Triple

T10990937
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jack F. Matlock Jr. E259751 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador’s Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union
"Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador’s Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union" is a memoir and historical analysis by former U.S. ambassador Jack F. Matlock Jr. that offers an insider’s perspective on the political and diplomatic dynamics that led to the Soviet Union’s dissolution.
E898455 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: Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador’s Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union | Statement: [Jack F. Matlock Jr., notableWork, Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador’s Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador’s Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Context triple: [Jack F. Matlock Jr., notableWork, Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador’s Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Suicide of a Superpower
    "Suicide of a Superpower" is a political commentary book by conservative commentator Pat Buchanan that argues the United States is in cultural and geopolitical decline.
  • C. 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.
  • D. The Decline of the American Empire
    The Decline of the American Empire is a 1986 Canadian French-language comedy-drama film directed by Denys Arcand that explores the personal and sexual lives of a group of intellectuals in Montreal.
  • 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: Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador’s Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Triple: [Jack F. Matlock Jr., notableWork, Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador’s Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union]
Generated description
"Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador’s Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union" is a memoir and historical analysis by former U.S. ambassador Jack F. Matlock Jr. that offers an insider’s perspective on the political and diplomatic dynamics that led to the Soviet Union’s dissolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador’s Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Target entity description: "Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador’s Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union" is a memoir and historical analysis by former U.S. ambassador Jack F. Matlock Jr. that offers an insider’s perspective on the political and diplomatic dynamics that led to the Soviet Union’s dissolution.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Suicide of a Superpower
    "Suicide of a Superpower" is a political commentary book by conservative commentator Pat Buchanan that argues the United States is in cultural and geopolitical decline.
  • C. 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.
  • D. The Decline of the American Empire
    The Decline of the American Empire is a 1986 Canadian French-language comedy-drama film directed by Denys Arcand that explores the personal and sexual lives of a group of intellectuals in Montreal.
  • 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_69d6aa8a6a548190a750f944ccdc8064 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d787b8d7088190b7d6b63c3bac4ad1 completed April 9, 2026, 11:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e34504ebec8190a78e4795765b0c24 completed April 18, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e3556fd3548190a33f04604be947cf completed April 18, 2026, 9:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3593b0f8481909ed7a90f8bb9839d completed April 18, 2026, 10:13 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:24 p.m.