Triple

T1487308
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Laotian Civil War E29494 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Secret War in Laos
Secret War in Laos refers to the covert U.S.-backed military campaign and proxy conflict in Laos during the Vietnam War era, involving the CIA, Hmong forces, and the Royal Lao Government against communist Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese forces.
E170647 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: Secret War in Laos | Statement: [Laotian Civil War, alsoKnownAs, Secret War in Laos]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Secret War in Laos
Context triple: [Laotian Civil War, alsoKnownAs, Secret War in Laos]
  • A. Brigade 2506
    Brigade 2506 was a CIA-sponsored paramilitary group of Cuban exiles that carried out the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion against Fidel Castro’s government.
  • B. Strategic Hamlet Program
    The Strategic Hamlet Program was a controversial early-1960s South Vietnamese counterinsurgency initiative that sought to isolate rural populations from Viet Cong influence by relocating villagers into fortified settlements.
  • C. Merrill's Marauders
    Merrill's Marauders were a famed American long-range jungle warfare unit of World War II that conducted deep-penetration missions behind Japanese lines in the China-Burma-India theater.
  • D. Crypt of the Unknown from the Vietnam War
    The Crypt of the Unknown from the Vietnam War is a burial vault at Arlington National Cemetery that once honored an unidentified American service member from the Vietnam War as part of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
  • E. Armed Freedom
    Armed Freedom is the bronze allegorical statue of a helmeted female figure representing liberty that crowns the dome of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
  • 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: Secret War in Laos
Triple: [Laotian Civil War, alsoKnownAs, Secret War in Laos]
Generated description
Secret War in Laos refers to the covert U.S.-backed military campaign and proxy conflict in Laos during the Vietnam War era, involving the CIA, Hmong forces, and the Royal Lao Government against communist Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese forces.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Secret War in Laos
Target entity description: Secret War in Laos refers to the covert U.S.-backed military campaign and proxy conflict in Laos during the Vietnam War era, involving the CIA, Hmong forces, and the Royal Lao Government against communist Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese forces.
  • A. Brigade 2506
    Brigade 2506 was a CIA-sponsored paramilitary group of Cuban exiles that carried out the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion against Fidel Castro’s government.
  • B. Strategic Hamlet Program
    The Strategic Hamlet Program was a controversial early-1960s South Vietnamese counterinsurgency initiative that sought to isolate rural populations from Viet Cong influence by relocating villagers into fortified settlements.
  • C. Merrill's Marauders
    Merrill's Marauders were a famed American long-range jungle warfare unit of World War II that conducted deep-penetration missions behind Japanese lines in the China-Burma-India theater.
  • D. Crypt of the Unknown from the Vietnam War
    The Crypt of the Unknown from the Vietnam War is a burial vault at Arlington National Cemetery that once honored an unidentified American service member from the Vietnam War as part of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
  • E. Armed Freedom
    Armed Freedom is the bronze allegorical statue of a helmeted female figure representing liberty that crowns the dome of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
  • 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_69a498da82e08190ba833330d05f380f completed March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c6a3325881909bbc55efc04ad60f completed March 1, 2026, 11:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad1ca4c4e481909ea0ca76841454b1 completed March 8, 2026, 6:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad1d28d8708190b284676ff407c3ec completed March 8, 2026, 6:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad1ea291448190ba1c8593d11f86ee completed March 8, 2026, 7 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:12 p.m.