Triple

T11063799
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jeremy Scahill E261570 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army is an investigative nonfiction book examining the rise, operations, and political influence of the private military company Blackwater in U.S. foreign policy and modern warfare.
E903088 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: Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army | Statement: [Jeremy Scahill, notableWork, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Context triple: [Jeremy Scahill, notableWork, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army]
  • A. The Mercenary
    The Mercenary is a 1968 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci, known for its blend of political themes, stylized violence, and Franco Nero’s iconic gunslinger performance.
  • B. The Mercenaries
    The Mercenaries is a 1968 British adventure film (also known as Dark of the Sun) about a group of soldiers of fortune on a perilous mission in the Congo.
  • C. Lord of War
    Lord of War is a 2005 crime drama film following an international arms dealer as he navigates the global weapons trade and its moral consequences.
  • D. Soldiers of Fortune
    Soldiers of Fortune is an 1897 adventure novel by American writer Richard Harding Davis, centered on political intrigue and revolution in a fictional Latin American country.
  • E. Soldiers of Fortune
    Soldiers of Fortune is a 2012 action-adventure film about wealthy thrill-seekers who pay to participate in a real military mission, starring actors including Dominic Monaghan.
  • 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: Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Triple: [Jeremy Scahill, notableWork, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army]
Generated description
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army is an investigative nonfiction book examining the rise, operations, and political influence of the private military company Blackwater in U.S. foreign policy and modern warfare.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Target entity description: Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army is an investigative nonfiction book examining the rise, operations, and political influence of the private military company Blackwater in U.S. foreign policy and modern warfare.
  • A. The Mercenary
    The Mercenary is a 1968 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci, known for its blend of political themes, stylized violence, and Franco Nero’s iconic gunslinger performance.
  • B. The Mercenaries
    The Mercenaries is a 1968 British adventure film (also known as Dark of the Sun) about a group of soldiers of fortune on a perilous mission in the Congo.
  • C. Lord of War
    Lord of War is a 2005 crime drama film following an international arms dealer as he navigates the global weapons trade and its moral consequences.
  • D. Soldiers of Fortune
    Soldiers of Fortune is an 1897 adventure novel by American writer Richard Harding Davis, centered on political intrigue and revolution in a fictional Latin American country.
  • E. Soldiers of Fortune
    Soldiers of Fortune is a 2012 action-adventure film about wealthy thrill-seekers who pay to participate in a real military mission, starring actors including Dominic Monaghan.
  • 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_69d6aa98650481908609c7c56bfa7902 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d798ed07f88190bf501d9f63386ada completed April 9, 2026, 12:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e3c8977f98819082dec025e92782da completed April 18, 2026, 6:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e3cadf271081908d2b794a4288892a completed April 18, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3cf1f508c81909b4ca8131b7fc9ee completed April 18, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:26 p.m.