Triple
T18905924
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco |
E462462
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entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object | John Helyar |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: John Helyar | Statement: [Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, author, John Helyar]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Helyar Context triple: [Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, author, John Helyar]
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A.
John Helyar
chosen
John Helyar is an American journalist and author best known for co-writing the influential business book "Barbarians at the Gate," which chronicles the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco.
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B.
John de Bermingham
John de Bermingham was an Anglo-Irish nobleman and military leader best known for defeating Edward Bruce and ending the Bruce campaign in Ireland in the early 14th century.
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C.
John Meillon
John Meillon was an Australian actor best known internationally for his role as Walter Reilly in the "Crocodile Dundee" film series.
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D.
John Dury
John Dury was a 17th-century Scottish Calvinist minister and ecumenical reformer known for his efforts to promote Protestant unity across Europe.
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E.
Richard Smyth
Richard Smyth is a personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as religion, politics, and the arts.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8dcfd05bc819088903cca13cc2846 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5c52cc9cc8190ac489d36e51693c8 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 6:18 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:58 a.m.