Triple

T11063863
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rashid Khalidi E261571 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East
"Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East" is a historical and political analysis by Rashid Khalidi that examines how U.S. and Soviet Cold War policies shaped conflicts and power dynamics across the modern Middle East.
E903098 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: Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East | Statement: [Rashid Khalidi, notableWork, Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East
Context triple: [Rashid Khalidi, notableWork, Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East]
  • A. Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East
    "Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East" is a policy-focused book by veteran U.S. diplomat Dennis Ross that critiques prevailing misconceptions about the Arab-Israeli conflict and proposes a pragmatic framework for American engagement in the region.
  • B. America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
    America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History is a critical historical analysis that traces and critiques the United States’ military involvement in the Greater Middle East from the late 20th century onward.
  • C. Great Power politics in the Middle East
    Great Power politics in the Middle East is a scholarly work analyzing how the strategic interests and rivalries of major world powers have shaped the political landscape of the modern Middle East.
  • D. America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity
    America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity is a historical study that reinterprets U.S. Cold War policy as driven largely by domestic political pressures and anxieties rather than purely by external threats.
  • E. Iraq, Afghanistan and the Imperialism of Our Time
    "Iraq, Afghanistan and the Imperialism of Our Time" is a political analysis book by Marxist critic Aijaz Ahmad that examines U.S.-led wars in the Middle East as expressions of contemporary imperialism.
  • 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: Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East
Triple: [Rashid Khalidi, notableWork, Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East]
Generated description
"Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East" is a historical and political analysis by Rashid Khalidi that examines how U.S. and Soviet Cold War policies shaped conflicts and power dynamics across the modern Middle East.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East
Target entity description: "Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East" is a historical and political analysis by Rashid Khalidi that examines how U.S. and Soviet Cold War policies shaped conflicts and power dynamics across the modern Middle East.
  • A. Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East
    "Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East" is a policy-focused book by veteran U.S. diplomat Dennis Ross that critiques prevailing misconceptions about the Arab-Israeli conflict and proposes a pragmatic framework for American engagement in the region.
  • B. America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
    America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History is a critical historical analysis that traces and critiques the United States’ military involvement in the Greater Middle East from the late 20th century onward.
  • C. Great Power politics in the Middle East
    Great Power politics in the Middle East is a scholarly work analyzing how the strategic interests and rivalries of major world powers have shaped the political landscape of the modern Middle East.
  • D. America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity
    America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity is a historical study that reinterprets U.S. Cold War policy as driven largely by domestic political pressures and anxieties rather than purely by external threats.
  • E. Iraq, Afghanistan and the Imperialism of Our Time
    "Iraq, Afghanistan and the Imperialism of Our Time" is a political analysis book by Marxist critic Aijaz Ahmad that examines U.S.-led wars in the Middle East as expressions of contemporary imperialism.
  • 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_69d6aa98650481908609c7c56bfa7902 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d798ed07f88190bf501d9f63386ada completed April 9, 2026, 12:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e3c8977f98819082dec025e92782da completed April 18, 2026, 6:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e3cadf271081908d2b794a4288892a completed April 18, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3cf1f508c81909b4ca8131b7fc9ee completed April 18, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:26 p.m.