Triple

T9941530
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Peter Kornbluh E194093 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana
"Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana" is a historical study that reveals the secret diplomatic contacts and negotiations between the United States and Cuba from the Cold War through the normalization of relations.
E830674 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: Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana | Statement: [Peter Kornbluh, notableWork, Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana
Context triple: [Peter Kornbluh, notableWork, Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana]
  • A. Listen, Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba
    "Listen, Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba" is a 1960 political analysis and defense of the Cuban Revolution, presenting the perspectives of Cuban revolutionaries to a U.S. audience.
  • B. Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse
    "Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse" is a historical and political analysis book examining Fidel Castro’s role in the Cuban Missile Crisis and its long-term implications for Cuba and the Soviet Union’s downfall.
  • C. Three Weeks in Havana
    "Three Weeks in Havana" is a song featured on the album "Heigh Ho."
  • D. From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War
    From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War is a memoir and historical account by former U.S. intelligence and defense official Robert M. Gates, offering an inside look at American foreign policy and covert operations across multiple administrations during the Cold War.
  • 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: Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana
Triple: [Peter Kornbluh, notableWork, Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana]
Generated description
"Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana" is a historical study that reveals the secret diplomatic contacts and negotiations between the United States and Cuba from the Cold War through the normalization of relations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana
Target entity description: "Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana" is a historical study that reveals the secret diplomatic contacts and negotiations between the United States and Cuba from the Cold War through the normalization of relations.
  • A. Listen, Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba
    "Listen, Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba" is a 1960 political analysis and defense of the Cuban Revolution, presenting the perspectives of Cuban revolutionaries to a U.S. audience.
  • B. Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse
    "Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse" is a historical and political analysis book examining Fidel Castro’s role in the Cuban Missile Crisis and its long-term implications for Cuba and the Soviet Union’s downfall.
  • C. Three Weeks in Havana
    "Three Weeks in Havana" is a song featured on the album "Heigh Ho."
  • D. From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War
    From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War is a memoir and historical account by former U.S. intelligence and defense official Robert M. Gates, offering an inside look at American foreign policy and covert operations across multiple administrations during the Cold War.
  • 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_69ca82e409348190a393777356b80a2a completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb610905c81909d669265c92021a5 completed April 2, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d229080d0081908b66b9c4166db252 completed April 5, 2026, 9:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d22a07d4088190b19b4529c0a56f8d completed April 5, 2026, 9:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d22b37ce8481909a52a144605d44a4 completed April 5, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:44 p.m.