Triple

T21841954
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Antonio J. Mendez E539275 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War 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: Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War | Statement: [Antonio J. Mendez, notableWork, Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War
Context triple: [Antonio J. Mendez, notableWork, Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War]
  • A. From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War
    From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War is a memoir and historical account by former U.S. intelligence and defense official Robert M. Gates, offering an inside look at American foreign policy and covert operations across multiple administrations during the Cold War.
  • B. The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War
    "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War" is a non-fiction book recounting the true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun, who exposed a secret U.S.-U.K. operation to manipulate United Nations support for the 2003 Iraq invasion.
  • C. The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine
    The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine is a non-fiction book by Andrew Cockburn that critically examines and debunks Western misconceptions about the strength and capabilities of the Soviet armed forces during the Cold War.
  • D. The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945
    The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945 is a historical study by Max Hastings that examines the intelligence operations, codebreaking efforts, and resistance movements that shaped the outcome of the Second World War.
  • E. The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence
    The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence is a groundbreaking 1974 exposé that critically examines the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s secret operations and abuses of power, co-authored by Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks.
  • 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: Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War
Target entity description: "Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War" is a nonfiction book in which former CIA master of disguise Antonio J. Mendez details clandestine tradecraft, surveillance countermeasures, and covert operations used during the Cold War.
  • A. From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War
    From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War is a memoir and historical account by former U.S. intelligence and defense official Robert M. Gates, offering an inside look at American foreign policy and covert operations across multiple administrations during the Cold War.
  • B. The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War
    "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War" is a non-fiction book recounting the true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun, who exposed a secret U.S.-U.K. operation to manipulate United Nations support for the 2003 Iraq invasion.
  • C. The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine
    The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine is a non-fiction book by Andrew Cockburn that critically examines and debunks Western misconceptions about the strength and capabilities of the Soviet armed forces during the Cold War.
  • D. The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945
    The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945 is a historical study by Max Hastings that examines the intelligence operations, codebreaking efforts, and resistance movements that shaped the outcome of the Second World War.
  • E. The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence
    The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence is a groundbreaking 1974 exposé that critically examines the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s secret operations and abuses of power, co-authored by Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks.
  • 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_69e0c476c3c88190a92d08ebb59a128a completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f0a7acb17c81908c0de0afac5a9fa7 completed April 28, 2026, 12:27 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:55 p.m.