Triple

T49106
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Crucible E965 entity
Predicate mainSubject P3 FINISHED
Object 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.
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: McCarthyism | Statement: [The Crucible, mainSubject, McCarthyism]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McCarthyism
Context triple: [The Crucible, mainSubject, McCarthyism]
  • A. Cold War
    The Cold War was a prolonged period of geopolitical tension and ideological rivalry between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies, spanning roughly from the late 1940s to the early 1990s.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Truman Doctrine
    The Truman Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy announced in 1947 that committed the United States to providing political, military, and economic assistance to countries threatened by communism, marking the start of the Cold War containment strategy.
  • D. 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.
  • E. NSC-68
    NSC-68 was a pivotal 1950 U.S. national security policy paper that called for a massive military buildup and global containment strategy against Soviet expansion during the early Cold War.
  • 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: McCarthyism
Triple: [The Crucible, mainSubject, McCarthyism]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McCarthyism
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. Cold War
    The Cold War was a prolonged period of geopolitical tension and ideological rivalry between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies, spanning roughly from the late 1940s to the early 1990s.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Truman Doctrine
    The Truman Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy announced in 1947 that committed the United States to providing political, military, and economic assistance to countries threatened by communism, marking the start of the Cold War containment strategy.
  • D. 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.
  • E. NSC-68
    NSC-68 was a pivotal 1950 U.S. national security policy paper that called for a massive military buildup and global containment strategy against Soviet expansion during the early Cold War.
  • 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_69a2480baefc81909951b14058479aa2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:42 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24af3e4a88190abe2f0c5a0e83ff3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a24e659ac48190a11b70a85867d784 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a24eff3f0881909b46502175682d99 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2542d9b388190bcc4581c3b79aa51 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:47 a.m.