Triple
T3429932
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Checkmarx |
E72311
|
entity |
| Predicate | acquiredBy |
P347
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Hellman & Friedman |
E13786
|
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: Hellman & Friedman | Statement: [Checkmarx, acquiredBy, Hellman & Friedman]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hellman & Friedman Context triple: [Checkmarx, acquiredBy, Hellman & Friedman]
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A.
Hellman & Friedman
chosen
Hellman & Friedman is a San Francisco–based private equity firm known for large-scale investments in technology, financial services, and other sectors.
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B.
Hellman
Hellman is a surname most notably associated with Martin Hellman, the American cryptologist and co-inventor of the Diffie–Hellman key exchange.
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C.
Sidney Finkelstein
Sidney Finkelstein was an American Marxist literary and music critic known for his analyses of culture and the arts from a leftist perspective.
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D.
Hellman family
The Hellman family is a surname-bearing family line, likely encompassing multiple related individuals such as Herman Wouk Hellman.
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E.
Richard Goldman
Richard Goldman was an American philanthropist and environmentalist best known for co-founding the Goldman Environmental Prize and supporting public policy and environmental causes.
- 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_69ad85ae14308190bcbc25cfa0246c0b |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adb9bd61908190a7bdd01f24334fc3 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:02 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b367f6bb90819084055d9d001430fd |
completed | March 13, 2026, 1:27 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:15 p.m.