Triple
T3202422
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | House Un-American Activities Committee |
E67080
|
entity |
| Predicate | significantEvent |
P259
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Alger Hiss hearings
The Alger Hiss hearings were a series of high-profile U.S. congressional investigations in the late 1940s into allegations that State Department official Alger Hiss had engaged in espionage for the Soviet Union, becoming a defining episode of early Cold War anti-communist politics.
|
E67080
|
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: Alger Hiss hearings | Statement: [House Un-American Activities Committee, significantEvent, Alger Hiss hearings]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alger Hiss hearings Context triple: [House Un-American Activities Committee, significantEvent, Alger Hiss hearings]
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A.
Moscow Trials
The Moscow Trials were a series of highly publicized show trials in the late 1930s Soviet Union, where many Old Bolsheviks and other alleged opponents of Joseph Stalin were forced to confess to fabricated crimes and subsequently executed or imprisoned.
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B.
Kefauver Committee
The Kefauver Committee was a U.S. Senate investigative committee in the early 1950s that exposed organized crime’s influence in American politics and business through nationally televised hearings.
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C.
Wickersham Commission
The Wickersham Commission was a presidentially appointed body in the early 1930s that investigated U.S. law enforcement and criminal justice, including the effects of Prohibition, and issued influential reports highlighting widespread corruption and abuses.
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D.
Condon Report
The Condon Report is a 1968 scientific study commissioned by the U.S. Air Force that concluded further systematic investigation of UFOs was unlikely to yield significant scientific discoveries.
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E.
House Un-American Activities Committee
The House Un-American Activities Committee was a U.S. House of Representatives committee best known for investigating alleged communist influence and subversive activities, particularly in Hollywood and other cultural institutions, during the mid-20th century.
- 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: Alger Hiss hearings Triple: [House Un-American Activities Committee, significantEvent, Alger Hiss hearings]
Generated description
The Alger Hiss hearings were a series of high-profile U.S. congressional investigations in the late 1940s into allegations that State Department official Alger Hiss had engaged in espionage for the Soviet Union, becoming a defining episode of early Cold War anti-communist politics.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alger Hiss hearings Target entity description: The Alger Hiss hearings were a series of high-profile U.S. congressional investigations in the late 1940s into allegations that State Department official Alger Hiss had engaged in espionage for the Soviet Union, becoming a defining episode of early Cold War anti-communist politics.
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A.
Moscow Trials
The Moscow Trials were a series of highly publicized show trials in the late 1930s Soviet Union, where many Old Bolsheviks and other alleged opponents of Joseph Stalin were forced to confess to fabricated crimes and subsequently executed or imprisoned.
-
B.
Kefauver Committee
The Kefauver Committee was a U.S. Senate investigative committee in the early 1950s that exposed organized crime’s influence in American politics and business through nationally televised hearings.
-
C.
Wickersham Commission
The Wickersham Commission was a presidentially appointed body in the early 1930s that investigated U.S. law enforcement and criminal justice, including the effects of Prohibition, and issued influential reports highlighting widespread corruption and abuses.
-
D.
Condon Report
The Condon Report is a 1968 scientific study commissioned by the U.S. Air Force that concluded further systematic investigation of UFOs was unlikely to yield significant scientific discoveries.
-
E.
House Un-American Activities Committee
chosen
The House Un-American Activities Committee was a U.S. House of Representatives committee best known for investigating alleged communist influence and subversive activities, particularly in Hollywood and other cultural institutions, during the mid-20th century.
- 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_69ad8589bd988190afa7ed2bdffb7b33 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ada9b046c8819087c0a61c4f9adeb7 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 4:54 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b24bc7772c8190b286141dac5ea778 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 5:14 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b24ca05434819080ee515b1e7bdcb4 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 5:18 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b24d19250c81908a9c3ac95b83a473 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 5:20 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:07 p.m.