Triple
T20877875
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | James "Whitey" Bulger |
E514067
|
entity |
| Predicate | sibling |
P363
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Bulger |
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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: William Bulger | Statement: [James "Whitey" Bulger, sibling, William Bulger]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Bulger Context triple: [James "Whitey" Bulger, sibling, William Bulger]
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A.
William M. Bulger
chosen
William M. Bulger is an American lawyer, Democratic politician, and longtime president of the Massachusetts Senate who later served as president of the University of Massachusetts.
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B.
Robert Michael Bellotti
Robert Michael "Mike" Bellotti is an American former college football coach and athletic director best known for his long tenure leading the University of Oregon Ducks football program.
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C.
Dan Walsh
Dan Walsh is a musician and songwriter known for his work composing and performing blues and soul-influenced music.
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D.
Dennis C. Liotta
Dennis C. Liotta is an American chemist best known as a co-inventor of several groundbreaking antiviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV and hepatitis B.
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E.
Edward Padula
Edward Padula was an American theatre producer and director best known for developing and producing influential Broadway musicals in the mid-20th century.
- 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_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.