Triple
T23314075
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Soviet military tribunals |
E590655
|
entity |
| Predicate | relatedTo |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | NKVD troikas |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: NKVD troikas | Statement: [Soviet military tribunals, relatedTo, NKVD troikas]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: NKVD troikas Context triple: [Soviet military tribunals, relatedTo, NKVD troikas]
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A.
NKVD
The NKVD was the Soviet Union’s interior ministry and secret police organization, notorious for political repression, mass arrests, and executions, especially under Joseph Stalin.
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B.
Yezhovshchina
Yezhovshchina refers to the most intense phase of Stalin’s Great Purge in the late 1930s, marked by mass arrests, executions, and widespread political repression under NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov.
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C.
SMERSH
SMERSH was a Soviet World War II-era military counterintelligence organization notorious for its role in security, espionage, and the suppression of perceived enemies within the Red Army and occupied territories.
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D.
Cheka
The Cheka was the Soviet Union’s first secret police organization, notorious for its role in political repression, mass executions, and enforcing Bolshevik rule during and after the Russian Civil War.
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E.
Cheka tribunals
Cheka tribunals were revolutionary courts of Soviet Russia’s secret police that conducted rapid, often extrajudicial proceedings against perceived enemies of the Bolshevik regime.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: NKVD troikas Target entity description: NKVD troikas were extrajudicial three-person commissions in the Soviet Union that rapidly issued mass death and imprisonment sentences during Stalinist purges without proper legal process.
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A.
NKVD
The NKVD was the Soviet Union’s interior ministry and secret police organization, notorious for political repression, mass arrests, and executions, especially under Joseph Stalin.
-
B.
Yezhovshchina
Yezhovshchina refers to the most intense phase of Stalin’s Great Purge in the late 1930s, marked by mass arrests, executions, and widespread political repression under NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov.
-
C.
SMERSH
SMERSH was a Soviet World War II-era military counterintelligence organization notorious for its role in security, espionage, and the suppression of perceived enemies within the Red Army and occupied territories.
-
D.
Cheka
The Cheka was the Soviet Union’s first secret police organization, notorious for its role in political repression, mass executions, and enforcing Bolshevik rule during and after the Russian Civil War.
-
E.
Cheka tribunals
Cheka tribunals were revolutionary courts of Soviet Russia’s secret police that conducted rapid, often extrajudicial proceedings against perceived enemies of the Bolshevik regime.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (2 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_69e25d1d32188190948eb76909d1dcc3 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f1977ee5d08190a9519d7867d6bef9 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 5:30 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:06 p.m.