Triple

T1706581
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Reagan Doctrine E36884 entity
Predicate hasEffect P9 FINISHED
Object Iran–Contra affair
The Iran–Contra affair was a major 1980s U.S. political scandal in which senior officials secretly facilitated arms sales to Iran and diverted the proceeds to fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua, circumventing congressional restrictions.
E192307 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: Iran–Contra affair | Statement: [Reagan Doctrine, hasEffect, Iran–Contra affair]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Iran–Contra affair
Context triple: [Reagan Doctrine, hasEffect, Iran–Contra affair]
  • A. Mayaguez incident
    The Mayaguez incident was a 1975 confrontation between the United States and Cambodia in which U.S. forces attempted to rescue the crew of the seized American merchant ship SS Mayaguez, often regarded as one of the last official battles of the Vietnam War era.
  • B. Operation Just Cause
    Operation Just Cause was the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama aimed at deposing military leader Manuel Noriega and securing American strategic interests in the region.
  • C. Watergate scandal
    The Watergate scandal was a major 1970s American political scandal involving the Nixon administration’s attempts to cover up a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, ultimately leading to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
  • D. Reagan Doctrine
    The Reagan Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy strategy in the 1980s that aimed to roll back Soviet influence by providing support to anti-communist resistance movements around the world.
  • E. Calas affair
    The Calas affair was an 18th-century French legal case involving the wrongful execution of Protestant merchant Jean Calas, which became a symbol of religious intolerance and judicial injustice and inspired Voltaire’s campaign for civil rights and legal reform.
  • 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: Iran–Contra affair
Triple: [Reagan Doctrine, hasEffect, Iran–Contra affair]
Generated description
The Iran–Contra affair was a major 1980s U.S. political scandal in which senior officials secretly facilitated arms sales to Iran and diverted the proceeds to fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua, circumventing congressional restrictions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Iran–Contra affair
Target entity description: The Iran–Contra affair was a major 1980s U.S. political scandal in which senior officials secretly facilitated arms sales to Iran and diverted the proceeds to fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua, circumventing congressional restrictions.
  • A. Mayaguez incident
    The Mayaguez incident was a 1975 confrontation between the United States and Cambodia in which U.S. forces attempted to rescue the crew of the seized American merchant ship SS Mayaguez, often regarded as one of the last official battles of the Vietnam War era.
  • B. Operation Just Cause
    Operation Just Cause was the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama aimed at deposing military leader Manuel Noriega and securing American strategic interests in the region.
  • C. Watergate scandal
    The Watergate scandal was a major 1970s American political scandal involving the Nixon administration’s attempts to cover up a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, ultimately leading to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
  • D. Reagan Doctrine
    The Reagan Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy strategy in the 1980s that aimed to roll back Soviet influence by providing support to anti-communist resistance movements around the world.
  • E. Calas affair
    The Calas affair was an 18th-century French legal case involving the wrongful execution of Protestant merchant Jean Calas, which became a symbol of religious intolerance and judicial injustice and inspired Voltaire’s campaign for civil rights and legal reform.
  • 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_69a88617439c819094ffb5d16a0f6307 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa62f52ea48190a176eb499f946301 completed March 6, 2026, 5:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad8ad3b9c481909f83f7045789e49d completed March 8, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad957778a0819080f7fee35f5d8ed5 completed March 8, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad97aa308c81909f245a2133fc471b completed March 8, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:30 p.m.