Triple

T15575880
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sunlight Foundation E374368 entity
Predicate notableProject P4 FINISHED
Object Influence Explorer
Influence Explorer is an online transparency tool that aggregates and visualizes political influence data, such as campaign contributions and lobbying records, to help the public track money in politics.
E1164605 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: Influence Explorer | Statement: [Sunlight Foundation, notableProject, Influence Explorer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Influence Explorer
Context triple: [Sunlight Foundation, notableProject, Influence Explorer]
  • A. Matthew Gentzkow
    Matthew Gentzkow is an American economist known for his influential research on media, political communication, and industrial organization.
  • B. Media Research Center
    Media Research Center is a conservative media watchdog organization in the United States that monitors and critiques perceived liberal bias in news and entertainment media.
  • C. Edward Bernays
    Edward Bernays was an Austrian-American pioneer of public relations and propaganda, often called the "father of public relations" for his influential theories and campaigns in the 20th century.
  • D. political scientist Ithiel de Sola Pool
    Ithiel de Sola Pool was an influential American political scientist and communications scholar known for pioneering work on the social and political impacts of mass media and emerging technologies.
  • E. John Muller
    John Muller is the central character in the 1948 film noir "Hollow Triumph," a criminal who assumes the identity of his exact double with disastrous consequences.
  • 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: Influence Explorer
Triple: [Sunlight Foundation, notableProject, Influence Explorer]
Generated description
Influence Explorer is an online transparency tool that aggregates and visualizes political influence data, such as campaign contributions and lobbying records, to help the public track money in politics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Influence Explorer
Target entity description: Influence Explorer is an online transparency tool that aggregates and visualizes political influence data, such as campaign contributions and lobbying records, to help the public track money in politics.
  • A. Matthew Gentzkow
    Matthew Gentzkow is an American economist known for his influential research on media, political communication, and industrial organization.
  • B. Media Research Center
    Media Research Center is a conservative media watchdog organization in the United States that monitors and critiques perceived liberal bias in news and entertainment media.
  • C. Edward Bernays
    Edward Bernays was an Austrian-American pioneer of public relations and propaganda, often called the "father of public relations" for his influential theories and campaigns in the 20th century.
  • D. political scientist Ithiel de Sola Pool
    Ithiel de Sola Pool was an influential American political scientist and communications scholar known for pioneering work on the social and political impacts of mass media and emerging technologies.
  • E. John Muller
    John Muller is the central character in the 1948 film noir "Hollow Triumph," a criminal who assumes the identity of his exact double with disastrous consequences.
  • 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_69d85ccd575081908909b71a3f3e3a61 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04e2140388190a8df7b835eaa72ce completed April 16, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff4c4978ec8190a57de5d9a2ec6653 completed May 9, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff4d0678648190b61fbe79a60da8ec completed May 9, 2026, 3:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff4d9258148190b21201bb09e16999 completed May 9, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:10 a.m.