Triple

T5087
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert McNamara E99 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Wilson’s Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century
"Wilson’s Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century" is a non-fiction book co-authored by former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara that reflects on lessons from 20th-century warfare to propose strategies for preventing large-scale conflict and mass violence in the modern world.
E382 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: Wilson’s Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century | Statement: [Robert McNamara, notableWork, Wilson’s Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wilson’s Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century
Context triple: [Robert McNamara, notableWork, Wilson’s Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century]
  • A. Triumphant Democracy
    Triumphant Democracy is a political and social treatise by industrialist Andrew Carnegie that praises American democratic institutions and contrasts them favorably with the British system of government.
  • B. Mens et Manus
    Mens et Manus is the Latin motto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expressing the union of mind and hand in the pursuit of knowledge and practical application.
  • C. All Hail to Massachusetts
    "All Hail to Massachusetts" is the official state song that celebrates the history, pride, and heritage of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  • D. As We May Think
    As We May Think is a seminal 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush that envisioned hypertext-like information systems and profoundly influenced the development of modern computing and the internet.
  • E. Blitz
    The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
  • 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: Wilson’s Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century
Triple: [Robert McNamara, notableWork, Wilson’s Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century]
Generated description
"Wilson’s Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century" is a non-fiction book co-authored by former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara that reflects on lessons from 20th-century warfare to propose strategies for preventing large-scale conflict and mass violence in the modern world.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wilson’s Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century
Target entity description: "Wilson’s Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century" is a non-fiction book co-authored by former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara that reflects on lessons from 20th-century warfare to propose strategies for preventing large-scale conflict and mass violence in the modern world.
  • A. Triumphant Democracy
    Triumphant Democracy is a political and social treatise by industrialist Andrew Carnegie that praises American democratic institutions and contrasts them favorably with the British system of government.
  • B. Mens et Manus
    Mens et Manus is the Latin motto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expressing the union of mind and hand in the pursuit of knowledge and practical application.
  • C. All Hail to Massachusetts
    "All Hail to Massachusetts" is the official state song that celebrates the history, pride, and heritage of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  • D. As We May Think
    As We May Think is a seminal 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush that envisioned hypertext-like information systems and profoundly influenced the development of modern computing and the internet.
  • E. Blitz
    The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
  • 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_69a238d6b47881909e68288aed2fd858 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:37 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2399d5cf88190998f9b95c817a60f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a23d871f1081909f1690b0fdf5afd0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a23f93f3488190ba464dc9f36c837f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a23fff6a588190b64366758e5f1c4f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 12:40 a.m.