Triple
T20878028
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Winter Hill Gang |
E514071
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableLeaderRole |
P18663
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Whitey Bulger served as de facto boss for years |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
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: Whitey Bulger served as de facto boss for years | Statement: [Winter Hill Gang, notableLeaderRole, Whitey Bulger served as de facto boss for years]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whitey Bulger served as de facto boss for years Context triple: [Winter Hill Gang, notableLeaderRole, Whitey Bulger served as de facto boss for years]
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A.
James "Whitey" Bulger
chosen
James "Whitey" Bulger was a notorious Boston mob boss and longtime FBI informant whose violent criminal career and eventual capture made him one of the most infamous gangsters in American history.
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B.
Lawrence Bulger
Lawrence Bulger was an Irish rugby union international and sportsman active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Bulger
Bulger is a surname most notably associated with former NFL quarterback Marc Bulger and several other prominent American figures.
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D.
FBI Top Echelon Informant Program (through Whitey Bulger)
The FBI Top Echelon Informant Program, as exemplified by its relationship with Boston mobster Whitey Bulger, was a controversial initiative that recruited high-level criminals as informants, often allowing them to continue serious crimes in exchange for intelligence on rival organizations.
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E.
Buffalo crime family
The Buffalo crime family is an Italian-American Mafia organization based in Buffalo, New York, historically involved in organized crime activities across Western New York and Southern Ontario.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e0b4f733f081908a401c0b7beb0b9f |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6c6775f108190a79cd5e8c31cecf6 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 12:36 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:45 p.m.