Triple
T9029165
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | WorldCom, Inc. |
E216124
|
entity |
| Predicate | positionHeld |
P8
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Bernard Ebbers – Chief Executive Officer |
E216126
|
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: Bernard Ebbers – Chief Executive Officer | Statement: [WorldCom, Inc., positionHeld, Bernard Ebbers – Chief Executive Officer]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernard Ebbers – Chief Executive Officer Context triple: [WorldCom, Inc., positionHeld, Bernard Ebbers – Chief Executive Officer]
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A.
Bernard Ebbers
chosen
Bernard Ebbers was a Canadian-born businessman best known as the co-founder and former CEO of WorldCom, central to one of the largest accounting scandals in U.S. corporate history.
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B.
Howard Amacker
Howard Amacker was a screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century American Western films, including the 1959 movie "No Name on the Bullet."
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C.
Kenneth Lay
Kenneth Lay was the longtime chairman and CEO of Enron, widely known for his central role in the massive Enron corporate fraud and accounting scandal of the early 2000s.
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D.
Chief Executive Officer of WorldCom
The Chief Executive Officer of WorldCom was the top executive responsible for leading the telecommunications company during its post-scandal restructuring and efforts to recover from one of the largest accounting frauds in U.S. history.
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E.
Jeffrey Skilling
Jeffrey Skilling is the former CEO of Enron who became a central figure in one of the largest corporate fraud cases in U.S. history.
- 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_69ca83a5fa88819088144801b4dd7245 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cc6a9bcb508190b58751f1772407d4 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 12:45 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cfdbc289648190834031537c8ce130 |
completed | April 3, 2026, 3:24 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:08 p.m.