Triple

T11531250
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Scott Armstrong E273426 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras
The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras is a detailed investigative book that reconstructs the Iran-Contra affair through a meticulous, date-by-date record of covert U.S. operations.
E932059 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: The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras | Statement: [Scott Armstrong, notableWork, The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras
Context triple: [Scott Armstrong, notableWork, The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras]
  • A. The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History
    The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History is a documentary collection and analytical volume that compiles and interprets declassified U.S. government documents to illuminate the origins, operations, and cover-up of the Iran-Contra affair.
  • B. Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981–1987
    Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981–1987 is a non-fiction book by investigative journalist Bob Woodward that examines the covert operations, internal politics, and controversies of the CIA during the Reagan administration.
  • C. Iran–Contra affair
    The Iran–Contra affair was a major 1980s U.S. political scandal in which senior officials secretly facilitated arms sales to Iran and diverted the proceeds to fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua, circumventing congressional restrictions.
  • D. School of the Americas Watch
    School of the Americas Watch is a U.S.-based grassroots advocacy organization that campaigns to close the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas (now WHINSEC) and end U.S. military training linked to human rights abuses in Latin America.
  • E. Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
    Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala is a historical and political analysis book that examines the 1954 U.S.-backed overthrow of Guatemala’s democratically elected government and its lasting consequences.
  • 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: The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras
Triple: [Scott Armstrong, notableWork, The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras]
Generated description
The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras is a detailed investigative book that reconstructs the Iran-Contra affair through a meticulous, date-by-date record of covert U.S. operations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras
Target entity description: The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras is a detailed investigative book that reconstructs the Iran-Contra affair through a meticulous, date-by-date record of covert U.S. operations.
  • A. The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History
    The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History is a documentary collection and analytical volume that compiles and interprets declassified U.S. government documents to illuminate the origins, operations, and cover-up of the Iran-Contra affair.
  • B. Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981–1987
    Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981–1987 is a non-fiction book by investigative journalist Bob Woodward that examines the covert operations, internal politics, and controversies of the CIA during the Reagan administration.
  • C. Iran–Contra affair
    The Iran–Contra affair was a major 1980s U.S. political scandal in which senior officials secretly facilitated arms sales to Iran and diverted the proceeds to fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua, circumventing congressional restrictions.
  • D. School of the Americas Watch
    School of the Americas Watch is a U.S.-based grassroots advocacy organization that campaigns to close the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas (now WHINSEC) and end U.S. military training linked to human rights abuses in Latin America.
  • E. Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
    Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala is a historical and political analysis book that examines the 1954 U.S.-backed overthrow of Guatemala’s democratically elected government and its lasting consequences.
  • 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_69d6aae3fbec8190a14632a5df2538b6 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8839878948190b170e64629d6f2db completed April 10, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e6856341b481909d2ee71893e6117b completed April 20, 2026, 7:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e68fd6b6088190b24f552b5afc3f55 completed April 20, 2026, 8:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e6b7d683448190b7557bffd92b3ad6 completed April 20, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:37 p.m.