Triple
T182815
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | McCarthyism |
E3913
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasPart |
P35
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
House Un-American Activities Committee hearings
The House Un-American Activities Committee hearings were highly publicized U.S. congressional investigations during the mid-20th century that sought to expose alleged communist influence in American institutions, particularly in government and Hollywood.
|
E3913
|
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: House Un-American Activities Committee hearings | Statement: [McCarthyism, hasPart, House Un-American Activities Committee hearings]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: House Un-American Activities Committee hearings Context triple: [McCarthyism, hasPart, House Un-American Activities Committee hearings]
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A.
McCarthyism
McCarthyism was a period of intense anti-communist suspicion and political repression in the United States during the early Cold War, marked by aggressive investigations, blacklisting, and accusations often made without proper evidence.
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B.
United States Senate Watergate Committee
The United States Senate Watergate Committee was a special investigative committee formed by the U.S. Senate in 1973 to publicly investigate the Watergate break-in and related abuses of power in the Nixon administration.
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C.
Saturday Night Massacre
The Saturday Night Massacre was the 1973 constitutional crisis during the Watergate scandal in which President Richard Nixon ordered the firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox, prompting the resignations of top Justice Department officials.
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D.
Watergate scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major 1970s American political scandal involving the Nixon administration’s attempts to cover up a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, ultimately leading to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
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E.
Hunter Commission
The Hunter Commission was a British-appointed committee of inquiry established in 1919 to investigate the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and related events in Punjab.
- 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: House Un-American Activities Committee hearings Triple: [McCarthyism, hasPart, House Un-American Activities Committee hearings]
Generated description
The House Un-American Activities Committee hearings were highly publicized U.S. congressional investigations during the mid-20th century that sought to expose alleged communist influence in American institutions, particularly in government and Hollywood.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: House Un-American Activities Committee hearings Target entity description: The House Un-American Activities Committee hearings were highly publicized U.S. congressional investigations during the mid-20th century that sought to expose alleged communist influence in American institutions, particularly in government and Hollywood.
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A.
McCarthyism
chosen
McCarthyism was a period of intense anti-communist suspicion and political repression in the United States during the early Cold War, marked by aggressive investigations, blacklisting, and accusations often made without proper evidence.
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B.
United States Senate Watergate Committee
The United States Senate Watergate Committee was a special investigative committee formed by the U.S. Senate in 1973 to publicly investigate the Watergate break-in and related abuses of power in the Nixon administration.
-
C.
Saturday Night Massacre
The Saturday Night Massacre was the 1973 constitutional crisis during the Watergate scandal in which President Richard Nixon ordered the firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox, prompting the resignations of top Justice Department officials.
-
D.
Watergate scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major 1970s American political scandal involving the Nixon administration’s attempts to cover up a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, ultimately leading to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
-
E.
Hunter Commission
The Hunter Commission was a British-appointed committee of inquiry established in 1919 to investigate the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and related events in Punjab.
- F. None of above.
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_69a25497e2f08190a040f8c6e1842643 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:36 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2592516748190a85ae58eec191f14 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:55 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a2fa7e41c88190bf15f5223d215ab8 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:23 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a2fb08e6bc81908d6067dcc9c9ffc9 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:26 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a2fb66d9188190b8de873fdb523f8f |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:27 p.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:40 a.m.