Triple

T14508287
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bethany McLean E340324 entity
Predicate authorOf P4244 FINISHED
Object Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants
"Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants" is a nonfiction book that investigates the troubled history, political battles, and systemic risks surrounding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac after the 2008 financial crisis.
E1102840 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: Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants | Statement: [Bethany McLean, authorOf, Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants
Context triple: [Bethany McLean, authorOf, Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants]
  • A. Unaccountable: The Government’s Failure to Protect Americans from Mortgage Fraud
    "Unaccountable: The Government’s Failure to Protect Americans from Mortgage Fraud" is an investigative nonfiction book by journalist Debbie Cenziper that examines systemic regulatory failures and government inaction in the face of widespread mortgage fraud in the United States.
  • B. The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror
    "The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror" is a historical study by Beverly Gage that examines the 1920 Wall Street bombing and its broader implications for American politics, security, and civil liberties in the early twentieth century.
  • C. 13 Bankers
    13 Bankers is a nonfiction book by economist Simon Johnson that analyzes the rise of powerful financial institutions in the United States and argues that their unchecked influence poses a serious threat to democracy and economic stability.
  • D. Triumph of the Market
    Triumph of the Market is a critical work by economist and media analyst Edward S. Herman that examines the social and political consequences of neoliberal, market-driven policies.
  • E. The Miracle of the Market
    The Miracle of the Market is an essay by Leonard Read that illustrates how free markets and dispersed knowledge enable complex economic coordination without central planning.
  • 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: Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants
Triple: [Bethany McLean, authorOf, Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants]
Generated description
"Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants" is a nonfiction book that investigates the troubled history, political battles, and systemic risks surrounding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac after the 2008 financial crisis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants
Target entity description: "Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants" is a nonfiction book that investigates the troubled history, political battles, and systemic risks surrounding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac after the 2008 financial crisis.
  • A. Unaccountable: The Government’s Failure to Protect Americans from Mortgage Fraud
    "Unaccountable: The Government’s Failure to Protect Americans from Mortgage Fraud" is an investigative nonfiction book by journalist Debbie Cenziper that examines systemic regulatory failures and government inaction in the face of widespread mortgage fraud in the United States.
  • B. The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror
    "The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror" is a historical study by Beverly Gage that examines the 1920 Wall Street bombing and its broader implications for American politics, security, and civil liberties in the early twentieth century.
  • C. 13 Bankers
    13 Bankers is a nonfiction book by economist Simon Johnson that analyzes the rise of powerful financial institutions in the United States and argues that their unchecked influence poses a serious threat to democracy and economic stability.
  • D. Triumph of the Market
    Triumph of the Market is a critical work by economist and media analyst Edward S. Herman that examines the social and political consequences of neoliberal, market-driven policies.
  • E. The Miracle of the Market
    The Miracle of the Market is an essay by Leonard Read that illustrates how free markets and dispersed knowledge enable complex economic coordination without central planning.
  • 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_69d822d9c0408190b9a2b3643e58bb4d completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de94e40e44819084f323f8f9982b75 completed April 14, 2026, 7:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd6da26a308190bf86ed1edbe8d57e completed May 8, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd71ef47848190bf10dbedb72304e6 completed May 8, 2026, 5:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd729c87dc81909d9149928c70cb00 completed May 8, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:21 a.m.