Triple
T1555949
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Director of Central Intelligence |
E33204
|
entity |
| Predicate | positionHeldBy |
P8
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William E. Colby |
E27734
|
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: William E. Colby | Statement: [Director of Central Intelligence, positionHeldBy, William E. Colby]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William E. Colby Context triple: [Director of Central Intelligence, positionHeldBy, William E. Colby]
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A.
William Colby
chosen
William Colby was an American intelligence officer who became Director of Central Intelligence, overseeing the CIA during a turbulent period in the 1970s.
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B.
Richard Helms
Richard Helms was a prominent American intelligence officer who served as Director of Central Intelligence during the Cold War.
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C.
William J. Casey
William J. Casey was an American lawyer, intelligence officer, and politician who served as Director of Central Intelligence under President Ronald Reagan, playing a key role in shaping U.S. Cold War intelligence strategy.
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D.
Frank Wisner
Frank Wisner was a prominent American intelligence officer who became a key architect of early U.S. covert operations during and after World War II.
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E.
James Hugh Angleton
James Hugh Angleton was the father of longtime CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton and a U.S. intelligence-linked businessman who worked in Italy before and during World War II.
- 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_69a885ef9cf48190b0af0f5ce3d02231 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aa620eed9081908921530fd60656b7 |
completed | March 6, 2026, 5:11 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ad608813548190b156fb9470ed3239 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 11:42 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.