Triple
T7209414
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror |
E148759
|
entity |
| Predicate | relatedTo |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Project MKUltra |
E149412
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Project MKUltra | Statement: [A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror, relatedTo, Project MKUltra]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Project MKUltra Context triple: [A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror, relatedTo, Project MKUltra]
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A.
Operation Substance
Operation Substance was a World War II Royal Navy convoy operation aimed at resupplying the besieged island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
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B.
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
chosen
"Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control" is a nonfiction book by Stephen Kinzer that investigates the life of CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb and his central role in the agency’s secret MK-Ultra mind control experiments.
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C.
Operation Paperclip
Operation Paperclip was a secret U.S. government program that recruited and relocated German scientists and engineers, many from the Nazi regime, to work on American military and space research after World War II.
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D.
Operation Cyclone
Operation Cyclone was a covert CIA program during the Cold War that funneled money, weapons, and training to Afghan mujahideen fighters resisting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
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E.
Project 1950
Project 1950 is a Misfits studio album featuring punk rock covers of classic 1950s and 1960s pop songs.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c687e8cf188190b5f3ecffd681f04e |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6e96c46dc819080a6b40456d7b068 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 8:32 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c7bfc4e6688190ad9e0d31505e65af |
completed | March 28, 2026, 11:47 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:52 p.m.