Triple

T7211469
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control E149412 entity
Predicate portrays P264 FINISHED
Object Sidney Gottlieb as head of MKUltra
Sidney Gottlieb was a CIA chemist who led the MKUltra program, overseeing covert experiments with drugs, hypnosis, and other methods in an attempt to develop techniques for mind control and interrogation during the Cold War.
E648503 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 as head of MKUltra | Statement: [Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, portrays, Sidney Gottlieb as head of MKUltra]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sidney Gottlieb as head of MKUltra
Context triple: [Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, portrays, Sidney Gottlieb as head of MKUltra]
  • A. Timothy Leary
    Timothy Leary was an American psychologist and writer best known for advocating the therapeutic and spiritual use of psychedelic drugs during the 1960s counterculture movement.
  • B. Robert Keyes
    Robert Keyes was an English Catholic conspirator best known for his role in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament and assassinate King James I.
  • C. CIA officer Richard M. Bissell Jr.
    Richard M. Bissell Jr. was a senior CIA officer best known for overseeing major Cold War covert operations, including the U-2 spy plane program and the Bay of Pigs invasion.
  • D. Mark Agnew
    Mark Agnew is a professional associated with Lakeside School as one of its notable alumni, recognized for his subsequent career achievements.
  • E. G. Gordon Liddy
    G. Gordon Liddy was an American lawyer, FBI agent, and political operative best known as a key architect of the Watergate break-in and later a conservative media personality.
  • 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 as head of MKUltra
Triple: [Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, portrays, Sidney Gottlieb as head of MKUltra]
Generated description
Sidney Gottlieb was a CIA chemist who led the MKUltra program, overseeing covert experiments with drugs, hypnosis, and other methods in an attempt to develop techniques for mind control and interrogation during the Cold War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sidney Gottlieb as head of MKUltra
Target entity description: Sidney Gottlieb was a CIA chemist who led the MKUltra program, overseeing covert experiments with drugs, hypnosis, and other methods in an attempt to develop techniques for mind control and interrogation during the Cold War.
  • A. Timothy Leary
    Timothy Leary was an American psychologist and writer best known for advocating the therapeutic and spiritual use of psychedelic drugs during the 1960s counterculture movement.
  • B. Robert Keyes
    Robert Keyes was an English Catholic conspirator best known for his role in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament and assassinate King James I.
  • C. CIA officer Richard M. Bissell Jr.
    Richard M. Bissell Jr. was a senior CIA officer best known for overseeing major Cold War covert operations, including the U-2 spy plane program and the Bay of Pigs invasion.
  • D. Mark Agnew
    Mark Agnew is a professional associated with Lakeside School as one of its notable alumni, recognized for his subsequent career achievements.
  • E. G. Gordon Liddy
    G. Gordon Liddy was an American lawyer, FBI agent, and political operative best known as a key architect of the Watergate break-in and later a conservative media personality.
  • 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.