Triple

T1240028
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject al-Qaeda E26636 entity
Predicate notableAttack P18213 FINISHED
Object 1998 United States embassy bombings
The 1998 United States embassy bombings were coordinated truck bomb attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed hundreds of people and marked one of al-Qaeda’s earliest large-scale international terrorist operations.
E142257 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: 1998 United States embassy bombings | Statement: [al-Qaeda, notableAttack, 1998 United States embassy bombings]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1998 United States embassy bombings
Context triple: [al-Qaeda, notableAttack, 1998 United States embassy bombings]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Centennial Olympic Park bombing
    The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a domestic terrorist attack during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in which a pipe bomb exploded in a public gathering area, killing two people and injuring over a hundred others.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. September 11 attacks
    The September 11 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist hijackings and suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against targets in the United States in 2001, resulting in massive loss of life and global political and security repercussions.
  • 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: 1998 United States embassy bombings
Triple: [al-Qaeda, notableAttack, 1998 United States embassy bombings]
Generated description
The 1998 United States embassy bombings were coordinated truck bomb attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed hundreds of people and marked one of al-Qaeda’s earliest large-scale international terrorist operations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1998 United States embassy bombings
Target entity description: The 1998 United States embassy bombings were coordinated truck bomb attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed hundreds of people and marked one of al-Qaeda’s earliest large-scale international terrorist operations.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Centennial Olympic Park bombing
    The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a domestic terrorist attack during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in which a pipe bomb exploded in a public gathering area, killing two people and injuring over a hundred others.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. September 11 attacks
    The September 11 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist hijackings and suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against targets in the United States in 2001, resulting in massive loss of life and global political and security repercussions.
  • 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_69a4948689d08190b3a4a3f388c02148 completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bf41c5d08190b07adbdb24d35a76 completed March 1, 2026, 10:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac8f79afe08190802dd615f01e303d completed March 7, 2026, 8:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac90277d2481908d358bf3f8fdbdca completed March 7, 2026, 8:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac9080f4748190a2313bede48d3404 completed March 7, 2026, 8:54 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.