Triple
T1413095
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ken Thompson |
E31846
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Reflections on Trusting Trust |
E162094
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Reflections on Trusting Trust | Statement: [Ken Thompson, notableWork, Reflections on Trusting Trust]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reflections on Trusting Trust Context triple: [Ken Thompson, notableWork, Reflections on Trusting Trust]
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A.
the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" lecture and paper
chosen
"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.
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B.
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.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
The Mythical Man-Month
The Mythical Man-Month is a classic software engineering book by Fred Brooks that explores the challenges of large-scale software projects and famously argues that adding manpower to a late project makes it later.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ad015a52a88190933e7337067e5364 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 4:55 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.