Triple
T16391563
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | UK Parliament 1983–1987 |
E398063
|
entity |
| Predicate | significantEvent |
P259
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Westland affair
The Westland affair was a major 1985–86 British political controversy over the future of the Westland helicopter company that exposed deep Cabinet divisions and seriously damaged Margaret Thatcher’s government.
|
E1210805
|
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: Westland affair | Statement: [UK Parliament 1983–1987, significantEvent, Westland affair]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Westland affair Context triple: [UK Parliament 1983–1987, significantEvent, Westland affair]
-
A.
Thorpe affair
The Thorpe affair was a major 1970s British political scandal involving Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe’s alleged conspiracy to murder his former lover, Norman Scott.
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B.
Calas affair
The Calas affair was an 18th-century French legal case involving the wrongful execution of Protestant merchant Jean Calas, which became a symbol of religious intolerance and judicial injustice and inspired Voltaire’s campaign for civil rights and legal reform.
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C.
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.
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D.
Dunera affair
The Dunera affair was a World War II incident in which over 2,000 mainly Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany were wrongly deported by Britain to internment camps in Australia under harsh and unjust conditions.
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E.
Morgan affair
The Morgan affair was an 1826 incident involving the disappearance of William Morgan after he threatened to expose Masonic secrets, which sparked widespread anti-Masonic sentiment in the United States.
- 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: Westland affair Triple: [UK Parliament 1983–1987, significantEvent, Westland affair]
Generated description
The Westland affair was a major 1985–86 British political controversy over the future of the Westland helicopter company that exposed deep Cabinet divisions and seriously damaged Margaret Thatcher’s government.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Westland affair Target entity description: The Westland affair was a major 1985–86 British political controversy over the future of the Westland helicopter company that exposed deep Cabinet divisions and seriously damaged Margaret Thatcher’s government.
-
A.
Thorpe affair
The Thorpe affair was a major 1970s British political scandal involving Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe’s alleged conspiracy to murder his former lover, Norman Scott.
-
B.
Calas affair
The Calas affair was an 18th-century French legal case involving the wrongful execution of Protestant merchant Jean Calas, which became a symbol of religious intolerance and judicial injustice and inspired Voltaire’s campaign for civil rights and legal reform.
-
C.
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.
-
D.
Dunera affair
The Dunera affair was a World War II incident in which over 2,000 mainly Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany were wrongly deported by Britain to internment camps in Australia under harsh and unjust conditions.
-
E.
Morgan affair
The Morgan affair was an 1826 incident involving the disappearance of William Morgan after he threatened to expose Masonic secrets, which sparked widespread anti-Masonic sentiment in the United States.
- 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_69d87f2880b48190ae1a9673a3bbef80 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e326436ce881909f0f3899b8d931aa |
completed | April 18, 2026, 6:35 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a003573c6d48190979201b9619c5103 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 7:36 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a00373d262c8190b85e451ca0763504 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 7:43 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a0037e43a2c8190993447ade595f6e6 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 7:46 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:08 a.m.