Triple

T5358962
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Black Mass (2015 film) E102772 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object James "Whitey" Bulger
James "Whitey" Bulger was a notorious Boston mob boss and longtime FBI informant whose violent criminal career and eventual capture made him one of the most infamous gangsters in American history.
E514067 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: James "Whitey" Bulger | Statement: [Black Mass (2015 film), mainCharacter, James "Whitey" Bulger]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James "Whitey" Bulger
Context triple: [Black Mass (2015 film), mainCharacter, James "Whitey" Bulger]
  • A. Bulger
    Bulger is a surname most notably associated with former NFL quarterback Marc Bulger and several other prominent American figures.
  • B. Albert DeSalvo
    Albert DeSalvo was an American criminal who confessed to being the "Boston Strangler," a notorious serial killer linked to a series of murders in the Boston area during the early 1960s.
  • C. Frank Sheeran
    Frank Sheeran was an American labor union official and alleged mob hitman best known for his claimed involvement in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, as depicted in the film "The Irishman."
  • D. Crazy Joe Gallo
    Crazy Joe Gallo was a notorious New York City mobster and hitman associated with the Colombo crime family during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Frank Costello
    Frank Costello was a powerful Italian-American mob boss and political fixer who led the Luciano crime family and became known as the "Prime Minister of the Underworld" in mid-20th-century New York.
  • 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: James "Whitey" Bulger
Triple: [Black Mass (2015 film), mainCharacter, James "Whitey" Bulger]
Generated description
James "Whitey" Bulger was a notorious Boston mob boss and longtime FBI informant whose violent criminal career and eventual capture made him one of the most infamous gangsters in American history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James "Whitey" Bulger
Target entity description: James "Whitey" Bulger was a notorious Boston mob boss and longtime FBI informant whose violent criminal career and eventual capture made him one of the most infamous gangsters in American history.
  • A. Bulger
    Bulger is a surname most notably associated with former NFL quarterback Marc Bulger and several other prominent American figures.
  • B. Albert DeSalvo
    Albert DeSalvo was an American criminal who confessed to being the "Boston Strangler," a notorious serial killer linked to a series of murders in the Boston area during the early 1960s.
  • C. Frank Sheeran
    Frank Sheeran was an American labor union official and alleged mob hitman best known for his claimed involvement in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, as depicted in the film "The Irishman."
  • D. Crazy Joe Gallo
    Crazy Joe Gallo was a notorious New York City mobster and hitman associated with the Colombo crime family during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Frank Costello
    Frank Costello was a powerful Italian-American mob boss and political fixer who led the Luciano crime family and became known as the "Prime Minister of the Underworld" in mid-20th-century New York.
  • 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_69bd43d8f7248190b64c140734b5c9a8 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd8631ca2c8190856258bf340f6e5d completed March 20, 2026, 5:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf21e955a8819094a0b12e42e2d6a6 completed March 21, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf23d9ca3881909bfc0a2e99164450 completed March 21, 2026, 11:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf243319448190a30d6e8847d3f4b8 completed March 21, 2026, 11:05 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:02 p.m.