Triple
T3237095
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room |
E67879
|
entity |
| Predicate | portrays |
P264
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Andrew Fastow |
E128093
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Andrew Fastow | Statement: [Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, portrays, Andrew Fastow]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Andrew Fastow Context triple: [Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, portrays, Andrew Fastow]
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A.
Andrew Fastow
chosen
Andrew Fastow is an American financier who served as Enron’s chief financial officer and became a central figure in the company’s massive accounting fraud and subsequent collapse.
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B.
Jeffrey Skilling
Jeffrey Skilling is the former CEO of Enron who became a central figure in one of the largest corporate fraud cases in U.S. history.
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C.
Bernard Ebbers
Bernard Ebbers was a Canadian-born businessman best known as the co-founder and former CEO of WorldCom, central to one of the largest accounting scandals in U.S. corporate history.
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D.
Edward Lampert
Edward Lampert is an American billionaire investor and hedge fund manager best known for orchestrating the merger of Sears and Kmart and serving as the longtime chairman of Sears Holdings.
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E.
Kenneth Lay
Kenneth Lay was the longtime chairman and CEO of Enron, widely known for his central role in the massive Enron corporate fraud and accounting scandal of the early 2000s.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ad858d27348190abb61c280b4c86a9 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adaef29bf48190a9aa3a39f0138428 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:16 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b28ea696a08190a17cbeeef7632977 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:08 p.m.