We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, featuresPerson, James Ball]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Ball
Context triple: [We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, featuresPerson, James Ball]
  • A. Phil Beauman
    Phil Beauman is an American comedy writer and producer best known for his work on parody films and television, including contributions to the hit spoof franchise "Scary Movie."
  • B. Philip Giffin
    Philip Giffin is a film and television composer known for his work on the series "Boomtown."
  • C. John Paddock
    John Paddock was an archaeologist known for his work on Mesoamerican sites, including significant excavations at the Zapotec site of Lambityeco in Oaxaca, Mexico.
  • D. Ben Salisbury
    Ben Salisbury is a British composer best known for his atmospheric film and television scores, including frequent collaborations with director Alex Garland.
  • E. Jon Sopel
    Jon Sopel is a British journalist and broadcaster best known for his work as a BBC correspondent and news presenter.
  • 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: James Ball
Triple: [We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, featuresPerson, James Ball]
Generated description
James Ball is a British journalist and former WikiLeaks staffer known for his investigative reporting on transparency, surveillance, and digital politics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Ball
Target entity description: James Ball is a British journalist and former WikiLeaks staffer known for his investigative reporting on transparency, surveillance, and digital politics.
  • A. Phil Beauman
    Phil Beauman is an American comedy writer and producer best known for his work on parody films and television, including contributions to the hit spoof franchise "Scary Movie."
  • B. Philip Giffin
    Philip Giffin is a film and television composer known for his work on the series "Boomtown."
  • C. John Paddock
    John Paddock was an archaeologist known for his work on Mesoamerican sites, including significant excavations at the Zapotec site of Lambityeco in Oaxaca, Mexico.
  • D. Ben Salisbury
    Ben Salisbury is a British composer best known for his atmospheric film and television scores, including frequent collaborations with director Alex Garland.
  • E. Jon Sopel
    Jon Sopel is a British journalist and broadcaster best known for his work as a BBC correspondent and news presenter.
  • 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_69d822d9c0408190b9a2b3643e58bb4d completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de94e5b7b48190878be271840c265b completed April 14, 2026, 7:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd6da26a308190bf86ed1edbe8d57e completed May 8, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd71ef47848190bf10dbedb72304e6 completed May 8, 2026, 5:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd729c87dc81909d9149928c70cb00 completed May 8, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:21 a.m.