Triple
T2769309
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Robert Upshur Woodward |
E61414
|
entity |
| Predicate | alsoKnownAs |
P39
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Bob Woodward |
E9514
|
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: Bob Woodward | Statement: [Robert Upshur Woodward, alsoKnownAs, Bob Woodward]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bob Woodward Context triple: [Robert Upshur Woodward, alsoKnownAs, Bob Woodward]
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A.
Bob Woodward
chosen
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.
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B.
Seymour Hersh
Seymour Hersh is an American investigative journalist renowned for uncovering major government abuses and scandals, including the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
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C.
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.
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D.
Kurt Eichenwald
Kurt Eichenwald is an American journalist and author known for his investigative reporting and nonfiction books on corporate crime and financial scandals.
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E.
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.
- 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_69ab4b7cd13481909174bca9809ed259 |
completed | March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abdd6785d88190b99f99889463a962 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 8:10 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69afe89b94848190946abef7216339be |
completed | March 10, 2026, 9:47 a.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:57 p.m.