Triple

T9668356
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pershing Square Holdings E233761 entity
Predicate hasSignificantShareholderRoleIn P14887 FINISHED
Object Valeant Pharmaceuticals
Valeant Pharmaceuticals was a controversial multinational specialty pharmaceutical company known for aggressive drug price hikes, rapid growth through acquisitions, and subsequent accounting and regulatory scandals.
 E813059 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: Valeant Pharmaceuticals | Statement: [Pershing Square Holdings, hasSignificantShareholderRoleIn, Valeant Pharmaceuticals]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Valeant Pharmaceuticals
Context triple: [Pershing Square Holdings, hasSignificantShareholderRoleIn, Valeant Pharmaceuticals]
  • A. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
    Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is a global pharmaceutical company based in Israel, best known as one of the world’s largest manufacturers of generic medicines and a producer of specialty and over-the-counter drugs.
  • B. Bristol Myers Squibb
    Bristol Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical company known for developing and manufacturing innovative medicines in areas such as oncology, immunology, and cardiovascular disease.
  • C. Novartis
    Novartis is a global Swiss-based pharmaceutical company known for developing innovative medicines across a wide range of therapeutic areas.
  • D. Alkermes
    Alkermes is a biopharmaceutical company that develops innovative medicines for central nervous system disorders and other serious chronic diseases.
  • E. Merck & Co.
    Merck & Co. is a major American pharmaceutical company known for developing and producing vaccines, oncology drugs, and other innovative medicines.
  • 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: Valeant Pharmaceuticals
Triple: [Pershing Square Holdings, hasSignificantShareholderRoleIn, Valeant Pharmaceuticals]
Generated description
Valeant Pharmaceuticals was a controversial multinational specialty pharmaceutical company known for aggressive drug price hikes, rapid growth through acquisitions, and subsequent accounting and regulatory scandals.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Valeant Pharmaceuticals
Target entity description: Valeant Pharmaceuticals was a controversial multinational specialty pharmaceutical company known for aggressive drug price hikes, rapid growth through acquisitions, and subsequent accounting and regulatory scandals.
  • A. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
    Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is a global pharmaceutical company based in Israel, best known as one of the world’s largest manufacturers of generic medicines and a producer of specialty and over-the-counter drugs.
  • B. Bristol Myers Squibb
    Bristol Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical company known for developing and manufacturing innovative medicines in areas such as oncology, immunology, and cardiovascular disease.
  • C. Novartis
    Novartis is a global Swiss-based pharmaceutical company known for developing innovative medicines across a wide range of therapeutic areas.
  • D. Alkermes
    Alkermes is a biopharmaceutical company that develops innovative medicines for central nervous system disorders and other serious chronic diseases.
  • E. Merck & Co.
    Merck & Co. is a major American pharmaceutical company known for developing and producing vaccines, oncology drugs, and other innovative medicines.
  • 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_69ca848d3b6c8190ae98ea554dea58df completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9c3c06e4819080c1b8e66faa482f completed April 1, 2026, 10:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d18a208798819088db055e44d288e3 completed April 4, 2026, 10:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d18ab1239c8190b4a66ccd0db35ffb completed April 4, 2026, 10:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d18b7f7510819083a402d6802c7d95 completed April 4, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:15 p.m.