Triple

T2599389
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joseph S. Nye Jr. E58305 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power
Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power is a seminal book by Joseph S. Nye Jr. that argues the United States’ global influence increasingly depends on “soft power” as well as traditional military and economic strength.
E282651 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: Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power | Statement: [Joseph S. Nye Jr., notableWork, Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power
Context triple: [Joseph S. Nye Jr., notableWork, Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power]
  • A. 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.
  • B. American Power and the New Mandarins
    American Power and the New Mandarins is a 1969 collection of political essays by Noam Chomsky that sharply criticizes U.S. foreign policy and intellectual complicity in the Vietnam War.
  • C. 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.
  • D. The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives
    "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives" is a 1997 geopolitical analysis book by Zbigniew Brzezinski that outlines a strategy for maintaining U.S. global dominance, particularly through control and influence in Eurasia.
  • E. The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
    The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty is a political economy book that explores how the balance between state power and societal forces shapes the emergence and preservation of freedom across different countries and historical periods.
  • 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: Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power
Triple: [Joseph S. Nye Jr., notableWork, Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power]
Generated description
Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power is a seminal book by Joseph S. Nye Jr. that argues the United States’ global influence increasingly depends on “soft power” as well as traditional military and economic strength.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power
Target entity description: Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power is a seminal book by Joseph S. Nye Jr. that argues the United States’ global influence increasingly depends on “soft power” as well as traditional military and economic strength.
  • A. 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.
  • B. American Power and the New Mandarins
    American Power and the New Mandarins is a 1969 collection of political essays by Noam Chomsky that sharply criticizes U.S. foreign policy and intellectual complicity in the Vietnam War.
  • C. 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.
  • D. The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives
    "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives" is a 1997 geopolitical analysis book by Zbigniew Brzezinski that outlines a strategy for maintaining U.S. global dominance, particularly through control and influence in Eurasia.
  • E. The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
    The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty is a political economy book that explores how the balance between state power and societal forces shapes the emergence and preservation of freedom across different countries and historical periods.
  • 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_69ab4ac14040819098b13f4a27d5c8ff completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd4563b8c8190934616651e93654c completed March 7, 2026, 7:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af83cfdd6081908cdeb21243e73dda completed March 10, 2026, 2:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af878cfbd8819092e81326bbb1dfd3 completed March 10, 2026, 2:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af8809574c819087ebf57cf5cffb7c completed March 10, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:49 p.m.