Triple

T1482845
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject White House Plumbers E30996 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object Nixon administration covert operations network
The Nixon administration covert operations network was a clandestine group of White House-linked operatives who conducted illegal intelligence-gathering, sabotage, and political espionage activities during Richard Nixon’s presidency.
E169149 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: Nixon administration covert operations network | Statement: [White House Plumbers, partOf, Nixon administration covert operations network]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nixon administration covert operations network
Context triple: [White House Plumbers, partOf, Nixon administration covert operations network]
  • A. The Nixon Defense
    The Nixon Defense is a historical and legal analysis book by former White House Counsel John Dean that reconstructs Richard Nixon’s Watergate strategy using newly released tapes and documents.
  • B. Pentagon Papers
    The Pentagon Papers are a classified U.S. Department of Defense study, leaked in 1971, that revealed previously undisclosed information about American political and military involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • C. 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.
  • D. The Trial of Henry Kissinger
    The Trial of Henry Kissinger is a polemical book by Christopher Hitchens that argues Henry Kissinger should be prosecuted for alleged war crimes and human rights abuses committed during his tenure in U.S. foreign policy.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Nixon administration covert operations network
Triple: [White House Plumbers, partOf, Nixon administration covert operations network]
Generated description
The Nixon administration covert operations network was a clandestine group of White House-linked operatives who conducted illegal intelligence-gathering, sabotage, and political espionage activities during Richard Nixon’s presidency.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nixon administration covert operations network
Target entity description: The Nixon administration covert operations network was a clandestine group of White House-linked operatives who conducted illegal intelligence-gathering, sabotage, and political espionage activities during Richard Nixon’s presidency.
  • A. The Nixon Defense
    The Nixon Defense is a historical and legal analysis book by former White House Counsel John Dean that reconstructs Richard Nixon’s Watergate strategy using newly released tapes and documents.
  • B. Pentagon Papers
    The Pentagon Papers are a classified U.S. Department of Defense study, leaked in 1971, that revealed previously undisclosed information about American political and military involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • C. 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.
  • D. The Trial of Henry Kissinger
    The Trial of Henry Kissinger is a polemical book by Christopher Hitchens that argues Henry Kissinger should be prosecuted for alleged war crimes and human rights abuses committed during his tenure in U.S. foreign policy.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69a498fe55a88190ab7f9e40ace88e49 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c6782f088190930d25a56161e2b3 completed March 1, 2026, 11:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad15b3a8548190b484a15757aee7b1 completed March 8, 2026, 6:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad16bc23808190ba26aa98764f3186 completed March 8, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad172912488190b77c77e4e61e0183 completed March 8, 2026, 6:28 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:11 p.m.