Triple

T3997297
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject U Thant E87128 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object Kurt Waldheim
Kurt Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat and politician who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations and later as President of Austria, becoming a controversial figure due to revelations about his World War II military service.
E407325 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: Kurt Waldheim | Statement: [U Thant, successor, Kurt Waldheim]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kurt Waldheim
Context triple: [U Thant, successor, Kurt Waldheim]
  • A. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali was an Egyptian diplomat and statesman best known for serving as the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1992 to 1996.
  • B. Youssef Boutros-Ghali
    Youssef Boutros-Ghali is an Egyptian economist and former Minister of Finance known for leading major economic reform and liberalization efforts in Egypt during the 2000s.
  • C. Martti Ahtisaari
    Martti Ahtisaari was a Finnish diplomat and politician who served as President of Finland and received the Nobel Peace Prize for his extensive work in international conflict resolution.
  • D. Cyrus R. Vance Jr.
    Cyrus R. Vance Jr. is an American lawyer and former Manhattan District Attorney known for overseeing high-profile criminal investigations, including cases involving former President Donald Trump.
  • E. Hans Blix
    Hans Blix is a Swedish diplomat and former chief UN weapons inspector best known for leading inspections in Iraq before the 2003 invasion and for his advocacy of nuclear disarmament and peaceful conflict resolution.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Kurt Waldheim
Triple: [U Thant, successor, Kurt Waldheim]
Generated description
Kurt Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat and politician who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations and later as President of Austria, becoming a controversial figure due to revelations about his World War II military service.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kurt Waldheim
Target entity description: Kurt Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat and politician who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations and later as President of Austria, becoming a controversial figure due to revelations about his World War II military service.
  • A. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali was an Egyptian diplomat and statesman best known for serving as the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1992 to 1996.
  • B. Youssef Boutros-Ghali
    Youssef Boutros-Ghali is an Egyptian economist and former Minister of Finance known for leading major economic reform and liberalization efforts in Egypt during the 2000s.
  • C. Martti Ahtisaari
    Martti Ahtisaari was a Finnish diplomat and politician who served as President of Finland and received the Nobel Peace Prize for his extensive work in international conflict resolution.
  • D. Cyrus R. Vance Jr.
    Cyrus R. Vance Jr. is an American lawyer and former Manhattan District Attorney known for overseeing high-profile criminal investigations, including cases involving former President Donald Trump.
  • E. Hans Blix
    Hans Blix is a Swedish diplomat and former chief UN weapons inspector best known for leading inspections in Iraq before the 2003 invasion and for his advocacy of nuclear disarmament and peaceful conflict resolution.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69aed94118148190975e6aa4e554cde9 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefa228d608190b936a86c98c92ef2 completed March 9, 2026, 4:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b54c54f05c8190b18c2d4839a61b64 completed March 14, 2026, 11:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b54cf3da208190aa844c9ea66354fe completed March 14, 2026, 11:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b55159dc288190a63d5f5164b73bbb completed March 14, 2026, 12:15 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:34 p.m.