Triple
T12492504
| 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 held senior positions in the U.S. intelligence community |
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 held senior positions in the U.S. intelligence community | Statement: [From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War, authorBackground, Robert M. Gates held senior positions in the U.S. intelligence community]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert M. Gates held senior positions in the U.S. intelligence community Context triple: [From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War, authorBackground, Robert M. Gates held senior positions in the U.S. intelligence community]
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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.
National Security Agency leadership
National Security Agency leadership is the senior command structure responsible for directing, overseeing, and setting policy for the NSA’s intelligence, cybersecurity, and signals intelligence operations.
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C.
David Petraeus
David Petraeus is a retired four-star U.S. Army general and former CIA Director best known for leading coalition forces during the Iraq War and shaping modern counterinsurgency strategy.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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.