Triple

T5435195
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Iran hostage crisis E121990 entity
Predicate mainPerpetrator P698 FINISHED
Object Iranian student militants
Iranian student militants were radical Islamist university students in Iran who seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held American diplomats hostage, becoming a central force in the early phase of the Iranian Revolution.
E519439 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: Iranian student militants | Statement: [Iran hostage crisis, mainPerpetrator, Iranian student militants]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Iranian student militants
Context triple: [Iran hostage crisis, mainPerpetrator, Iranian student militants]
  • A. Fedayeen
    Fedayeen is a term used in the Middle East to describe guerrilla fighters or commandos who undertake high-risk or self-sacrificial missions, often for nationalist or ideological causes.
  • B. National Union of Students in Iran
    The National Union of Students in Iran is a prominent Iranian student organization known for its activism in promoting democracy, human rights, and academic freedom in the country.
  • C. Mahdi Army
    The Mahdi Army was a powerful Shiite militia in Iraq, led by cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, that played a major role in the post-2003 insurgency and sectarian conflict.
  • D. Iranian Embassy siege
    The Iranian Embassy siege was a 1980 hostage crisis in London that ended with a high-profile counterterrorism assault by the British Special Air Service (SAS), broadcast live on television.
  • E. Sadrist militias
    Sadrist militias are Shiite armed groups in Iraq loyal to cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, known for their major role in post-2003 sectarian conflict and resistance to U.S. and Iraqi government forces.
  • 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: Iranian student militants
Triple: [Iran hostage crisis, mainPerpetrator, Iranian student militants]
Generated description
Iranian student militants were radical Islamist university students in Iran who seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held American diplomats hostage, becoming a central force in the early phase of the Iranian Revolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Iranian student militants
Target entity description: Iranian student militants were radical Islamist university students in Iran who seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held American diplomats hostage, becoming a central force in the early phase of the Iranian Revolution.
  • A. Fedayeen
    Fedayeen is a term used in the Middle East to describe guerrilla fighters or commandos who undertake high-risk or self-sacrificial missions, often for nationalist or ideological causes.
  • B. National Union of Students in Iran
    The National Union of Students in Iran is a prominent Iranian student organization known for its activism in promoting democracy, human rights, and academic freedom in the country.
  • C. Mahdi Army
    The Mahdi Army was a powerful Shiite militia in Iraq, led by cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, that played a major role in the post-2003 insurgency and sectarian conflict.
  • D. Iranian Embassy siege
    The Iranian Embassy siege was a 1980 hostage crisis in London that ended with a high-profile counterterrorism assault by the British Special Air Service (SAS), broadcast live on television.
  • E. Sadrist militias
    Sadrist militias are Shiite armed groups in Iraq loyal to cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, known for their major role in post-2003 sectarian conflict and resistance to U.S. and Iraqi government forces.
  • 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_69bd46400768819092925d461c0b8432 completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd91b099488190b4c5f1cea3f45d57 completed March 20, 2026, 6:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf3acfd0408190877fbe41f1dc45ba completed March 22, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf3c4f3e288190bab81e761017f015 completed March 22, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf3cde5004819096988c61b45958ea completed March 22, 2026, 12:50 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:06 p.m.