Triple

T1240977
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lebanese Civil War E26655 entity
Predicate notableAttack P18213 FINISHED
Object 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut
The 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut was a major suicide truck bombing that devastated the U.S. diplomatic mission in Lebanon, killing dozens and marking one of the earliest large-scale attacks against American targets in the Middle East.
E143023 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: 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut | Statement: [Lebanese Civil War, notableAttack, 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut
Context triple: [Lebanese Civil War, notableAttack, 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. McGurk's Bar bombing
    The McGurk's Bar bombing was a 1971 loyalist terrorist attack in Belfast in which a bomb exploded in a Catholic pub, killing 15 civilians and becoming one of the deadliest single incidents of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut
Triple: [Lebanese Civil War, notableAttack, 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut]
Generated description
The 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut was a major suicide truck bombing that devastated the U.S. diplomatic mission in Lebanon, killing dozens and marking one of the earliest large-scale attacks against American targets in the Middle East.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut
Target entity description: The 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut was a major suicide truck bombing that devastated the U.S. diplomatic mission in Lebanon, killing dozens and marking one of the earliest large-scale attacks against American targets in the Middle East.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. McGurk's Bar bombing
    The McGurk's Bar bombing was a 1971 loyalist terrorist attack in Belfast in which a bomb exploded in a Catholic pub, killing 15 civilians and becoming one of the deadliest single incidents of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69a4bf4343e48190a232abd8475880a0 completed March 1, 2026, 10:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac93c186fc8190a353c8f0a90ce273 completed March 7, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac94abbd748190851f3d53ec909494 completed March 7, 2026, 9:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac9506ec5481909014834364f4e7f7 completed March 7, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.