Triple
T21345547
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William E. Odom |
E526323
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entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object | America’s Inadvertent Empire |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: America’s Inadvertent Empire | Statement: [William E. Odom, notableWork, America’s Inadvertent Empire]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: America’s Inadvertent Empire Context triple: [William E. Odom, notableWork, America’s Inadvertent Empire]
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A.
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.
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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.
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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D.
The Paradox of American Power
The Paradox of American Power is a book by political scientist Joseph S. Nye Jr. that analyzes the limits of U.S. dominance and argues for combining military strength with economic and soft power in a globalized world.
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E.
The Decline of the American Empire
The Decline of the American Empire is a 1986 Canadian French-language comedy-drama film directed by Denys Arcand that explores the personal and sexual lives of a group of intellectuals in Montreal.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: America’s Inadvertent Empire Target entity description: America’s Inadvertent Empire is a political analysis book that examines how the United States unintentionally acquired and manages a global empire in the post–Cold War era.
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A.
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.
-
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.
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.
-
D.
The Paradox of American Power
The Paradox of American Power is a book by political scientist Joseph S. Nye Jr. that analyzes the limits of U.S. dominance and argues for combining military strength with economic and soft power in a globalized world.
-
E.
The Decline of the American Empire
The Decline of the American Empire is a 1986 Canadian French-language comedy-drama film directed by Denys Arcand that explores the personal and sexual lives of a group of intellectuals in Montreal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (2 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_69e0b51cd5cc81909ac1187971e8a8ad |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e8a854e8ec81909efd41c1e959cc61 |
completed | April 22, 2026, 10:52 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 4:54 p.m.