Triple
T23029820
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine |
E573425
|
entity |
| Predicate | centralClaim |
P533
|
FINISHED |
| Object | the U.S. military–industrial complex is driven by profit and bureaucracy rather than genuine security needs |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: the U.S. military–industrial complex is driven by profit and bureaucracy rather than genuine security needs | Statement: [Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine, centralClaim, the U.S. military–industrial complex is driven by profit and bureaucracy rather than genuine security needs]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: the U.S. military–industrial complex is driven by profit and bureaucracy rather than genuine security needs Context triple: [Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine, centralClaim, the U.S. military–industrial complex is driven by profit and bureaucracy rather than genuine security needs]
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A.
military–industrial complex
The military–industrial complex is the network of relationships between a nation's armed forces, government, and defense industries that drives and benefits from sustained military spending and arms production.
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B.
Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine
chosen
Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine is a nonfiction book that investigates how the U.S. military-industrial complex is driven by profit and bureaucracy rather than genuine security needs.
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C.
U.S. defense industrial base
The U.S. defense industrial base is the nationwide network of companies, facilities, and workers that design, produce, and maintain military equipment and technologies for the United States armed forces.
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D.
U.S. defense acquisition system
The U.S. defense acquisition system is the complex, regulated framework through which the Department of Defense develops, procures, and sustains military equipment and services.
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E.
The Political Economy of National Security
The Political Economy of National Security is a seminal work analyzing how economic factors shape national defense policy and strategic decision-making.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69e245b911188190bc3d96326c847969 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f184803e908190b1e58545b9c3d587 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 4:09 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:53 p.m.