Triple

T182785
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McCarthyism E3913 entity
Predicate hasMainProponent P4951 FINISHED
Object Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy was a U.S. senator from Wisconsin best known for leading aggressive anti-communist investigations in the early 1950s that fueled a climate of political fear and repression.
E23003 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: Joseph McCarthy | Statement: [McCarthyism, hasMainProponent, Joseph McCarthy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph McCarthy
Context triple: [McCarthyism, hasMainProponent, Joseph McCarthy]
  • A. J. Edgar Hoover
    J. Edgar Hoover was the long-serving and controversial first Director of the FBI, known for shaping modern American law enforcement and for his extensive domestic intelligence operations.
  • B. Eugene E. Covert
    Eugene E. Covert was an American aeronautical engineer and MIT professor who served as the chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force and was a noted expert in fluid mechanics and aerospace technology.
  • C. Joseph T. Robinson
    Joseph T. Robinson was an influential Arkansas Democratic politician who served as U.S. Senate Majority Leader and was the party’s vice-presidential nominee in 1928.
  • D. H. R. Haldeman
    H. R. Haldeman was a powerful and influential aide to President Richard Nixon, best known for his central role in the Watergate scandal.
  • E. Henry Wade
    Henry Wade was the Dallas County district attorney whose role in enforcing Texas abortion laws led to his being the named respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade.
  • 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: Joseph McCarthy
Triple: [McCarthyism, hasMainProponent, Joseph McCarthy]
Generated description
Joseph McCarthy was a U.S. senator from Wisconsin best known for leading aggressive anti-communist investigations in the early 1950s that fueled a climate of political fear and repression.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph McCarthy
Target entity description: Joseph McCarthy was a U.S. senator from Wisconsin best known for leading aggressive anti-communist investigations in the early 1950s that fueled a climate of political fear and repression.
  • A. J. Edgar Hoover
    J. Edgar Hoover was the long-serving and controversial first Director of the FBI, known for shaping modern American law enforcement and for his extensive domestic intelligence operations.
  • B. Eugene E. Covert
    Eugene E. Covert was an American aeronautical engineer and MIT professor who served as the chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force and was a noted expert in fluid mechanics and aerospace technology.
  • C. Joseph T. Robinson
    Joseph T. Robinson was an influential Arkansas Democratic politician who served as U.S. Senate Majority Leader and was the party’s vice-presidential nominee in 1928.
  • D. H. R. Haldeman
    H. R. Haldeman was a powerful and influential aide to President Richard Nixon, best known for his central role in the Watergate scandal.
  • E. Henry Wade
    Henry Wade was the Dallas County district attorney whose role in enforcing Texas abortion laws led to his being the named respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade.
  • 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_69a25497e2f08190a040f8c6e1842643 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25bc834388190a93ec1ab0d5946de completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2fa7e41c88190bf15f5223d215ab8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2fb08e6bc81908d6067dcc9c9ffc9 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2fb66d9188190b8de873fdb523f8f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:27 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:40 a.m.