White House Years
E4913
White House Years is the first volume of Henry Kissinger’s memoirs, covering his tenure as U.S. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State during the Nixon administration.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| White House Years canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T77620 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: White House Years Context triple: [Years of Upheaval, follows, White House Years]
-
A.
Mr. President
"Mr. President" is the formal spoken address traditionally used for the sitting President of the United States.
-
B.
Backstairs at the White House
Backstairs at the White House is a 1979 television miniseries that dramatizes the lives and experiences of domestic staff serving U.S. presidents across several administrations.
-
C.
Profiles in Courage
Profiles in Courage is a 1956 Pulitzer Prize–winning book by John F. Kennedy that recounts the acts of political bravery of eight U.S. senators who chose principle over popularity.
-
D.
Hundred Days
The Hundred Days refers to the intense early period of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency in 1933 when a flurry of New Deal legislation was rapidly enacted to combat the Great Depression.
-
E.
New Frontier
New Frontier was the name given to President John F. Kennedy’s ambitious domestic and foreign policy agenda of the early 1960s, emphasizing social reform, economic growth, and a vigorous response to Cold War challenges.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: White House Years Target entity description: White House Years is the first volume of Henry Kissinger’s memoirs, covering his tenure as U.S. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State during the Nixon administration.
-
A.
Mr. President
"Mr. President" is the formal spoken address traditionally used for the sitting President of the United States.
-
B.
Backstairs at the White House
Backstairs at the White House is a 1979 television miniseries that dramatizes the lives and experiences of domestic staff serving U.S. presidents across several administrations.
-
C.
Profiles in Courage
Profiles in Courage is a 1956 Pulitzer Prize–winning book by John F. Kennedy that recounts the acts of political bravery of eight U.S. senators who chose principle over popularity.
-
D.
Hundred Days
The Hundred Days refers to the intense early period of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency in 1933 when a flurry of New Deal legislation was rapidly enacted to combat the Great Depression.
-
E.
New Frontier
New Frontier was the name given to President John F. Kennedy’s ambitious domestic and foreign policy agenda of the early 1960s, emphasizing social reform, economic growth, and a vigorous response to Cold War challenges.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
political memoir ⓘ |
| author |
Henry A. Kissinger
ⓘ
surface form:
Henry Kissinger
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coversAdministration |
Nixon administration
ⓘ
surface form:
Presidency of Richard Nixon
|
| coversPeriodEnd | 1974 ⓘ |
| coversPeriodStart | 1969 ⓘ |
| coversRole |
United States National Security Advisor
ⓘ
United States Secretary of State ⓘ |
| depicts | high-level U.S. foreign policy decision-making ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Years of Renewal
ⓘ
Years of Upheaval ⓘ |
| follows | N/A (first volume of memoirs) ⓘ |
| genre |
memoir
ⓘ
non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasPart |
accounts of back-channel negotiations
ⓘ
analysis of détente with the Soviet Union ⓘ discussion of Vietnam War strategy ⓘ narrative of U.S.–China rapprochement ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainProtagonist |
Henry A. Kissinger
ⓘ
surface form:
Henry Kissinger
|
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableEventCovered |
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
ⓘ
Paris Peace Accords negotiations on the Vietnam War ⓘ
surface form:
Vietnam peace negotiations
Yom Kippur War diplomacy ⓘ opening of relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 1500 ⓘ |
| portrays |
Anwar Sadat
ⓘ
Golda Meir ⓘ Leonid Brezhnev ⓘ Mao Zedong ⓘ Richard Nixon ⓘ Zhou Enlai ⓘ various U.S. and foreign officials ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1979 ⓘ |
| publisher | Little, Brown and Company ⓘ |
| setting | White House ⓘ |
| subject |
Cold War diplomacy
ⓘ
Middle East diplomacy ⓘ Nixon administration ⓘ U.S.–China relations ⓘ U.S.–Soviet relations ⓘ United States foreign policy ⓘ Vietnam War ⓘ |
| timeframeDescribed | early 1970s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: White House Years Description of subject: White House Years is the first volume of Henry Kissinger’s memoirs, covering his tenure as U.S. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State during the Nixon administration.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Years of Upheaval
subject surface form:
Years of Upheaval
subject surface form:
Henry Kissinger