Triple

T1302890
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alfred W. McCoy E27806 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia is a landmark investigative book that exposes the connections between the global heroin trade, Southeast Asian politics, and U.S. intelligence operations during the Cold War.
E148757 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: The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia | Statement: [Alfred W. McCoy, notableWork, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
Context triple: [Alfred W. McCoy, notableWork, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia]
  • A. British opium trade in China
    The British opium trade in China was a 19th-century system of illicit narcotics commerce, largely driven by British merchants and the East India Company, that flooded China with opium, destabilized its society and economy, and ultimately provoked the Opium Wars.
  • B. War on Drugs
    The War on Drugs is a long-running U.S. government campaign that uses law enforcement, legislation, and international efforts to reduce the production, distribution, and consumption of illegal drugs.
  • C. social and opium traffic section
    The social and opium traffic section was a specialized unit of the League of Nations’ Permanent Secretariat responsible for addressing international social issues and coordinating efforts to control the global trade in opium and other dangerous drugs.
  • D. Drug Policy Program
    The Drug Policy Program is a research and policy initiative at Rice University's Baker Institute that analyzes and advocates for evidence-based approaches to drug laws and regulation.
  • E. Norwegian substance abuse and addiction policy
    Norwegian substance abuse and addiction policy is the national framework guiding prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and rehabilitation efforts for people with drug and alcohol problems in Norway.
  • 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: The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
Triple: [Alfred W. McCoy, notableWork, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia]
Generated description
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia is a landmark investigative book that exposes the connections between the global heroin trade, Southeast Asian politics, and U.S. intelligence operations during the Cold War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
Target entity description: The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia is a landmark investigative book that exposes the connections between the global heroin trade, Southeast Asian politics, and U.S. intelligence operations during the Cold War.
  • A. British opium trade in China
    The British opium trade in China was a 19th-century system of illicit narcotics commerce, largely driven by British merchants and the East India Company, that flooded China with opium, destabilized its society and economy, and ultimately provoked the Opium Wars.
  • B. War on Drugs
    The War on Drugs is a long-running U.S. government campaign that uses law enforcement, legislation, and international efforts to reduce the production, distribution, and consumption of illegal drugs.
  • C. social and opium traffic section
    The social and opium traffic section was a specialized unit of the League of Nations’ Permanent Secretariat responsible for addressing international social issues and coordinating efforts to control the global trade in opium and other dangerous drugs.
  • D. Drug Policy Program
    The Drug Policy Program is a research and policy initiative at Rice University's Baker Institute that analyzes and advocates for evidence-based approaches to drug laws and regulation.
  • E. Norwegian substance abuse and addiction policy
    Norwegian substance abuse and addiction policy is the national framework guiding prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and rehabilitation efforts for people with drug and alcohol problems in Norway.
  • 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_69a496d7d83481908f83085854e51328 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c116d7d881908ee631258f80980e completed March 1, 2026, 10:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acb3046a888190956f6bedb6ec589f completed March 7, 2026, 11:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acb370c7cc81908a78bb5438416db6 completed March 7, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acb409b4d0819081266cf3e6c09164 completed March 7, 2026, 11:26 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.