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]
  • 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
    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.
  • 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.