Triple

T22777117
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Operation El Dorado Canyon E563731 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object 1986 United States bombing of Libya
The 1986 United States bombing of Libya was a series of air strikes carried out by the U.S. against Libyan targets in response to alleged Libyan involvement in international terrorism, including the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque.
E1553714 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: 1986 United States bombing of Libya | Statement: [Operation El Dorado Canyon, alsoKnownAs, 1986 United States bombing of Libya]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1986 United States bombing of Libya
Context triple: [Operation El Dorado Canyon, alsoKnownAs, 1986 United States bombing of Libya]
  • A. 1998 United States embassy bombings
    The 1998 United States embassy bombings were coordinated truck bomb attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed hundreds of people and marked one of al-Qaeda’s earliest large-scale international terrorist operations.
  • B. 1984 United States embassy annex bombing in Beirut
    The 1984 United States embassy annex bombing in Beirut was a major Hezbollah-linked terrorist attack targeting the U.S. diplomatic mission in Lebanon, killing and injuring dozens and highlighting the vulnerability of American facilities abroad.
  • C. Gulf of Sidra incident 1986
    The Gulf of Sidra incident of 1986 was a Cold War-era military confrontation in which U.S. naval and air forces clashed with Libya over contested territorial waters, resulting in the downing of Libyan aircraft.
  • D. Lockerbie bombing diplomatic crisis
    The Lockerbie bombing diplomatic crisis was the prolonged international standoff in the 1990s and early 2000s over Libya’s responsibility for the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, involving UN sanctions, negotiations over suspects’ trials, and eventual compensation agreements.
  • E. 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut
    The 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut was a major suicide truck bombing that devastated the U.S. diplomatic mission in Lebanon, killing dozens and marking one of the earliest large-scale attacks against American targets in the Middle East.
  • 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: 1986 United States bombing of Libya
Triple: [Operation El Dorado Canyon, alsoKnownAs, 1986 United States bombing of Libya]
Generated description
The 1986 United States bombing of Libya was a series of air strikes carried out by the U.S. against Libyan targets in response to alleged Libyan involvement in international terrorism, including the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1986 United States bombing of Libya
Target entity description: The 1986 United States bombing of Libya was a series of air strikes carried out by the U.S. against Libyan targets in response to alleged Libyan involvement in international terrorism, including the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque.
  • A. 1998 United States embassy bombings
    The 1998 United States embassy bombings were coordinated truck bomb attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed hundreds of people and marked one of al-Qaeda’s earliest large-scale international terrorist operations.
  • B. 1984 United States embassy annex bombing in Beirut
    The 1984 United States embassy annex bombing in Beirut was a major Hezbollah-linked terrorist attack targeting the U.S. diplomatic mission in Lebanon, killing and injuring dozens and highlighting the vulnerability of American facilities abroad.
  • C. Gulf of Sidra incident 1986
    The Gulf of Sidra incident of 1986 was a Cold War-era military confrontation in which U.S. naval and air forces clashed with Libya over contested territorial waters, resulting in the downing of Libyan aircraft.
  • D. Lockerbie bombing diplomatic crisis
    The Lockerbie bombing diplomatic crisis was the prolonged international standoff in the 1990s and early 2000s over Libya’s responsibility for the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, involving UN sanctions, negotiations over suspects’ trials, and eventual compensation agreements.
  • E. 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut
    The 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut was a major suicide truck bombing that devastated the U.S. diplomatic mission in Lebanon, killing dozens and marking one of the earliest large-scale attacks against American targets in the Middle East.
  • 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_69e24554497c819080b996e071de27c2 completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f17b6260a8819080e57481281dfe40 completed April 29, 2026, 3:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b9824f4108190b430ea2138a57ba0 completed May 18, 2026, 10:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b9970f0388190a71f234f8022fc3e completed May 18, 2026, 10:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b9a1129c8819084163353accc7e14 completed May 18, 2026, 11 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:28 p.m.