Triple
T20877748
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob |
E514064
|
entity |
| Predicate | subject |
P450
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Whitey Bulger |
E514067
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Whitey Bulger | Statement: [Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob, subject, Whitey Bulger]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whitey Bulger Context triple: [Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob, subject, Whitey Bulger]
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A.
James "Whitey" Bulger
chosen
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.
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B.
Lawrence Bulger
Lawrence Bulger was an Irish rugby union international and sportsman active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Bulger
Bulger is a surname most notably associated with former NFL quarterback Marc Bulger and several other prominent American figures.
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D.
Stephen Flemmi
Stephen Flemmi is a notorious Boston mobster and longtime associate of Whitey Bulger who became central to revelations about corrupt ties between the FBI and organized crime.
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E.
Joseph Massino
Joseph Massino is a former New York mob boss who led the Bonanno crime family and became notorious as the first sitting boss of a major American Mafia family to turn government informant.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69e0b4f733f081908a401c0b7beb0b9f |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6c6767ec0819080721e2e75bd0d66 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 12:36 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a091fb7de50819098e0ef8299156950 |
completed | May 17, 2026, 1:54 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:45 p.m.