Triple
T702976
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | NKVD |
E14038
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableLeader |
P304
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Nikolai Yezhov |
E35952
|
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: Nikolai Yezhov | Statement: [NKVD, notableLeader, Nikolai Yezhov]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nikolai Yezhov Context triple: [NKVD, notableLeader, Nikolai Yezhov]
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A.
Nikolai Yezhov
chosen
Nikolai Yezhov was a high-ranking Soviet secret police chief who oversaw the most brutal phase of Stalin’s Great Purge before himself falling victim to the terror.
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B.
Felix Dzerzhinsky
Felix Dzerzhinsky was a Polish-born Bolshevik revolutionary best known as the founder and first head of the Soviet secret police, the Cheka, which evolved into the KGB.
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C.
Sergei Kirov
Sergei Kirov was a prominent early Bolshevik leader and close ally of Joseph Stalin, whose 1934 assassination in Leningrad became a key pretext for the Great Purge in the Soviet Union.
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D.
Lazar Kaganovich
Lazar Kaganovich was a powerful Soviet politician and close associate of Joseph Stalin, known for his key role in brutal policies of collectivization and political repression in the USSR.
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E.
Andrei Zhdanov
Andrei Zhdanov was a prominent Soviet politician and close associate of Joseph Stalin, known for shaping postwar cultural policy and leading major party organizations before his death in 1948.
- 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_69a493494ec48190ae6751683625a9ba |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4a532dd708190ab91e515a07b441e |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:44 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a7a3a6bcf88190aff5bd3db264f475 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 3:14 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.