Triple
T7209466
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power |
E148761
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Alfred W. McCoy |
E27806
|
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: Alfred W. McCoy | Statement: [In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power, author, Alfred W. McCoy]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred W. McCoy Context triple: [In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power, author, Alfred W. McCoy]
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A.
Alfred W. McCoy
chosen
Alfred W. McCoy is an American historian and author known for his influential work on U.S. foreign policy, empire, and the global drug trade.
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B.
Chalmers Johnson
Chalmers Johnson was an American political scientist and author best known for his influential critiques of U.S. foreign policy and imperial overreach, particularly in works like "Blowback."
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C.
Stephen Kinzer
Stephen Kinzer is an American author and former New York Times foreign correspondent known for his books on U.S. foreign policy, regime change, and the history of American intervention abroad.
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D.
Juan Cole
Juan Cole is an American historian and commentator best known for his expertise on the modern Middle East and U.S. foreign policy.
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E.
Fredrik Logevall
Fredrik Logevall is a Swedish-born American historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning author known for his scholarship on the Vietnam War and U.S. foreign policy.
- 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_69c802a38b608190bb87dd9af4fd3ef5 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 4:32 p.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:52 p.m.