Triple

T1302891
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alfred W. McCoy E27806 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade is a landmark investigative book that examines the historical intersections between U.S. intelligence operations and the international heroin trade.
E148758 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: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade | Statement: [Alfred W. McCoy, notableWork, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
Context triple: [Alfred W. McCoy, notableWork, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981–1987
    Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981–1987 is a non-fiction book by investigative journalist Bob Woodward that examines the covert operations, internal politics, and controversies of the CIA during the Reagan administration.
  • C. Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA
    "Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA" is the memoir of former CIA Director William Colby, recounting his decades in U.S. intelligence and the moral and political controversies surrounding the agency’s activities during his tenure.
  • D. FBI COINTELPRO operations
    FBI COINTELPRO operations were a series of covert and often illegal counterintelligence programs conducted by the FBI to surveil, infiltrate, and disrupt domestic political organizations and activists in the United States.
  • E. Operation Cyclone
    Operation Cyclone was a covert CIA program during the Cold War that funneled money, weapons, and training to Afghan mujahideen fighters resisting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
  • 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: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
Triple: [Alfred W. McCoy, notableWork, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade]
Generated description
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade is a landmark investigative book that examines the historical intersections between U.S. intelligence operations and the international heroin trade.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
Target entity description: The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade is a landmark investigative book that examines the historical intersections between U.S. intelligence operations and the international heroin trade.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981–1987
    Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981–1987 is a non-fiction book by investigative journalist Bob Woodward that examines the covert operations, internal politics, and controversies of the CIA during the Reagan administration.
  • C. Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA
    "Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA" is the memoir of former CIA Director William Colby, recounting his decades in U.S. intelligence and the moral and political controversies surrounding the agency’s activities during his tenure.
  • D. FBI COINTELPRO operations
    FBI COINTELPRO operations were a series of covert and often illegal counterintelligence programs conducted by the FBI to surveil, infiltrate, and disrupt domestic political organizations and activists in the United States.
  • E. Operation Cyclone
    Operation Cyclone was a covert CIA program during the Cold War that funneled money, weapons, and training to Afghan mujahideen fighters resisting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
  • 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.