Triple
T14508291
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Bethany McLean |
E340324
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entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object |
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
"The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron" is a nonfiction investigative book that chronicles the meteoric growth and catastrophic collapse of the Enron Corporation, exposing the corporate fraud, hubris, and systemic failures behind one of the biggest business scandals in U.S. history.
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E1104411
|
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: The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron | Statement: [Bethany McLean, notableWork, The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron Context triple: [Bethany McLean, notableWork, The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron]
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A.
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is a 2005 documentary film that investigates the rise and catastrophic collapse of the Enron Corporation and the corporate fraud behind it.
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B.
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
"Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco" is a bestselling non-fiction book that chronicles the dramatic leveraged buyout battle for RJR Nabisco in the late 1980s, illustrating the excesses and power struggles of Wall Street during that era.
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C.
Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend
Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend is a nonfiction book by Mitchell Zuckoff that recounts the rise and fall of Charles Ponzi and the infamous investment fraud that bears his name.
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D.
The Insider
The Insider was an American syndicated entertainment news television program that focused on celebrity news, gossip, and pop culture.
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E.
The Power Broker
The Power Broker is Robert A. Caro’s landmark biography of urban planner Robert Moses, renowned for its exhaustive research and incisive examination of political power and city-building in 20th-century New York.
- 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: The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron Triple: [Bethany McLean, notableWork, The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron]
Generated description
"The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron" is a nonfiction investigative book that chronicles the meteoric growth and catastrophic collapse of the Enron Corporation, exposing the corporate fraud, hubris, and systemic failures behind one of the biggest business scandals in U.S. history.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron Target entity description: "The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron" is a nonfiction investigative book that chronicles the meteoric growth and catastrophic collapse of the Enron Corporation, exposing the corporate fraud, hubris, and systemic failures behind one of the biggest business scandals in U.S. history.
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A.
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is a 2005 documentary film that investigates the rise and catastrophic collapse of the Enron Corporation and the corporate fraud behind it.
-
B.
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
"Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco" is a bestselling non-fiction book that chronicles the dramatic leveraged buyout battle for RJR Nabisco in the late 1980s, illustrating the excesses and power struggles of Wall Street during that era.
-
C.
Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend
Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend is a nonfiction book by Mitchell Zuckoff that recounts the rise and fall of Charles Ponzi and the infamous investment fraud that bears his name.
-
D.
The Insider
The Insider was an American syndicated entertainment news television program that focused on celebrity news, gossip, and pop culture.
-
E.
The Power Broker
The Power Broker is Robert A. Caro’s landmark biography of urban planner Robert Moses, renowned for its exhaustive research and incisive examination of political power and city-building in 20th-century New York.
- 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_69fd7a4660c881908d0cdc27c277ae6b |
completed | May 8, 2026, 5:53 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69fd7b7f7b1c8190b38c5912920e2d9b |
completed | May 8, 2026, 5:58 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69fd7be778dc81908b0602bab944330a |
completed | May 8, 2026, 6 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:21 a.m.