Triple

T5028189
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chaffing and winnowing E113228 entity
Predicate publishedIn P309 FINISHED
Object paper "Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption"
"Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption" is a paper by Ronald L. Rivest that proposes a method for achieving data confidentiality without using traditional encryption, instead relying on message authentication codes and the separation of valid and invalid data.
E487735 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: paper "Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption" | Statement: [Chaffing and winnowing, publishedIn, paper "Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: paper "Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption"
Context triple: [Chaffing and winnowing, publishedIn, paper "Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption"]
  • A. New Directions in Cryptography
    New Directions in Cryptography is a landmark 1976 paper that introduced the concepts of public-key cryptography and digital signatures, fundamentally reshaping modern cryptography and secure communications.
  • B. Secrecy, Authentication, and Public Key Systems
    "Secrecy, Authentication, and Public Key Systems" is Ralph Merkle's influential doctoral thesis that helped lay the foundations of modern public-key cryptography and secure communication protocols.
  • C. Probabilistic Encryption
    Probabilistic Encryption is a cryptographic technique that uses randomness in the encryption process so that the same message encrypts to different ciphertexts, enhancing security against attackers.
  • D. Merkle puzzles
    Merkle puzzles are an early cryptographic protocol that introduced the concept of public-key exchange by allowing two parties to establish a shared secret over an insecure channel using computationally asymmetric “puzzle” problems.
  • E. Shamir secret sharing scheme
    The Shamir secret sharing scheme is a cryptographic method that divides a secret into multiple parts so that only a specified threshold of parts can reconstruct the original secret, while fewer parts reveal nothing.
  • 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: paper "Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption"
Triple: [Chaffing and winnowing, publishedIn, paper "Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption"]
Generated description
"Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption" is a paper by Ronald L. Rivest that proposes a method for achieving data confidentiality without using traditional encryption, instead relying on message authentication codes and the separation of valid and invalid data.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: paper "Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption"
Target entity description: "Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption" is a paper by Ronald L. Rivest that proposes a method for achieving data confidentiality without using traditional encryption, instead relying on message authentication codes and the separation of valid and invalid data.
  • A. New Directions in Cryptography
    New Directions in Cryptography is a landmark 1976 paper that introduced the concepts of public-key cryptography and digital signatures, fundamentally reshaping modern cryptography and secure communications.
  • B. Secrecy, Authentication, and Public Key Systems
    "Secrecy, Authentication, and Public Key Systems" is Ralph Merkle's influential doctoral thesis that helped lay the foundations of modern public-key cryptography and secure communication protocols.
  • C. Probabilistic Encryption
    Probabilistic Encryption is a cryptographic technique that uses randomness in the encryption process so that the same message encrypts to different ciphertexts, enhancing security against attackers.
  • D. Merkle puzzles
    Merkle puzzles are an early cryptographic protocol that introduced the concept of public-key exchange by allowing two parties to establish a shared secret over an insecure channel using computationally asymmetric “puzzle” problems.
  • E. Shamir secret sharing scheme
    The Shamir secret sharing scheme is a cryptographic method that divides a secret into multiple parts so that only a specified threshold of parts can reconstruct the original secret, while fewer parts reveal nothing.
  • 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_69bd443775e48190a646ffbfc4334723 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd738d852c8190a122354f1e1f5343 completed March 20, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be9c64db5c81909224c82ae9d9e0ab completed March 21, 2026, 1:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be9ce7959081908b9ddb4c677c477c completed March 21, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be9d7e00f88190b2d12e872fadc181 completed March 21, 2026, 1:30 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:36 p.m.