Triple
T1302893
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Alfred W. McCoy |
E27806
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State is a historical study examining how U.S. colonial rule in the Philippines helped pioneer modern systems of surveillance, intelligence, and counterinsurgency that later shaped American domestic and global security practices.
|
E148760
|
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: Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State | Statement: [Alfred W. McCoy, notableWork, Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State Context triple: [Alfred W. McCoy, notableWork, Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State]
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A.
A People’s History of American Empire
A People’s History of American Empire is a graphic history book that adapts Howard Zinn’s radical, bottom-up account of U.S. imperialism and foreign policy for a broad, visually driven audience.
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B.
The American Empire Project
The American Empire Project is a book series that critically examines U.S. foreign policy, militarism, and global dominance from a left-leaning, often anti-imperialist perspective.
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C.
American Power and the New Mandarins
American Power and the New Mandarins is a 1969 collection of political essays by Noam Chomsky that sharply criticizes U.S. foreign policy and intellectual complicity in the Vietnam War.
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D.
Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War
"Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War" is a nonfiction book by historian and former Army officer Andrew Bacevich that critiques the bipartisan U.S. foreign policy consensus and argues it has entrenched a self-perpetuating state of endless military intervention.
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E.
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty is a political economy book that explores how the balance between state power and societal forces shapes the emergence and preservation of freedom across different countries and historical periods.
- 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: Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State Triple: [Alfred W. McCoy, notableWork, Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State]
Generated description
Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State is a historical study examining how U.S. colonial rule in the Philippines helped pioneer modern systems of surveillance, intelligence, and counterinsurgency that later shaped American domestic and global security practices.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State Target entity description: Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State is a historical study examining how U.S. colonial rule in the Philippines helped pioneer modern systems of surveillance, intelligence, and counterinsurgency that later shaped American domestic and global security practices.
-
A.
A People’s History of American Empire
A People’s History of American Empire is a graphic history book that adapts Howard Zinn’s radical, bottom-up account of U.S. imperialism and foreign policy for a broad, visually driven audience.
-
B.
The American Empire Project
The American Empire Project is a book series that critically examines U.S. foreign policy, militarism, and global dominance from a left-leaning, often anti-imperialist perspective.
-
C.
American Power and the New Mandarins
American Power and the New Mandarins is a 1969 collection of political essays by Noam Chomsky that sharply criticizes U.S. foreign policy and intellectual complicity in the Vietnam War.
-
D.
Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War
"Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War" is a nonfiction book by historian and former Army officer Andrew Bacevich that critiques the bipartisan U.S. foreign policy consensus and argues it has entrenched a self-perpetuating state of endless military intervention.
-
E.
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty is a political economy book that explores how the balance between state power and societal forces shapes the emergence and preservation of freedom across different countries and historical periods.
- 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_69a496d7d83481908f83085854e51328 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4c116d7d881908ee631258f80980e |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:43 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69acb3046a888190956f6bedb6ec589f |
completed | March 7, 2026, 11:21 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69acb370c7cc81908a78bb5438416db6 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 11:23 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69acb409b4d0819081266cf3e6c09164 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 11:26 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.