Triple
T4062431
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | News International phone hacking scandal |
E86243
|
entity |
| Predicate | involves |
P1256
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Andy Coulson |
E95420
|
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: Andy Coulson | Statement: [News International phone hacking scandal, involves, Andy Coulson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Andy Coulson Context triple: [News International phone hacking scandal, involves, Andy Coulson]
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A.
Andy Coulson
chosen
Andy Coulson is a British former tabloid newspaper editor and political strategist best known for his role in the News of the World phone hacking scandal.
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B.
Jonathan Powell
Jonathan Powell is a Welsh musician and composer best known as the long-term partner and husband of singer Charlotte Church.
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C.
Roy Jenkins
Roy Jenkins was a prominent British politician and statesman, known for serving as Home Secretary, President of the European Commission, and later as a leading figure in the breakaway centrist movement that reshaped UK politics in the early 1980s.
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D.
Peter Hitchens
Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author, and conservative commentator known for his columns in The Mail on Sunday and his critiques of modern liberalism and social policy.
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E.
Simon Cameron
Simon Cameron was a 19th-century American politician and influential Republican power broker who served as Abraham Lincoln’s first Secretary of War and later as a long-time U.S. senator from Pennsylvania.
- 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_69aed93c69208190a4efac0efe3cd69b |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aefbd60cc081908764fcc8206bc1ef |
completed | March 9, 2026, 4:56 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b562ac25848190951431c9c853cc59 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 1:29 p.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:38 p.m.