Triple

T508914
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Telford Taylor E10561 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy
Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy is a 1970 book by legal scholar Telford Taylor that argues U.S. conduct in the Vietnam War should be judged by the same principles of international law applied at the Nuremberg trials.
E63490 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: Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy | Statement: [Telford Taylor, notableWork, Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy
Context triple: [Telford Taylor, notableWork, Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy]
  • A. Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy
    "Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy" is a historical and analytical book in which former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and others reassess the decisions and misunderstandings that led to and prolonged the Vietnam War.
  • B. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
    *In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam* is a memoir by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in which he reflects on and critiques American decision-making during the Vietnam War, acknowledging major errors and drawing lessons for future policy.
  • C. The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials
    The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials is a detailed historical and legal account of the post–World War II Nuremberg war crimes proceedings, written by chief prosecutor Telford Taylor.
  • D. A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
    "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide" is Samantha Power’s Pulitzer Prize–winning examination of U.S. responses to genocides in the 20th century and the political, moral, and bureaucratic forces that shaped them.
  • E. Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
    Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia is a 1979 documentary film that exposes the devastation and human suffering in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge regime and the impact of Western policies on the country.
  • 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: Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy
Triple: [Telford Taylor, notableWork, Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy]
Generated description
Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy is a 1970 book by legal scholar Telford Taylor that argues U.S. conduct in the Vietnam War should be judged by the same principles of international law applied at the Nuremberg trials.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy
Target entity description: Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy is a 1970 book by legal scholar Telford Taylor that argues U.S. conduct in the Vietnam War should be judged by the same principles of international law applied at the Nuremberg trials.
  • A. Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy
    "Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy" is a historical and analytical book in which former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and others reassess the decisions and misunderstandings that led to and prolonged the Vietnam War.
  • B. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
    *In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam* is a memoir by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in which he reflects on and critiques American decision-making during the Vietnam War, acknowledging major errors and drawing lessons for future policy.
  • C. The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials
    The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials is a detailed historical and legal account of the post–World War II Nuremberg war crimes proceedings, written by chief prosecutor Telford Taylor.
  • D. A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
    "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide" is Samantha Power’s Pulitzer Prize–winning examination of U.S. responses to genocides in the 20th century and the political, moral, and bureaucratic forces that shaped them.
  • E. Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
    Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia is a 1979 documentary film that exposes the devastation and human suffering in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge regime and the impact of Western policies on the country.
  • 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_69a2e848adf881908e5e04f7af030093 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f162f3888190b057ad04e40a30e2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a49ebaf5c48190b24614b2a1ab9466 completed March 1, 2026, 8:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a49f48310c8190b32590d22d5728ba completed March 1, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a49ff5aea48190b84eba05fca4278a completed March 1, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.