Triple

T2791120
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert M. Gates E61929 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object 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.
E298599 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: From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War | Statement: [Robert M. Gates, notableWork, From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War
Context triple: [Robert M. Gates, notableWork, From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War]
  • A. The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
    "The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War" is a historical nonfiction book by Stephen Kinzer that examines how the Dulles brothers shaped U.S. foreign policy and covert operations during the Cold War.
  • B. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
    Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis is Robert F. Kennedy’s firsthand account of the tense 1962 standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, offering an inside view of the Kennedy administration’s decision-making during the nuclear crisis.
  • C. Kissinger’s Shadow
    Kissinger’s Shadow is a historical and political analysis book by Greg Grandin that examines Henry Kissinger’s enduring influence on U.S. foreign policy and global power.
  • D. On the Brink: Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis
    "On the Brink: Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis" is a historical study that revisits the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis through newly available evidence and perspectives from both American and Soviet participants.
  • E. The Trial of Henry Kissinger
    The Trial of Henry Kissinger is a polemical book by Christopher Hitchens that argues Henry Kissinger should be prosecuted for alleged war crimes and human rights abuses committed during his tenure in U.S. foreign policy.
  • 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: From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War
Triple: [Robert M. Gates, notableWork, From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
    "The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War" is a historical nonfiction book by Stephen Kinzer that examines how the Dulles brothers shaped U.S. foreign policy and covert operations during the Cold War.
  • B. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
    Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis is Robert F. Kennedy’s firsthand account of the tense 1962 standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, offering an inside view of the Kennedy administration’s decision-making during the nuclear crisis.
  • C. Kissinger’s Shadow
    Kissinger’s Shadow is a historical and political analysis book by Greg Grandin that examines Henry Kissinger’s enduring influence on U.S. foreign policy and global power.
  • D. On the Brink: Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis
    "On the Brink: Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis" is a historical study that revisits the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis through newly available evidence and perspectives from both American and Soviet participants.
  • E. The Trial of Henry Kissinger
    The Trial of Henry Kissinger is a polemical book by Christopher Hitchens that argues Henry Kissinger should be prosecuted for alleged war crimes and human rights abuses committed during his tenure in U.S. foreign policy.
  • 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_69ab4b7f51d881908768300ebd2fbdae completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abddcfe19c81908f94dd449f18a2c2 completed March 7, 2026, 8:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afc65c1f848190b6efeefb64a3e131 completed March 10, 2026, 7:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afc6e6d4bc81908108fe24677448c3 completed March 10, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afc7907be88190b70458ed735261e8 completed March 10, 2026, 7:26 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:58 p.m.