Triple

T18905955
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco E462462 entity
Predicate notableCharacter P1481 FINISHED
Object Ted Forstmann
Ted Forstmann was a prominent American financier and co-founder of the private equity firm Forstmann Little & Company, known for his influential role in the leveraged buyout boom of the 1980s and his outspoken criticism of excessive debt in corporate takeovers.
E1348861 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: Ted Forstmann | Statement: [Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, notableCharacter, Ted Forstmann]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ted Forstmann
Context triple: [Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, notableCharacter, Ted Forstmann]
  • A. Jonathan Goldsmith
    Jonathan Goldsmith is a Canadian composer best known for his film and television scores.
  • B. Morris Levy
    Morris Levy was an influential and controversial American music industry executive and record label owner known for his role in the rise of rock and roll and for his alleged ties to organized crime.
  • C. Bernie Brillstein
    Bernie Brillstein was a prominent American talent manager and television and film producer known for guiding the careers of major comedians and helping develop influential shows like Saturday Night Live.
  • D. Joe Masteroff
    Joe Masteroff was an American playwright and librettist best known for writing the book for the musical "Cabaret."
  • E. Bob Perelman
    Bob Perelman is an American poet and critic associated with the Language poetry movement, known for his experimental style and influential essays on contemporary poetics.
  • 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: Ted Forstmann
Triple: [Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, notableCharacter, Ted Forstmann]
Generated description
Ted Forstmann was a prominent American financier and co-founder of the private equity firm Forstmann Little & Company, known for his influential role in the leveraged buyout boom of the 1980s and his outspoken criticism of excessive debt in corporate takeovers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ted Forstmann
Target entity description: Ted Forstmann was a prominent American financier and co-founder of the private equity firm Forstmann Little & Company, known for his influential role in the leveraged buyout boom of the 1980s and his outspoken criticism of excessive debt in corporate takeovers.
  • A. Jonathan Goldsmith
    Jonathan Goldsmith is a Canadian composer best known for his film and television scores.
  • B. Morris Levy
    Morris Levy was an influential and controversial American music industry executive and record label owner known for his role in the rise of rock and roll and for his alleged ties to organized crime.
  • C. Bernie Brillstein
    Bernie Brillstein was a prominent American talent manager and television and film producer known for guiding the careers of major comedians and helping develop influential shows like Saturday Night Live.
  • D. Joe Masteroff
    Joe Masteroff was an American playwright and librettist best known for writing the book for the musical "Cabaret."
  • E. Bob Perelman
    Bob Perelman is an American poet and critic associated with the Language poetry movement, known for his experimental style and influential essays on contemporary poetics.
  • 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_69d8dcfd05bc819088903cca13cc2846 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5c52cc9cc8190ac489d36e51693c8 completed April 20, 2026, 6:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0582bf4f9481908098c8d405225553 completed May 14, 2026, 8:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05899f7a008190a9b0324f403f09ac completed May 14, 2026, 8:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a058a1028288190b9fddb9b6b123651 completed May 14, 2026, 8:38 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:58 a.m.