Triple

T20877868
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James "Whitey" Bulger E514067 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object James Joseph Bulger Jr. 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.]
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.