Triple
T12330374
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Mark Perry (historian) |
E293942
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object |
The Pentagon’s Wars: The Military’s Undeclared War Against America’s Presidents
The Pentagon’s Wars: The Military’s Undeclared War Against America’s Presidents is a nonfiction book by historian Mark Perry that examines the often tense and covert power struggles between U.S. military leaders and successive presidents over the conduct of American wars.
|
E976089
|
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 Pentagon’s Wars: The Military’s Undeclared War Against America’s Presidents | Statement: [Mark Perry (historian), notableWork, The Pentagon’s Wars: The Military’s Undeclared War Against America’s Presidents]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Pentagon’s Wars: The Military’s Undeclared War Against America’s Presidents Context triple: [Mark Perry (historian), notableWork, The Pentagon’s Wars: The Military’s Undeclared War Against America’s Presidents]
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A.
Fighting for Peace: Seven Critical Years in the Pentagon
Fighting for Peace: Seven Critical Years in the Pentagon is a memoir by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger recounting his experiences and policy decisions during the Reagan administration.
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B.
The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War
The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War is a critical examination of how U.S. culture, politics, and religion have combined to normalize and glorify military power in American life and foreign policy.
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C.
Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country
Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country is a nonfiction book by Andrew Bacevich that critiques the disconnect between the American public, its political leaders, and the all-volunteer military in the era of perpetual war.
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D.
Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine
Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine is a nonfiction book that investigates how the U.S. military-industrial complex is driven by profit and bureaucracy rather than genuine security needs.
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E.
The Pentagon Wars
The Pentagon Wars is a satirical 1998 HBO film that critiques U.S. military bureaucracy and weapons procurement through the story of the troubled development of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
- 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 Pentagon’s Wars: The Military’s Undeclared War Against America’s Presidents Triple: [Mark Perry (historian), notableWork, The Pentagon’s Wars: The Military’s Undeclared War Against America’s Presidents]
Generated description
The Pentagon’s Wars: The Military’s Undeclared War Against America’s Presidents is a nonfiction book by historian Mark Perry that examines the often tense and covert power struggles between U.S. military leaders and successive presidents over the conduct of American wars.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Pentagon’s Wars: The Military’s Undeclared War Against America’s Presidents Target entity description: The Pentagon’s Wars: The Military’s Undeclared War Against America’s Presidents is a nonfiction book by historian Mark Perry that examines the often tense and covert power struggles between U.S. military leaders and successive presidents over the conduct of American wars.
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A.
Fighting for Peace: Seven Critical Years in the Pentagon
Fighting for Peace: Seven Critical Years in the Pentagon is a memoir by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger recounting his experiences and policy decisions during the Reagan administration.
-
B.
The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War
The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War is a critical examination of how U.S. culture, politics, and religion have combined to normalize and glorify military power in American life and foreign policy.
-
C.
Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country
Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country is a nonfiction book by Andrew Bacevich that critiques the disconnect between the American public, its political leaders, and the all-volunteer military in the era of perpetual war.
-
D.
Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine
Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine is a nonfiction book that investigates how the U.S. military-industrial complex is driven by profit and bureaucracy rather than genuine security needs.
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E.
The Pentagon Wars
The Pentagon Wars is a satirical 1998 HBO film that critiques U.S. military bureaucracy and weapons procurement through the story of the troubled development of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
- 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_69d6ab6ae0dc8190b1522a9c1c55c114 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d93f634ee08190b4f533505d402219 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 6:20 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f61e9114f48190988b84eaec2e810f |
completed | May 2, 2026, 3:56 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69f61fd2429c8190a8a7c46c312e262d |
completed | May 2, 2026, 4:01 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69f623fbb32081909b7daa515eebf75d |
completed | May 2, 2026, 4:19 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:53 p.m.