Triple

T8231703
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Iran–Contra affair E192307 entity
Predicate follows P134 FINISHED
Object Boland Amendment
The Boland Amendment was a series of U.S. legislative provisions in the early 1980s that restricted American government support for the Contra rebels in Nicaragua, setting the legal backdrop for the Iran–Contra affair.
E720616 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: Boland Amendment | Statement: [Iran–Contra affair, follows, Boland Amendment]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Boland Amendment
Context triple: [Iran–Contra affair, follows, Boland Amendment]
  • A. Powell Amendment
    The Powell Amendment was a legislative proposal introduced by Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. to deny federal funds to institutions that practiced racial discrimination, becoming a key tool in the fight for civil rights in mid-20th-century America.
  • B. Nunn–Cohen Amendment
    The Nunn–Cohen Amendment is a 1987 U.S. law that created a unified special operations command and funding authority, significantly strengthening and institutionalizing American special operations forces.
  • C. Jackson–Vanik amendment
    The Jackson–Vanik amendment is a U.S. Cold War–era trade provision that restricted normal trade relations with non-market economies that limited their citizens’ freedom to emigrate, most notably targeting the Soviet Union.
  • D. Helms–Burton Act
    The Helms–Burton Act is a 1996 U.S. law that tightened and extended the economic embargo against Cuba, including extraterritorial sanctions on foreign companies doing business with the island.
  • E. Hughes Amendment
    The Hughes Amendment is a 1986 U.S. federal provision that effectively banned civilian ownership of newly manufactured fully automatic firearms by freezing the machine gun registry.
  • 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: Boland Amendment
Triple: [Iran–Contra affair, follows, Boland Amendment]
Generated description
The Boland Amendment was a series of U.S. legislative provisions in the early 1980s that restricted American government support for the Contra rebels in Nicaragua, setting the legal backdrop for the Iran–Contra affair.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Boland Amendment
Target entity description: The Boland Amendment was a series of U.S. legislative provisions in the early 1980s that restricted American government support for the Contra rebels in Nicaragua, setting the legal backdrop for the Iran–Contra affair.
  • A. Powell Amendment
    The Powell Amendment was a legislative proposal introduced by Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. to deny federal funds to institutions that practiced racial discrimination, becoming a key tool in the fight for civil rights in mid-20th-century America.
  • B. Nunn–Cohen Amendment
    The Nunn–Cohen Amendment is a 1987 U.S. law that created a unified special operations command and funding authority, significantly strengthening and institutionalizing American special operations forces.
  • C. Jackson–Vanik amendment
    The Jackson–Vanik amendment is a U.S. Cold War–era trade provision that restricted normal trade relations with non-market economies that limited their citizens’ freedom to emigrate, most notably targeting the Soviet Union.
  • D. Helms–Burton Act
    The Helms–Burton Act is a 1996 U.S. law that tightened and extended the economic embargo against Cuba, including extraterritorial sanctions on foreign companies doing business with the island.
  • E. Hughes Amendment
    The Hughes Amendment is a 1986 U.S. federal provision that effectively banned civilian ownership of newly manufactured fully automatic firearms by freezing the machine gun registry.
  • 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_69ca82db5b90819085d1ad7c2e27bfcc completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb7824a6c48190a3abb76c4c3dcc71 completed March 31, 2026, 7:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd34e77fd08190a76f81de96d4e605 completed April 1, 2026, 3:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cd37a290508190b598f96220056041 completed April 1, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd4eb519608190b5d0f534170214b5 completed April 1, 2026, 4:58 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:46 p.m.