Triple

T242027
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Deep Throat E4950 entity
Predicate identityPreviouslyKnownBy P39 FINISHED
Object Ben Bradlee
Ben Bradlee was a prominent American journalist and longtime executive editor of The Washington Post, best known for overseeing the paper’s investigative reporting on the Watergate scandal.
E34000 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: Ben Bradlee | Statement: [Deep Throat, identityPreviouslyKnownBy, Ben Bradlee]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Bradlee
Context triple: [Deep Throat, identityPreviouslyKnownBy, Ben Bradlee]
  • A. Carl Bernstein
    Carl Bernstein is an American investigative journalist best known for his reporting with Bob Woodward that helped uncover the Watergate scandal and led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
  • B. A. G. Sulzberger
    A. G. Sulzberger is an American journalist and media executive who serves as chairman and publisher of The New York Times Company.
  • C. Bob Woodward
    Bob Woodward is an American investigative journalist and author best known for his reporting on the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post, which helped lead to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
  • D. Jon Postel
    Jon Postel was an American computer scientist and early Internet pioneer best known for overseeing key Internet protocols and numbering systems, helping shape the modern Internet’s technical foundations.
  • E. Stephen E. Smith
    Stephen E. Smith was an American businessman and political strategist closely associated with the Kennedy family, notably serving as a key adviser and organizer in their political campaigns.
  • 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: Ben Bradlee
Triple: [Deep Throat, identityPreviouslyKnownBy, Ben Bradlee]
Generated description
Ben Bradlee was a prominent American journalist and longtime executive editor of The Washington Post, best known for overseeing the paper’s investigative reporting on the Watergate scandal.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Bradlee
Target entity description: Ben Bradlee was a prominent American journalist and longtime executive editor of The Washington Post, best known for overseeing the paper’s investigative reporting on the Watergate scandal.
  • A. Carl Bernstein
    Carl Bernstein is an American investigative journalist best known for his reporting with Bob Woodward that helped uncover the Watergate scandal and led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
  • B. A. G. Sulzberger
    A. G. Sulzberger is an American journalist and media executive who serves as chairman and publisher of The New York Times Company.
  • C. Bob Woodward
    Bob Woodward is an American investigative journalist and author best known for his reporting on the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post, which helped lead to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
  • D. Jon Postel
    Jon Postel was an American computer scientist and early Internet pioneer best known for overseeing key Internet protocols and numbering systems, helping shape the modern Internet’s technical foundations.
  • E. Stephen E. Smith
    Stephen E. Smith was an American businessman and political strategist closely associated with the Kennedy family, notably serving as a key adviser and organizer in their political campaigns.
  • 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_69a257c3d0708190b0871c4269d273e6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a260c42060819089eb772202e504f5 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a386155c0c8190baa1a1d5df15392e completed March 1, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3867100008190a4d17f099802864c completed March 1, 2026, 12:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a386c0ee288190ae58373c531e6313 completed March 1, 2026, 12:22 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.