Triple
T687576
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Yezhovshchina |
E13316
|
entity |
| Predicate | followedBy |
P78
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Beria period of the NKVD
The Beria period of the NKVD refers to the era when Lavrentiy Beria led the Soviet security apparatus, marked by a partial rollback of the Great Terror’s mass repressions and a shift toward more controlled, politically targeted security operations.
|
E85282
|
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: Beria period of the NKVD | Statement: [Yezhovshchina, followedBy, Beria period of the NKVD]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Beria period of the NKVD Context triple: [Yezhovshchina, followedBy, Beria period of the NKVD]
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A.
NKVD
The NKVD was the Soviet Union’s interior ministry and secret police organization, notorious for political repression, mass arrests, and executions, especially under Joseph Stalin.
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B.
Stalin era
The Stalin era was the period of Joseph Stalin’s rule over the Soviet Union, marked by rapid industrialization, forced collectivization, intense political repression, and the establishment of a totalitarian regime.
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C.
Yezhovshchina
Yezhovshchina refers to the most intense phase of Stalin’s Great Purge in the late 1930s, marked by mass arrests, executions, and widespread political repression under NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov.
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D.
Soviet period
The Soviet period was the era from 1922 to 1991 when the Soviet Union existed as a socialist state dominating much of Eastern Europe and northern Asia under a one-party communist system.
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E.
Stalinist repressions
Stalinist repressions were a series of brutal state-sponsored persecutions, mass arrests, executions, and engineered famines under Joseph Stalin’s rule in the Soviet Union, targeting perceived political enemies and entire social groups.
- 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: Beria period of the NKVD Triple: [Yezhovshchina, followedBy, Beria period of the NKVD]
Generated description
The Beria period of the NKVD refers to the era when Lavrentiy Beria led the Soviet security apparatus, marked by a partial rollback of the Great Terror’s mass repressions and a shift toward more controlled, politically targeted security operations.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Beria period of the NKVD Target entity description: The Beria period of the NKVD refers to the era when Lavrentiy Beria led the Soviet security apparatus, marked by a partial rollback of the Great Terror’s mass repressions and a shift toward more controlled, politically targeted security operations.
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A.
NKVD
The NKVD was the Soviet Union’s interior ministry and secret police organization, notorious for political repression, mass arrests, and executions, especially under Joseph Stalin.
-
B.
Stalin era
The Stalin era was the period of Joseph Stalin’s rule over the Soviet Union, marked by rapid industrialization, forced collectivization, intense political repression, and the establishment of a totalitarian regime.
-
C.
Yezhovshchina
Yezhovshchina refers to the most intense phase of Stalin’s Great Purge in the late 1930s, marked by mass arrests, executions, and widespread political repression under NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov.
-
D.
Soviet period
The Soviet period was the era from 1922 to 1991 when the Soviet Union existed as a socialist state dominating much of Eastern Europe and northern Asia under a one-party communist system.
-
E.
Stalinist repressions
Stalinist repressions were a series of brutal state-sponsored persecutions, mass arrests, executions, and engineered famines under Joseph Stalin’s rule in the Soviet Union, targeting perceived political enemies and entire social groups.
- 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_69a4933e0f98819097d22766c49b61b8 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4a0953fb481909e1d4177ee191351 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:24 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a5dca352248190a3e1b4e4c58a1e7f |
completed | March 2, 2026, 6:53 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a5dd2e39808190ab116593299a94f8 |
completed | March 2, 2026, 6:55 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a5fe3bb2a08190a01ce2ed8b52ee4a |
completed | March 2, 2026, 9:16 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.