Triple

T19335674
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mitchell Reiss E483615 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Negotiating with Evil: When to Talk to Terrorists
"Negotiating with Evil: When to Talk to Terrorists" is a non-fiction book by diplomat and scholar Mitchell Reiss that analyzes the dilemmas, strategies, and historical cases surrounding whether and how governments should negotiate with terrorist organizations.
E1370669 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: Negotiating with Evil: When to Talk to Terrorists | Statement: [Mitchell Reiss, notableWork, Negotiating with Evil: When to Talk to Terrorists]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Negotiating with Evil: When to Talk to Terrorists
Context triple: [Mitchell Reiss, notableWork, Negotiating with Evil: When to Talk to Terrorists]
  • A. Talking to Terrorists: Why America Must Engage with Its Enemies
    Talking to Terrorists: Why America Must Engage with Its Enemies is a non-fiction book by historian and analyst Mark Perry arguing that U.S. national security requires direct dialogue and negotiation with designated terrorist organizations.
  • B. What Terrorists Want
    "What Terrorists Want" is a scholarly book by Louise Richardson that analyzes the motivations, strategies, and objectives of terrorist groups in order to inform more effective counterterrorism policies.
  • C. FBI crisis negotiation doctrine
    FBI crisis negotiation doctrine is the formal body of principles, strategies, and procedures that guides how FBI negotiators manage and resolve high-risk incidents through communication and de-escalation.
  • D. An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror
    "An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror" is a neoconservative policy book advocating an aggressive, interventionist U.S. strategy to defeat terrorism and reshape the Middle East.
  • E. Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
    "Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror" is a memoir by former CIA and NSA director Michael V. Hayden that offers an insider account of U.S. intelligence operations and challenges in the post-9/11 era.
  • 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: Negotiating with Evil: When to Talk to Terrorists
Triple: [Mitchell Reiss, notableWork, Negotiating with Evil: When to Talk to Terrorists]
Generated description
"Negotiating with Evil: When to Talk to Terrorists" is a non-fiction book by diplomat and scholar Mitchell Reiss that analyzes the dilemmas, strategies, and historical cases surrounding whether and how governments should negotiate with terrorist organizations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Negotiating with Evil: When to Talk to Terrorists
Target entity description: "Negotiating with Evil: When to Talk to Terrorists" is a non-fiction book by diplomat and scholar Mitchell Reiss that analyzes the dilemmas, strategies, and historical cases surrounding whether and how governments should negotiate with terrorist organizations.
  • A. Talking to Terrorists: Why America Must Engage with Its Enemies
    Talking to Terrorists: Why America Must Engage with Its Enemies is a non-fiction book by historian and analyst Mark Perry arguing that U.S. national security requires direct dialogue and negotiation with designated terrorist organizations.
  • B. What Terrorists Want
    "What Terrorists Want" is a scholarly book by Louise Richardson that analyzes the motivations, strategies, and objectives of terrorist groups in order to inform more effective counterterrorism policies.
  • C. FBI crisis negotiation doctrine
    FBI crisis negotiation doctrine is the formal body of principles, strategies, and procedures that guides how FBI negotiators manage and resolve high-risk incidents through communication and de-escalation.
  • D. An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror
    "An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror" is a neoconservative policy book advocating an aggressive, interventionist U.S. strategy to defeat terrorism and reshape the Middle East.
  • E. Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
    "Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror" is a memoir by former CIA and NSA director Michael V. Hayden that offers an insider account of U.S. intelligence operations and challenges in the post-9/11 era.
  • 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_69d8e8d13e3c81909d91d1d5ec37c095 completed April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e61644b80c819080f9bca086424a36 completed April 20, 2026, 12:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a071be4ca388190986a61eb535df4bd completed May 15, 2026, 1:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a071ca19f308190ac9072c5a8d3b665 completed May 15, 2026, 1:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a071de35b9081908d1b6e797cbe69ce completed May 15, 2026, 1:21 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:33 p.m.