Triple

T19744753
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nicholson Baker E474220 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act is a nonfiction book by Nicholson Baker that investigates U.S. government secrecy and declassified documents through the lens of the Freedom of Information Act.
E1393156 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: Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act | Statement: [Nicholson Baker, notableWork, Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
Context triple: [Nicholson Baker, notableWork, Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act]
  • A. Act on the Openness of Government Activities
    The Act on the Openness of Government Activities is a key Finnish transparency law that guarantees public access to official documents and promotes open, accountable government administration.
  • B. The Intercept
    The Intercept is an online news publication known for its investigative journalism, focus on national security and civil liberties, and adversarial reporting on government and corporate power.
  • C. Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
    "Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free" is a nonfiction book by Cory Doctorow that critiques modern copyright and digital rights regimes while advocating for open culture and user freedoms in the digital age.
  • D. The Snowden Files
    The Snowden Files is a non-fiction book by journalist Luke Harding that chronicles Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations and their global impact.
  • E. Before the Fact
    Before the Fact is a 1932 psychological crime novel by Anthony Berkeley Cox (writing as Francis Iles), best known as the dark, suspenseful source material for Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Suspicion."
  • 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: Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
Triple: [Nicholson Baker, notableWork, Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act]
Generated description
Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act is a nonfiction book by Nicholson Baker that investigates U.S. government secrecy and declassified documents through the lens of the Freedom of Information Act.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
Target entity description: Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act is a nonfiction book by Nicholson Baker that investigates U.S. government secrecy and declassified documents through the lens of the Freedom of Information Act.
  • A. Act on the Openness of Government Activities
    The Act on the Openness of Government Activities is a key Finnish transparency law that guarantees public access to official documents and promotes open, accountable government administration.
  • B. The Intercept
    The Intercept is an online news publication known for its investigative journalism, focus on national security and civil liberties, and adversarial reporting on government and corporate power.
  • C. Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
    "Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free" is a nonfiction book by Cory Doctorow that critiques modern copyright and digital rights regimes while advocating for open culture and user freedoms in the digital age.
  • D. The Snowden Files
    The Snowden Files is a non-fiction book by journalist Luke Harding that chronicles Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations and their global impact.
  • E. Before the Fact
    Before the Fact is a 1932 psychological crime novel by Anthony Berkeley Cox (writing as Francis Iles), best known as the dark, suspenseful source material for Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Suspicion."
  • 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_69d8e51940a0819087bd2996f98da668 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e652923fd48190982c51c39814fd08 completed April 20, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07b501e7348190bf2b14c98cd7cdb0 completed May 16, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07b60822688190b840b21173c45054 completed May 16, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07b6c9fc8c8190825953f50935833e completed May 16, 2026, 12:14 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:47 p.m.