Triple

T1302894
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alfred W. McCoy E27806 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power
*In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power* is a historical and geopolitical study that examines how the United States built its global dominance and why that power is now in relative decline.
E148761 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: In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power | Statement: [Alfred W. McCoy, notableWork, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power
Context triple: [Alfred W. McCoy, notableWork, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power]
  • A. The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World
    The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World is a non-fiction book by Canadian philosopher John Ralston Saul that critiques economic globalization and explores emerging alternatives for organizing political and social life.
  • B. American Power and the New Mandarins
    American Power and the New Mandarins is a 1969 collection of political essays by Noam Chomsky that sharply criticizes U.S. foreign policy and intellectual complicity in the Vietnam War.
  • C. After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed
    "After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed" is a nonfiction book by historian and former Army officer Andrew Bacevich that critiques U.S. foreign policy and argues for a fundamental rethinking of America’s global role in the wake of recent crises.
  • D. America at Century’s End
    "America at Century’s End" is a work by James R. Schlesinger that analyzes the United States’ strategic, political, and economic challenges as it approached the close of the twentieth century.
  • E. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is a 1996 political science book by Samuel P. Huntington that argues future global conflicts will be driven primarily by cultural and civilizational differences rather than ideological or economic ones.
  • 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: In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power
Triple: [Alfred W. McCoy, notableWork, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power]
Generated description
*In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power* is a historical and geopolitical study that examines how the United States built its global dominance and why that power is now in relative decline.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power
Target entity description: *In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power* is a historical and geopolitical study that examines how the United States built its global dominance and why that power is now in relative decline.
  • A. The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World
    The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World is a non-fiction book by Canadian philosopher John Ralston Saul that critiques economic globalization and explores emerging alternatives for organizing political and social life.
  • B. American Power and the New Mandarins
    American Power and the New Mandarins is a 1969 collection of political essays by Noam Chomsky that sharply criticizes U.S. foreign policy and intellectual complicity in the Vietnam War.
  • C. After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed
    "After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed" is a nonfiction book by historian and former Army officer Andrew Bacevich that critiques U.S. foreign policy and argues for a fundamental rethinking of America’s global role in the wake of recent crises.
  • D. America at Century’s End
    "America at Century’s End" is a work by James R. Schlesinger that analyzes the United States’ strategic, political, and economic challenges as it approached the close of the twentieth century.
  • E. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is a 1996 political science book by Samuel P. Huntington that argues future global conflicts will be driven primarily by cultural and civilizational differences rather than ideological or economic ones.
  • 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.