Triple

T1413057
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ken Thompson E31846 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" lecture and paper
"Reflections on Trusting Trust" is Ken Thompson’s influential 1984 Turing Award lecture and paper that exposed how a compiler could be maliciously modified to invisibly insert security vulnerabilities, fundamentally shaping thinking about software trust and supply-chain security.
E162094 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 "Reflections on Trusting Trust" lecture and paper | Statement: [Ken Thompson, knownFor, the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" lecture and paper]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" lecture and paper
Context triple: [Ken Thompson, knownFor, the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" lecture and paper]
  • A. The Cathedral and the Bazaar
    The Cathedral and the Bazaar is a highly influential essay and book on open-source software development that contrasts centralized, top-down programming models with decentralized, collaborative approaches.
  • B. The Essence of Security
    "The Essence of Security" is a book by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara that outlines his views on national security, nuclear strategy, and defense policy during the Cold War.
  • C. Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
    Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About is a reflective book by Donald E. Knuth in which he discusses the philosophical, spiritual, and personal dimensions underlying his life and work in computer science.
  • D. New Directions in Cryptography
    New Directions in Cryptography is a landmark 1976 paper that introduced the concepts of public-key cryptography and digital signatures, fundamentally reshaping modern cryptography and secure communications.
  • E. The New Hacker's Dictionary
    The New Hacker's Dictionary is a comprehensive lexicon and cultural guide to hacker slang, folklore, and traditions, compiled and edited by Eric S. Raymond.
  • 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 "Reflections on Trusting Trust" lecture and paper
Triple: [Ken Thompson, knownFor, the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" lecture and paper]
Generated description
"Reflections on Trusting Trust" is Ken Thompson’s influential 1984 Turing Award lecture and paper that exposed how a compiler could be maliciously modified to invisibly insert security vulnerabilities, fundamentally shaping thinking about software trust and supply-chain security.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" lecture and paper
Target entity description: "Reflections on Trusting Trust" is Ken Thompson’s influential 1984 Turing Award lecture and paper that exposed how a compiler could be maliciously modified to invisibly insert security vulnerabilities, fundamentally shaping thinking about software trust and supply-chain security.
  • A. The Cathedral and the Bazaar
    The Cathedral and the Bazaar is a highly influential essay and book on open-source software development that contrasts centralized, top-down programming models with decentralized, collaborative approaches.
  • B. The Essence of Security
    "The Essence of Security" is a book by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara that outlines his views on national security, nuclear strategy, and defense policy during the Cold War.
  • C. Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
    Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About is a reflective book by Donald E. Knuth in which he discusses the philosophical, spiritual, and personal dimensions underlying his life and work in computer science.
  • D. New Directions in Cryptography
    New Directions in Cryptography is a landmark 1976 paper that introduced the concepts of public-key cryptography and digital signatures, fundamentally reshaping modern cryptography and secure communications.
  • E. The New Hacker's Dictionary
    The New Hacker's Dictionary is a comprehensive lexicon and cultural guide to hacker slang, folklore, and traditions, compiled and edited by Eric S. Raymond.
  • 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_69a49919a994819086528951bc224775 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c3e476f08190aed1576805c62462 completed March 1, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ace57ec2d88190b06d0f20e3b52462 completed March 8, 2026, 2:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ace5fc91d081909b33009d06a38616 completed March 8, 2026, 2:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ace6c10f54819089a4afcf49ef894f completed March 8, 2026, 3:02 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.