Triple
T20877868
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | James "Whitey" Bulger |
E514067
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James Joseph Bulger Jr. |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: James Joseph Bulger Jr. | Statement: [James "Whitey" Bulger, fullName, James Joseph Bulger Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Joseph Bulger Jr. Context triple: [James "Whitey" Bulger, fullName, James Joseph Bulger Jr.]
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A.
Adam Walsh
Adam Walsh was a six-year-old American boy whose 1981 abduction and murder led to major reforms in child protection laws and inspired his father John Walsh’s lifelong advocacy against crime.
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B.
Ronald DeFeo Jr.
Ronald DeFeo Jr. was an American mass murderer best known for killing his family in their Amityville, New York home, an event that later inspired the "Amityville Horror" legend and franchise.
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C.
Henry Bowers
Henry Bowers is a sadistic teenage bully and one of the primary human antagonists in the 2017 horror film adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
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D.
Nathan Leopold
Nathan Leopold was an American criminal best known for participating in the infamous 1924 "Leopold and Loeb" murder case, in which he and Richard Loeb killed a young boy in a notorious attempt to commit the "perfect crime."
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E.
Michael Skakel
Michael Skakel is an American man best known for his controversial conviction and later vacated conviction in the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Connecticut.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Joseph Bulger Jr. Target entity description: James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr. was a notorious Boston mob boss and FBI informant whose criminal career and years as a fugitive made him one of the most infamous organized crime figures in U.S. history.
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A.
Adam Walsh
Adam Walsh was a six-year-old American boy whose 1981 abduction and murder led to major reforms in child protection laws and inspired his father John Walsh’s lifelong advocacy against crime.
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B.
Ronald DeFeo Jr.
Ronald DeFeo Jr. was an American mass murderer best known for killing his family in their Amityville, New York home, an event that later inspired the "Amityville Horror" legend and franchise.
-
C.
Henry Bowers
Henry Bowers is a sadistic teenage bully and one of the primary human antagonists in the 2017 horror film adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
-
D.
Nathan Leopold
Nathan Leopold was an American criminal best known for participating in the infamous 1924 "Leopold and Loeb" murder case, in which he and Richard Loeb killed a young boy in a notorious attempt to commit the "perfect crime."
-
E.
Michael Skakel
Michael Skakel is an American man best known for his controversial conviction and later vacated conviction in the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Connecticut.
- F. None of above. chosen
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_69e0b4f733f081908a401c0b7beb0b9f |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6c6775f108190a79cd5e8c31cecf6 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 12:36 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:45 p.m.