Triple

T5753736
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joseph E. Persico E126914 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Piercing the Reich
Piercing the Reich is a historical nonfiction book that examines American espionage operations conducted inside Nazi Germany during World War II.
E545673 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: Piercing the Reich | Statement: [Joseph E. Persico, notableWork, Piercing the Reich]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Piercing the Reich
Context triple: [Joseph E. Persico, notableWork, Piercing the Reich]
  • A. Luftbrücke
    Luftbrücke is the German term for the Berlin Airlift, the Allied operation that supplied West Berlin by air during the Soviet blockade of 1948–1949.
  • B. Defense of the Reich
    Defense of the Reich was the German Luftwaffe’s World War II air defense campaign aimed at protecting Nazi Germany from Allied strategic bombing.
  • C. Panzer Group von Kleist
    Panzer Group von Kleist was a German armored formation in World War II that played a key role in early Blitzkrieg campaigns, particularly during the invasions of France and the Soviet Union.
  • D. Hitler’s buzzsaw
    Hitler’s buzzsaw was the fearsome German MG 42 general-purpose machine gun of World War II, notorious for its extremely high rate of fire and devastating battlefield effectiveness.
  • E. Unternehmen Barbarossa
    Unternehmen Barbarossa was Nazi Germany’s massive 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, intended to quickly defeat the USSR but ultimately resulting in a prolonged and disastrous campaign for the Germans.
  • 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: Piercing the Reich
Triple: [Joseph E. Persico, notableWork, Piercing the Reich]
Generated description
Piercing the Reich is a historical nonfiction book that examines American espionage operations conducted inside Nazi Germany during World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Piercing the Reich
Target entity description: Piercing the Reich is a historical nonfiction book that examines American espionage operations conducted inside Nazi Germany during World War II.
  • A. Luftbrücke
    Luftbrücke is the German term for the Berlin Airlift, the Allied operation that supplied West Berlin by air during the Soviet blockade of 1948–1949.
  • B. Defense of the Reich
    Defense of the Reich was the German Luftwaffe’s World War II air defense campaign aimed at protecting Nazi Germany from Allied strategic bombing.
  • C. Panzer Group von Kleist
    Panzer Group von Kleist was a German armored formation in World War II that played a key role in early Blitzkrieg campaigns, particularly during the invasions of France and the Soviet Union.
  • D. Hitler’s buzzsaw
    Hitler’s buzzsaw was the fearsome German MG 42 general-purpose machine gun of World War II, notorious for its extremely high rate of fire and devastating battlefield effectiveness.
  • E. Unternehmen Barbarossa
    Unternehmen Barbarossa was Nazi Germany’s massive 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, intended to quickly defeat the USSR but ultimately resulting in a prolonged and disastrous campaign for the Germans.
  • 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_69c00832aedc81909899801b141fa3b4 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c029032ba08190ae4062d74ab271ee completed March 22, 2026, 5:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c07e3e71988190a938a6d175023028 completed March 22, 2026, 11:41 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c08cf206188190a4e5bb2649d97be9 completed March 23, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c08dc6a358819093c10c4ee0b598e7 completed March 23, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:48 p.m.