Triple

T14509279
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Citizen K E340352 entity
Predicate portrays P264 FINISHED
Object Yukos oil company affair
The Yukos oil company affair was a major Russian political and corporate scandal involving the dismantling of the Yukos oil giant, the prosecution of its executives, and a broader crackdown on perceived political and economic opposition to the Kremlin.
E1102923 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: Yukos oil company affair | Statement: [Citizen K, portrays, Yukos oil company affair]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yukos oil company affair
Context triple: [Citizen K, portrays, Yukos oil company affair]
  • A. Bofors scandal
    The Bofors scandal was a major Indian political corruption controversy in the 1980s involving alleged kickbacks in a Swedish howitzer gun deal, which severely damaged the credibility of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s government.
  • B. 1991 U.S. Treasury auction bidding scandal
    The 1991 U.S. Treasury auction bidding scandal was a major financial controversy in which Salomon Brothers was found to have violated Treasury auction rules by submitting illegal bids, shaking confidence in Wall Street and prompting regulatory reforms.
  • C. 1993 Russian constitutional crisis
    The 1993 Russian constitutional crisis was a violent political standoff between President Boris Yeltsin and the Russian parliament that culminated in armed conflict in Moscow and a decisive shift toward a stronger presidential system.
  • D. Credit Mobilier scandal
    The Credit Mobilier scandal was a major 1870s political corruption affair involving fraudulent railroad construction contracts and widespread bribery of U.S. congressmen and officials.
  • E. Russian financial crisis of 1998
    The Russian financial crisis of 1998 was a severe economic collapse marked by a sharp devaluation of the ruble, default on domestic debt, and banking sector turmoil that undermined confidence in Russia’s post-Soviet market reforms.
  • 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: Yukos oil company affair
Triple: [Citizen K, portrays, Yukos oil company affair]
Generated description
The Yukos oil company affair was a major Russian political and corporate scandal involving the dismantling of the Yukos oil giant, the prosecution of its executives, and a broader crackdown on perceived political and economic opposition to the Kremlin.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yukos oil company affair
Target entity description: The Yukos oil company affair was a major Russian political and corporate scandal involving the dismantling of the Yukos oil giant, the prosecution of its executives, and a broader crackdown on perceived political and economic opposition to the Kremlin.
  • A. Bofors scandal
    The Bofors scandal was a major Indian political corruption controversy in the 1980s involving alleged kickbacks in a Swedish howitzer gun deal, which severely damaged the credibility of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s government.
  • B. 1991 U.S. Treasury auction bidding scandal
    The 1991 U.S. Treasury auction bidding scandal was a major financial controversy in which Salomon Brothers was found to have violated Treasury auction rules by submitting illegal bids, shaking confidence in Wall Street and prompting regulatory reforms.
  • C. 1993 Russian constitutional crisis
    The 1993 Russian constitutional crisis was a violent political standoff between President Boris Yeltsin and the Russian parliament that culminated in armed conflict in Moscow and a decisive shift toward a stronger presidential system.
  • D. Credit Mobilier scandal
    The Credit Mobilier scandal was a major 1870s political corruption affair involving fraudulent railroad construction contracts and widespread bribery of U.S. congressmen and officials.
  • E. Russian financial crisis of 1998
    The Russian financial crisis of 1998 was a severe economic collapse marked by a sharp devaluation of the ruble, default on domestic debt, and banking sector turmoil that undermined confidence in Russia’s post-Soviet market reforms.
  • 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_69de94e5b7b48190878be271840c265b 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.