Triple

T7112728
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Office of Special Counsel E165743 entity
Predicate legalAuthority P125 FINISHED
Object Whistleblower Protection Act
The Whistleblower Protection Act is a U.S. federal law that safeguards federal employees who disclose evidence of wrongdoing from retaliation by their employers.
E642825 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: Whistleblower Protection Act | Statement: [Office of Special Counsel, legalAuthority, Whistleblower Protection Act]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whistleblower Protection Act
Context triple: [Office of Special Counsel, legalAuthority, Whistleblower Protection Act]
  • A. McClure-Volkmer Act
    The McClure-Volkmer Act is a 1986 U.S. federal law that revised and relaxed certain gun control provisions while adding new regulations on firearms sales and ownership.
  • B. Ethics in Government Act
    The Ethics in Government Act is a U.S. federal law enacted in 1978 that established financial disclosure requirements for public officials and created mechanisms such as the Office of Government Ethics and the independent counsel to promote transparency and prevent conflicts of interest in government.
  • C. Freedom of Information Act
    The Freedom of Information Act is a U.S. law that grants the public the right to access records from federal government agencies, promoting transparency and accountability.
  • D. PROTECT Act
    The PROTECT Act is a U.S. federal law aimed primarily at strengthening protections for children against sexual exploitation, abuse, and abduction, including tougher penalties for related offenses.
  • E. Privacy Act of 1974
    The Privacy Act of 1974 is a U.S. federal law that governs how federal agencies collect, maintain, use, and disclose individuals’ personal information, granting citizens rights to access and correct records about themselves.
  • 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: Whistleblower Protection Act
Triple: [Office of Special Counsel, legalAuthority, Whistleblower Protection Act]
Generated description
The Whistleblower Protection Act is a U.S. federal law that safeguards federal employees who disclose evidence of wrongdoing from retaliation by their employers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whistleblower Protection Act
Target entity description: The Whistleblower Protection Act is a U.S. federal law that safeguards federal employees who disclose evidence of wrongdoing from retaliation by their employers.
  • A. McClure-Volkmer Act
    The McClure-Volkmer Act is a 1986 U.S. federal law that revised and relaxed certain gun control provisions while adding new regulations on firearms sales and ownership.
  • B. Ethics in Government Act
    The Ethics in Government Act is a U.S. federal law enacted in 1978 that established financial disclosure requirements for public officials and created mechanisms such as the Office of Government Ethics and the independent counsel to promote transparency and prevent conflicts of interest in government.
  • C. Freedom of Information Act
    The Freedom of Information Act is a U.S. law that grants the public the right to access records from federal government agencies, promoting transparency and accountability.
  • D. PROTECT Act
    The PROTECT Act is a U.S. federal law aimed primarily at strengthening protections for children against sexual exploitation, abuse, and abduction, including tougher penalties for related offenses.
  • E. Privacy Act of 1974
    The Privacy Act of 1974 is a U.S. federal law that governs how federal agencies collect, maintain, use, and disclose individuals’ personal information, granting citizens rights to access and correct records about themselves.
  • 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_69c6888120f081908f8f01b201dc4a4c completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e5edf89c8190a069b35ff7768165 completed March 27, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c79cbc35d48190974e207eb98dcbe3 completed March 28, 2026, 9:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c79d31a9e8819096e6a3040b1852a9 completed March 28, 2026, 9:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c79dcae54c8190b06e687236373f68 completed March 28, 2026, 9:22 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:43 p.m.