Triple

T8805307
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Is Iraq Another Vietnam? E209513 entity
Predicate hasAuthorBackground P938 FINISHED
Object Robert K. Brigham is a historian of the Vietnam War
Robert K. Brigham is an American historian and scholar specializing in the Vietnam War and U.S. foreign policy.
 E758372 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: Robert K. Brigham is a historian of the Vietnam War | Statement: [Is Iraq Another Vietnam?, hasAuthorBackground, Robert K. Brigham is a historian of the Vietnam War]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert K. Brigham is a historian of the Vietnam War
Context triple: [Is Iraq Another Vietnam?, hasAuthorBackground, Robert K. Brigham is a historian of the Vietnam War]
  • A. John S. D. Eisenhower was a military historian
    John S. D. Eisenhower was an American military historian, U.S. Army officer, and author, known for his works on military history and as the son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  • B. Stanley G. Payne
    Stanley G. Payne is an American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on fascism, Spanish history, and European authoritarian regimes in the 20th century.
  • C. Stephen E. Ambrose
    Stephen E. Ambrose was an American historian and biographer best known for his popular works on World War II and the U.S. presidency.
  • D. Antony Beevor
    Antony Beevor is a British military historian and author renowned for his bestselling, critically acclaimed works on World War II, including "Stalingrad" and "Berlin: The Downfall 1945."
  • E. Brian Harrison (historian)
    Brian Harrison is a British historian known for his work on modern British social and political history and for serving as editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • 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: Robert K. Brigham is a historian of the Vietnam War
Triple: [Is Iraq Another Vietnam?, hasAuthorBackground, Robert K. Brigham is a historian of the Vietnam War]
Generated description
Robert K. Brigham is an American historian and scholar specializing in the Vietnam War and U.S. foreign policy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert K. Brigham is a historian of the Vietnam War
Target entity description: Robert K. Brigham is an American historian and scholar specializing in the Vietnam War and U.S. foreign policy.
  • A. John S. D. Eisenhower was a military historian
    John S. D. Eisenhower was an American military historian, U.S. Army officer, and author, known for his works on military history and as the son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  • B. Stanley G. Payne
    Stanley G. Payne is an American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on fascism, Spanish history, and European authoritarian regimes in the 20th century.
  • C. Stephen E. Ambrose
    Stephen E. Ambrose was an American historian and biographer best known for his popular works on World War II and the U.S. presidency.
  • D. Antony Beevor
    Antony Beevor is a British military historian and author renowned for his bestselling, critically acclaimed works on World War II, including "Stalingrad" and "Berlin: The Downfall 1945."
  • E. Brian Harrison (historian)
    Brian Harrison is a British historian known for his work on modern British social and political history and for serving as editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • 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.