Triple

T6156291
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Andrew Cockburn E137328 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine
The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine is a non-fiction book by Andrew Cockburn that critically examines and debunks Western misconceptions about the strength and capabilities of the Soviet armed forces during the Cold War.
E573423 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: The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine | Statement: [Andrew Cockburn, notableWork, The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine
Context triple: [Andrew Cockburn, notableWork, The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine]
  • A. A Choice of Weapons
    "A Choice of Weapons" is Gordon Parks’s influential autobiographical work in which he reflects on his life, art, and use of the camera as a tool for social change.
  • B. The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
    The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner is Daniel Ellsberg’s memoir and exposé detailing the dangers, secrecy, and systemic flaws of U.S. nuclear war planning during the Cold War.
  • C. Red Storm
    Red Storm is the athletic mascot and team identity representing Saranac Lake High School’s sports programs.
  • D. On War
    On War is a seminal 19th-century treatise on military strategy and theory that analyzes the nature, philosophy, and political dimensions of warfare.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine
Triple: [Andrew Cockburn, notableWork, The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine]
Generated description
The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine is a non-fiction book by Andrew Cockburn that critically examines and debunks Western misconceptions about the strength and capabilities of the Soviet armed forces during the Cold War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine
Target entity description: The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine is a non-fiction book by Andrew Cockburn that critically examines and debunks Western misconceptions about the strength and capabilities of the Soviet armed forces during the Cold War.
  • A. A Choice of Weapons
    "A Choice of Weapons" is Gordon Parks’s influential autobiographical work in which he reflects on his life, art, and use of the camera as a tool for social change.
  • B. The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
    The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner is Daniel Ellsberg’s memoir and exposé detailing the dangers, secrecy, and systemic flaws of U.S. nuclear war planning during the Cold War.
  • C. Red Storm
    Red Storm is the athletic mascot and team identity representing Saranac Lake High School’s sports programs.
  • D. On War
    On War is a seminal 19th-century treatise on military strategy and theory that analyzes the nature, philosophy, and political dimensions of warfare.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69c008a45d008190832a9e19f5d63406 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c05d0376408190a2233375f478377e completed March 22, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c141867fac819093a3093aa8251eac completed March 23, 2026, 1:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c14794c3488190874b0a4d2c00514d completed March 23, 2026, 2 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c1480b10f08190891bfc8488bbaf16 completed March 23, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:17 p.m.