Triple

T1308609
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sorrows of Empire E27936 entity
Predicate follows P134 FINISHED
Object Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire is a nonfiction book by Chalmers Johnson that critiques U.S. foreign policy and explores how American military and economic interventions abroad generate unintended and often violent repercussions.
E150184 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: Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire | Statement: [Sorrows of Empire, follows, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
Context triple: [Sorrows of Empire, follows, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire]
  • A. Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
    Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq is a historical nonfiction book that examines a series of U.S.-backed coups and interventions abroad over more than a century and their long-term global consequences.
  • B. In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power
    *In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power* is a historical and geopolitical study that examines how the United States built its global dominance and why that power is now in relative decline.
  • C. 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.
  • D. The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
    "The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic" is a non-fiction book by Chalmers Johnson that critiques U.S. imperial overreach, permanent war, and the erosion of American democracy.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
Triple: [Sorrows of Empire, follows, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire]
Generated description
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire is a nonfiction book by Chalmers Johnson that critiques U.S. foreign policy and explores how American military and economic interventions abroad generate unintended and often violent repercussions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
Target entity description: Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire is a nonfiction book by Chalmers Johnson that critiques U.S. foreign policy and explores how American military and economic interventions abroad generate unintended and often violent repercussions.
  • A. Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
    Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq is a historical nonfiction book that examines a series of U.S.-backed coups and interventions abroad over more than a century and their long-term global consequences.
  • B. In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power
    *In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power* is a historical and geopolitical study that examines how the United States built its global dominance and why that power is now in relative decline.
  • C. 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.
  • D. The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
    "The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic" is a non-fiction book by Chalmers Johnson that critiques U.S. imperial overreach, permanent war, and the erosion of American democracy.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69a4c13806b48190a0db33f8e5d53734 completed March 1, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acbaec736881909645919764d73f5f completed March 7, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acbbe67f0881908796ae064e72571d completed March 7, 2026, 11:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acbc8c3cc88190a0764b8d306b40ab completed March 8, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.