Triple
T12492502
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War |
E298599
|
entity |
| Predicate | authorBackground |
P938
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Robert M. Gates served as Director of Central Intelligence |
E61929
|
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: Robert M. Gates served as Director of Central Intelligence | Statement: [From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War, authorBackground, Robert M. Gates served as Director of Central Intelligence]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert M. Gates served as Director of Central Intelligence Context triple: [From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War, authorBackground, Robert M. Gates served as Director of Central Intelligence]
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A.
Robert M. Gates
chosen
Robert M. Gates is an American statesman and intelligence expert who served as U.S. Secretary of Defense under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and previously as Director of Central Intelligence.
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B.
R. James Woolsey Jr.
R. James Woolsey Jr. is an American lawyer, diplomat, and national security expert who served as Director of Central Intelligence under President Bill Clinton in the early 1990s.
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C.
George J. Tenet
George J. Tenet is an American intelligence official who served as the head of the CIA during the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the period surrounding the September 11 attacks and the lead-up to the Iraq War.
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D.
James R. Clapper
James R. Clapper is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general who served as Director of National Intelligence from 2010 to 2017 and held several senior intelligence leadership roles across the U.S. government.
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E.
Director of Central Intelligence
The Director of Central Intelligence was the former head of the U.S. intelligence community and chief executive of the Central Intelligence Agency prior to the role’s reorganization in 2005.
- 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_69d6ada377208190a36011199a4d8558 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d94de3076c81909640c982d520ca6b |
completed | April 10, 2026, 7:22 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f64bab99bc8190abe6dfb7c6a7fe6f |
completed | May 2, 2026, 7:08 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:56 p.m.