Triple
T7211442
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control |
E149412
|
entity |
| Predicate | subject |
P450
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Sidney Gottlieb
Sidney Gottlieb was a CIA chemist who led the agency’s MK-Ultra mind control program, overseeing covert experiments with LSD and other methods of psychological manipulation during the Cold War.
|
E648501
|
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: Sidney Gottlieb | Statement: [Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, subject, Sidney Gottlieb]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sidney Gottlieb Context triple: [Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, subject, Sidney Gottlieb]
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A.
Joseph Schildkraut
Joseph Schildkraut was an Austrian-American stage and film actor, best known for his roles in early Hollywood epics and for winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Life of Emile Zola."
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B.
Raymond Rosenthal
Raymond Rosenthal was an American literary translator renowned for bringing major Italian and other European works, including those of Primo Levi, into English.
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C.
David Wolffsohn
David Wolffsohn was a prominent early Zionist leader and close associate of Theodor Herzl who helped shape and organize the Zionist movement in its formative years.
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D.
Sidney Ehrlich
Sidney Ehrlich is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Ehrlich surname.
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E.
Albert Lewin
Albert Lewin was an American film producer, screenwriter, and director best known for his literate, art-infused studio films of the 1940s and 1950s, including the acclaimed adaptation of "The Picture of Dorian Gray."
- 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: Sidney Gottlieb Triple: [Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, subject, Sidney Gottlieb]
Generated description
Sidney Gottlieb was a CIA chemist who led the agency’s MK-Ultra mind control program, overseeing covert experiments with LSD and other methods of psychological manipulation during the Cold War.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sidney Gottlieb Target entity description: Sidney Gottlieb was a CIA chemist who led the agency’s MK-Ultra mind control program, overseeing covert experiments with LSD and other methods of psychological manipulation during the Cold War.
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A.
Joseph Schildkraut
Joseph Schildkraut was an Austrian-American stage and film actor, best known for his roles in early Hollywood epics and for winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Life of Emile Zola."
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B.
Raymond Rosenthal
Raymond Rosenthal was an American literary translator renowned for bringing major Italian and other European works, including those of Primo Levi, into English.
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C.
David Wolffsohn
David Wolffsohn was a prominent early Zionist leader and close associate of Theodor Herzl who helped shape and organize the Zionist movement in its formative years.
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D.
Sidney Ehrlich
Sidney Ehrlich is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Ehrlich surname.
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E.
Albert Lewin
Albert Lewin was an American film producer, screenwriter, and director best known for his literate, art-infused studio films of the 1940s and 1950s, including the acclaimed adaptation of "The Picture of Dorian Gray."
- 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_69c687eca814819095abb52316b1af80 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6e96f99088190a085476bcfca26fd |
completed | March 27, 2026, 8:32 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c7bfc9aae48190aa432ebc0034d9b8 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 11:47 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c7c071778881909a82eedf61cae22b |
completed | March 28, 2026, 11:50 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c7c111e05c8190a9cfba3fca1f8198 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 11:52 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:53 p.m.