Triple

T10126883
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Leigh E226236 entity
Predicate notableInvestigation P16515 FINISHED
Object arms-to-Iraq affair
The arms-to-Iraq affair was a major British political scandal involving the covert and often illegal supply of weapons and military equipment to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in the 1980s and early 1990s, leading to inquiries about government complicity and export control abuses.
E841539 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: arms-to-Iraq affair | Statement: [David Leigh, notableInvestigation, arms-to-Iraq affair]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: arms-to-Iraq affair
Context triple: [David Leigh, notableInvestigation, arms-to-Iraq affair]
  • A. Lavon Affair
    The Lavon Affair was a 1954 Israeli covert operation in Egypt that went disastrously wrong, leading to a major political scandal and crisis within Israel’s leadership.
  • B. Iran–Contra affair
    The Iran–Contra affair was a major 1980s U.S. political scandal in which senior officials secretly facilitated arms sales to Iran and diverted the proceeds to fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua, circumventing congressional restrictions.
  • C. Iran hostage crisis
    The Iran hostage crisis was a 444-day diplomatic standoff from 1979 to 1981 in which 52 American diplomats and citizens were held captive at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, profoundly damaging U.S.–Iran relations.
  • D. U-2 incident of 1960
    The U-2 incident of 1960 was a Cold War crisis in which an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, severely damaging U.S.–Soviet relations and derailing a planned summit between their leaders.
  • E. Iraq disarmament crisis of the 1990s
    The Iraq disarmament crisis of the 1990s was a prolonged standoff between Iraq and the United Nations over weapons inspections and compliance with disarmament obligations imposed after the Gulf War.
  • 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: arms-to-Iraq affair
Triple: [David Leigh, notableInvestigation, arms-to-Iraq affair]
Generated description
The arms-to-Iraq affair was a major British political scandal involving the covert and often illegal supply of weapons and military equipment to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in the 1980s and early 1990s, leading to inquiries about government complicity and export control abuses.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: arms-to-Iraq affair
Target entity description: The arms-to-Iraq affair was a major British political scandal involving the covert and often illegal supply of weapons and military equipment to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in the 1980s and early 1990s, leading to inquiries about government complicity and export control abuses.
  • A. Lavon Affair
    The Lavon Affair was a 1954 Israeli covert operation in Egypt that went disastrously wrong, leading to a major political scandal and crisis within Israel’s leadership.
  • B. Iran–Contra affair
    The Iran–Contra affair was a major 1980s U.S. political scandal in which senior officials secretly facilitated arms sales to Iran and diverted the proceeds to fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua, circumventing congressional restrictions.
  • C. Iran hostage crisis
    The Iran hostage crisis was a 444-day diplomatic standoff from 1979 to 1981 in which 52 American diplomats and citizens were held captive at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, profoundly damaging U.S.–Iran relations.
  • D. U-2 incident of 1960
    The U-2 incident of 1960 was a Cold War crisis in which an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, severely damaging U.S.–Soviet relations and derailing a planned summit between their leaders.
  • E. Iraq disarmament crisis of the 1990s
    The Iraq disarmament crisis of the 1990s was a prolonged standoff between Iraq and the United Nations over weapons inspections and compliance with disarmament obligations imposed after the Gulf War.
  • 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_69ca843057b48190a86730167f5d6b98 completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdd2eef7388190b95ffd02814f2d1f completed April 2, 2026, 2:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d2cc69a5c88190ab7b108e1aab20ba completed April 5, 2026, 8:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2cd90fb888190833ca68dd644860d completed April 5, 2026, 9:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d2ce02525881908a5394acb7967ba2 completed April 5, 2026, 9:02 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:05 p.m.