Triple

T17758542
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herbert F. York E443306 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Race to Oblivion: A Participant’s View of the Arms Race
Race to Oblivion: A Participant’s View of the Arms Race is a nonfiction book in which physicist and defense insider Herbert F. York critically examines the Cold War nuclear arms buildup from his firsthand perspective.
E1287309 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: Race to Oblivion: A Participant’s View of the Arms Race | Statement: [Herbert F. York, notableWork, Race to Oblivion: A Participant’s View of the Arms Race]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Race to Oblivion: A Participant’s View of the Arms Race
Context triple: [Herbert F. York, notableWork, Race to Oblivion: A Participant’s View of the Arms Race]
  • A. Defense in the Nuclear Age
    Defense in the Nuclear Age is a seminal work of military and strategic analysis that examines how the advent of nuclear weapons transformed concepts of defense, deterrence, and international security policy.
  • B. Moving Targets: Nuclear Strategy and National Security
    Moving Targets: Nuclear Strategy and National Security is a scholarly book by political scientist Scott D. Sagan that analyzes the evolution, risks, and policy implications of U.S. nuclear strategy in the post–Cold War era.
  • C. The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons
    The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons is a seminal study in security studies and organizational theory that analyzes how complex organizational processes and human factors can lead to nuclear accidents despite extensive safety measures.
  • D. The Arms Race: A Programme for World Disarmament
    The Arms Race: A Programme for World Disarmament is a seminal book advocating comprehensive global disarmament and analyzing the dangers of military escalation.
  • E. Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years
    Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years is a historical and analytical study of nuclear weapons policy and strategy during the first half-century of the atomic age, written by former U.S. national security adviser McGeorge Bundy.
  • 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: Race to Oblivion: A Participant’s View of the Arms Race
Triple: [Herbert F. York, notableWork, Race to Oblivion: A Participant’s View of the Arms Race]
Generated description
Race to Oblivion: A Participant’s View of the Arms Race is a nonfiction book in which physicist and defense insider Herbert F. York critically examines the Cold War nuclear arms buildup from his firsthand perspective.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Race to Oblivion: A Participant’s View of the Arms Race
Target entity description: Race to Oblivion: A Participant’s View of the Arms Race is a nonfiction book in which physicist and defense insider Herbert F. York critically examines the Cold War nuclear arms buildup from his firsthand perspective.
  • A. Defense in the Nuclear Age
    Defense in the Nuclear Age is a seminal work of military and strategic analysis that examines how the advent of nuclear weapons transformed concepts of defense, deterrence, and international security policy.
  • B. Moving Targets: Nuclear Strategy and National Security
    Moving Targets: Nuclear Strategy and National Security is a scholarly book by political scientist Scott D. Sagan that analyzes the evolution, risks, and policy implications of U.S. nuclear strategy in the post–Cold War era.
  • C. The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons
    The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons is a seminal study in security studies and organizational theory that analyzes how complex organizational processes and human factors can lead to nuclear accidents despite extensive safety measures.
  • D. The Arms Race: A Programme for World Disarmament
    The Arms Race: A Programme for World Disarmament is a seminal book advocating comprehensive global disarmament and analyzing the dangers of military escalation.
  • E. Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years
    Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years is a historical and analytical study of nuclear weapons policy and strategy during the first half-century of the atomic age, written by former U.S. national security adviser McGeorge Bundy.
  • 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_69d8b9edf16c8190a59ebd245d378f4f completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e48420ad188190aeb0f4ec1d23ee5c completed April 19, 2026, 7:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a02efb8d5288190802b6329fd13d5a9 completed May 12, 2026, 9:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a02f113a41c8190b17611eaa50516ca completed May 12, 2026, 9:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a02f1e980f4819087eb191e13396581 completed May 12, 2026, 9:24 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:10 a.m.