Triple

T4381652
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Merkle–Damgård construction E99142 entity
Predicate formalizedIn P6279 FINISHED
Object Damgård 1989 paper
The Damgård 1989 paper is a foundational cryptography work that rigorously analyzes and proves the security properties of the Merkle–Damgård construction for building collision-resistant hash functions from fixed-length compression functions.
E434688 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: Damgård 1989 paper | Statement: [Merkle–Damgård construction, formalizedIn, Damgård 1989 paper]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Damgård 1989 paper
Context triple: [Merkle–Damgård construction, formalizedIn, Damgård 1989 paper]
  • A. New Directions in Cryptography
    New Directions in Cryptography is a landmark 1976 paper that introduced the concepts of public-key cryptography and digital signatures, fundamentally reshaping modern cryptography and secure communications.
  • B. Probabilistic Encryption
    Probabilistic Encryption is a cryptographic technique that uses randomness in the encryption process so that the same message encrypts to different ciphertexts, enhancing security against attackers.
  • C. Secrecy, Authentication, and Public Key Systems
    "Secrecy, Authentication, and Public Key Systems" is Ralph Merkle's influential doctoral thesis that helped lay the foundations of modern public-key cryptography and secure communication protocols.
  • D. Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs and Pseudorandomness
    "Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs and Pseudorandomness" is a foundational textbook that systematically develops the theoretical underpinnings of modern cryptography, focusing on probabilistic proof techniques and the theory of pseudorandomness.
  • E. Blum–Micali pseudorandom number generator
    The Blum–Micali pseudorandom number generator is a foundational cryptographic algorithm that produces provably secure pseudorandom bits based on number-theoretic hardness assumptions.
  • 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: Damgård 1989 paper
Triple: [Merkle–Damgård construction, formalizedIn, Damgård 1989 paper]
Generated description
The Damgård 1989 paper is a foundational cryptography work that rigorously analyzes and proves the security properties of the Merkle–Damgård construction for building collision-resistant hash functions from fixed-length compression functions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Damgård 1989 paper
Target entity description: The Damgård 1989 paper is a foundational cryptography work that rigorously analyzes and proves the security properties of the Merkle–Damgård construction for building collision-resistant hash functions from fixed-length compression functions.
  • A. New Directions in Cryptography
    New Directions in Cryptography is a landmark 1976 paper that introduced the concepts of public-key cryptography and digital signatures, fundamentally reshaping modern cryptography and secure communications.
  • B. Probabilistic Encryption
    Probabilistic Encryption is a cryptographic technique that uses randomness in the encryption process so that the same message encrypts to different ciphertexts, enhancing security against attackers.
  • C. Secrecy, Authentication, and Public Key Systems
    "Secrecy, Authentication, and Public Key Systems" is Ralph Merkle's influential doctoral thesis that helped lay the foundations of modern public-key cryptography and secure communication protocols.
  • D. Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs and Pseudorandomness
    "Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs and Pseudorandomness" is a foundational textbook that systematically develops the theoretical underpinnings of modern cryptography, focusing on probabilistic proof techniques and the theory of pseudorandomness.
  • E. Blum–Micali pseudorandom number generator
    The Blum–Micali pseudorandom number generator is a foundational cryptographic algorithm that produces provably secure pseudorandom bits based on number-theoretic hardness assumptions.
  • 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_69b3454ea8f48190a49c2436624d6ef6 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b352613dd481909e008a8db239a108 completed March 12, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5e51ff9188190aa4581d451feaafd completed March 14, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5e5c1cf2c8190b397f249090e7ce6 completed March 14, 2026, 10:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5e61acb988190a6f4d7b2bffb2953 completed March 14, 2026, 10:50 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:18 p.m.