Triple

T8805250
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Iraq, Vietnam, and the Limits of American Power E209512 entity
Predicate focusesOn P31 FINISHED
Object limits of American power
The limits of American power refer to the political, military, economic, and moral constraints that prevent the United States from fully achieving its foreign policy objectives, even as a global superpower.
E758371 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: limits of American power | Statement: [Iraq, Vietnam, and the Limits of American Power, focusesOn, limits of American power]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: limits of American power
Context triple: [Iraq, Vietnam, and the Limits of American Power, focusesOn, limits of American power]
  • A. The Paradox of American Power
    The Paradox of American Power is a book by political scientist Joseph S. Nye Jr. that analyzes the limits of U.S. dominance and argues for combining military strength with economic and soft power in a globalized world.
  • B. The American People and Foreign Policy
    "The American People and Foreign Policy" is a seminal political science book by Gabriel A. Almond that analyzes how public opinion shapes and constrains U.S. foreign policy.
  • C. American Power and the New Mandarins
    American Power and the New Mandarins is a 1969 collection of political essays by Noam Chomsky that sharply criticizes U.S. foreign policy and intellectual complicity in the Vietnam War.
  • D. Power and Interdependence
    Power and Interdependence is a foundational work in international relations theory that develops the concept of complex interdependence to explain how international institutions, economic ties, and non-state actors shape global politics beyond traditional power politics.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: limits of American power
Triple: [Iraq, Vietnam, and the Limits of American Power, focusesOn, limits of American power]
Generated description
The limits of American power refer to the political, military, economic, and moral constraints that prevent the United States from fully achieving its foreign policy objectives, even as a global superpower.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: limits of American power
Target entity description: The limits of American power refer to the political, military, economic, and moral constraints that prevent the United States from fully achieving its foreign policy objectives, even as a global superpower.
  • A. The Paradox of American Power
    The Paradox of American Power is a book by political scientist Joseph S. Nye Jr. that analyzes the limits of U.S. dominance and argues for combining military strength with economic and soft power in a globalized world.
  • B. The American People and Foreign Policy
    "The American People and Foreign Policy" is a seminal political science book by Gabriel A. Almond that analyzes how public opinion shapes and constrains U.S. foreign policy.
  • C. American Power and the New Mandarins
    American Power and the New Mandarins is a 1969 collection of political essays by Noam Chomsky that sharply criticizes U.S. foreign policy and intellectual complicity in the Vietnam War.
  • D. Power and Interdependence
    Power and Interdependence is a foundational work in international relations theory that develops the concept of complex interdependence to explain how international institutions, economic ties, and non-state actors shape global politics beyond traditional power politics.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69ca836320e48190b5cf585b90a322c4 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc5fd04eb88190acc4e085d82016c0 completed March 31, 2026, 11:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf6f8e4eac819097470566d325b385 completed April 3, 2026, 7:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf71aaa4b881908440302910c29248 completed April 3, 2026, 7:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf7288d7748190999aa63bf8faf69f completed April 3, 2026, 7:55 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:44 p.m.