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.
  • 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
  • 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.