Triple

T9048794
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nixon’s address to the nation on the Vietnam War E216827 entity
Predicate associatedPhrase P2830 FINISHED
Object silent majority
The "silent majority" is a political term popularized by U.S. President Richard Nixon to describe the large group of ostensibly moderate, non-protesting citizens whose support he claimed for his policies.
E774489 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: silent majority | Statement: [Nixon’s address to the nation on the Vietnam War, associatedPhrase, silent majority]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: silent majority
Context triple: [Nixon’s address to the nation on the Vietnam War, associatedPhrase, silent majority]
  • A. A Majority of One
    A Majority of One is a 1959 Broadway play (later adapted into a film) that explores cultural clashes and mutual understanding between a Jewish widow and a Japanese businessman.
  • B. New Majority
    New Majority was a center-left political coalition in Chile that brought together several progressive parties, including the Socialist Party and the Christian Democrats, to support common presidential and legislative candidates in the 2010s.
  • C. Silent
    Silent film is a type of motion picture produced without synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue, relying instead on visuals, intertitles, and music to convey its story.
  • D. In Search of a Majority
    "In Search of a Majority" is an essay by James Baldwin that examines race, identity, and the quest for political and social power in mid-20th-century America.
  • E. Majority text
    The Majority text is a form of the Greek New Testament text that reflects the readings found in the majority of surviving Byzantine manuscripts and underlies the traditional ecclesiastical text used in Eastern Orthodoxy.
  • 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: silent majority
Triple: [Nixon’s address to the nation on the Vietnam War, associatedPhrase, silent majority]
Generated description
The "silent majority" is a political term popularized by U.S. President Richard Nixon to describe the large group of ostensibly moderate, non-protesting citizens whose support he claimed for his policies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: silent majority
Target entity description: The "silent majority" is a political term popularized by U.S. President Richard Nixon to describe the large group of ostensibly moderate, non-protesting citizens whose support he claimed for his policies.
  • A. A Majority of One
    A Majority of One is a 1959 Broadway play (later adapted into a film) that explores cultural clashes and mutual understanding between a Jewish widow and a Japanese businessman.
  • B. New Majority
    New Majority was a center-left political coalition in Chile that brought together several progressive parties, including the Socialist Party and the Christian Democrats, to support common presidential and legislative candidates in the 2010s.
  • C. Silent
    Silent film is a type of motion picture produced without synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue, relying instead on visuals, intertitles, and music to convey its story.
  • D. In Search of a Majority
    "In Search of a Majority" is an essay by James Baldwin that examines race, identity, and the quest for political and social power in mid-20th-century America.
  • E. Majority text
    The Majority text is a form of the Greek New Testament text that reflects the readings found in the majority of surviving Byzantine manuscripts and underlies the traditional ecclesiastical text used in Eastern Orthodoxy.
  • 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_69ca83d362e88190ae44b4e4dc194209 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc6b51aa708190a37feecfd8deed2f completed April 1, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfebc0fd648190b0dd6cf62605b98f completed April 3, 2026, 4:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfed4fb6cc8190bb97345dd392b25b completed April 3, 2026, 4:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfedf299908190852cc627fd7134b9 completed April 3, 2026, 4:42 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:09 p.m.