Triple

T1062985
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Iranian Revolution E22947 entity
Predicate followedBy P78 FINISHED
Object 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.
E121990 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: Iran hostage crisis | Statement: [Iranian Revolution, followedBy, Iran hostage crisis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Iran hostage crisis
Context triple: [Iranian Revolution, followedBy, Iran hostage crisis]
  • A. Iranian Embassy siege
    The Iranian Embassy siege was a 1980 hostage crisis in London that ended with a high-profile counterterrorism assault by the British Special Air Service (SAS), broadcast live on television.
  • B. Mayaguez incident
    The Mayaguez incident was a 1975 confrontation between the United States and Cambodia in which U.S. forces attempted to rescue the crew of the seized American merchant ship SS Mayaguez, often regarded as one of the last official battles of the Vietnam War era.
  • C. Lockerbie bombing diplomatic crisis
    The Lockerbie bombing diplomatic crisis was the prolonged international standoff in the 1990s and early 2000s over Libya’s responsibility for the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, involving UN sanctions, negotiations over suspects’ trials, and eventual compensation agreements.
  • 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. Black September conflict
    The Black September conflict was a violent confrontation in 1970–1971 between the Jordanian government and Palestinian armed organizations that reshaped the Palestinian resistance movement and regional politics in the Middle East.
  • 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: Iran hostage crisis
Triple: [Iranian Revolution, followedBy, Iran hostage crisis]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Iran hostage crisis
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. Iranian Embassy siege
    The Iranian Embassy siege was a 1980 hostage crisis in London that ended with a high-profile counterterrorism assault by the British Special Air Service (SAS), broadcast live on television.
  • B. Mayaguez incident
    The Mayaguez incident was a 1975 confrontation between the United States and Cambodia in which U.S. forces attempted to rescue the crew of the seized American merchant ship SS Mayaguez, often regarded as one of the last official battles of the Vietnam War era.
  • C. Lockerbie bombing diplomatic crisis
    The Lockerbie bombing diplomatic crisis was the prolonged international standoff in the 1990s and early 2000s over Libya’s responsibility for the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, involving UN sanctions, negotiations over suspects’ trials, and eventual compensation agreements.
  • 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. Black September conflict
    The Black September conflict was a violent confrontation in 1970–1971 between the Jordanian government and Palestinian armed organizations that reshaped the Palestinian resistance movement and regional politics in the Middle East.
  • 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_69a493dada0481909c43649f9843ea91 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b8f68a54819084326d87c3498252 completed March 1, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac3bd553a08190a2014711bd1146bf completed March 7, 2026, 2:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac3dd441fc8190ad462aa07e9c8c9b completed March 7, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac3e4747908190a878ac70bd81f5fc completed March 7, 2026, 3:03 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.