Triple

T2599390
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joseph S. Nye Jr. E58305 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
"Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics" is a seminal book by Joseph S. Nye Jr. that popularizes and elaborates the concept of soft power as a crucial tool of international influence and foreign policy.
E282652 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: Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics | Statement: [Joseph S. Nye Jr., notableWork, Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
Context triple: [Joseph S. Nye Jr., notableWork, Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics]
  • A. Elite Communication and Public Opinion in the Making of Foreign Policy
    "Elite Communication and Public Opinion in the Making of Foreign Policy" is a scholarly work analyzing how interactions among political elites and mass public attitudes shape the formulation of foreign policy.
  • B. Hegemony or Survival
    Hegemony or Survival is a political analysis book by Noam Chomsky that critiques U.S. foreign policy and argues that American pursuit of global dominance threatens both democracy and human survival.
  • C. The Ends of Power
    The Ends of Power is a memoir by former White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman that offers an insider’s account of the Nixon administration and the Watergate scandal.
  • D. In Defense of the National Interest
    In Defense of the National Interest is a seminal work of realist international relations theory in which Hans Morgenthau critiques U.S. foreign policy and argues for a sober, power-based understanding of national interest.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
Triple: [Joseph S. Nye Jr., notableWork, Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics]
Generated description
"Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics" is a seminal book by Joseph S. Nye Jr. that popularizes and elaborates the concept of soft power as a crucial tool of international influence and foreign policy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
Target entity description: "Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics" is a seminal book by Joseph S. Nye Jr. that popularizes and elaborates the concept of soft power as a crucial tool of international influence and foreign policy.
  • A. Elite Communication and Public Opinion in the Making of Foreign Policy
    "Elite Communication and Public Opinion in the Making of Foreign Policy" is a scholarly work analyzing how interactions among political elites and mass public attitudes shape the formulation of foreign policy.
  • B. Hegemony or Survival
    Hegemony or Survival is a political analysis book by Noam Chomsky that critiques U.S. foreign policy and argues that American pursuit of global dominance threatens both democracy and human survival.
  • C. The Ends of Power
    The Ends of Power is a memoir by former White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman that offers an insider’s account of the Nixon administration and the Watergate scandal.
  • D. In Defense of the National Interest
    In Defense of the National Interest is a seminal work of realist international relations theory in which Hans Morgenthau critiques U.S. foreign policy and argues for a sober, power-based understanding of national interest.
  • E. 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.
  • 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.