Triple

T22037056
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herman Kahn E544237 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object On Thermonuclear War
On Thermonuclear War is a 1960 book by strategist Herman Kahn that analyzes the logic, strategy, and potential consequences of nuclear warfare, controversially arguing that nuclear war could be planned for and, to some extent, survived.
E1516068 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: On Thermonuclear War | Statement: [Herman Kahn, notableWork, On Thermonuclear War]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On Thermonuclear War
Context triple: [Herman Kahn, notableWork, On Thermonuclear War]
  • A. The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
    The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner is Daniel Ellsberg’s memoir and exposé detailing the dangers, secrecy, and systemic flaws of U.S. nuclear war planning during the Cold War.
  • B. 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.
  • C. The Nuclear Age
    The Nuclear Age is a novel by Tim O'Brien that explores the psychological and social fallout of living under the shadow of nuclear annihilation during the Cold War.
  • D. Nuclear Winter
    Nuclear Winter is a now-retired battle royale–style game mode that was added as a major multiplayer-focused expansion to Fallout 76.
  • E. Dharma and the Bomb
    "Dharma and the Bomb" is a song by the American punk rock band Bad Religion, known for its fast tempo and politically charged lyrics.
  • 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: On Thermonuclear War
Triple: [Herman Kahn, notableWork, On Thermonuclear War]
Generated description
On Thermonuclear War is a 1960 book by strategist Herman Kahn that analyzes the logic, strategy, and potential consequences of nuclear warfare, controversially arguing that nuclear war could be planned for and, to some extent, survived.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On Thermonuclear War
Target entity description: On Thermonuclear War is a 1960 book by strategist Herman Kahn that analyzes the logic, strategy, and potential consequences of nuclear warfare, controversially arguing that nuclear war could be planned for and, to some extent, survived.
  • A. The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
    The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner is Daniel Ellsberg’s memoir and exposé detailing the dangers, secrecy, and systemic flaws of U.S. nuclear war planning during the Cold War.
  • B. 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.
  • C. The Nuclear Age
    The Nuclear Age is a novel by Tim O'Brien that explores the psychological and social fallout of living under the shadow of nuclear annihilation during the Cold War.
  • D. Nuclear Winter
    Nuclear Winter is a now-retired battle royale–style game mode that was added as a major multiplayer-focused expansion to Fallout 76.
  • E. Dharma and the Bomb
    "Dharma and the Bomb" is a song by the American punk rock band Bad Religion, known for its fast tempo and politically charged lyrics.
  • 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_69e11e2f98c8819083e11eab90942a78 completed April 16, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f127f32edc81909b6898af6621f56f completed April 28, 2026, 9:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a7b6b8bdc8190ad71f7fcddb497f1 completed May 18, 2026, 2:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a7c2705e48190aebbc7b0b6221757 completed May 18, 2026, 2:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a7ce3c684819090b25ca1e7596722 completed May 18, 2026, 2:43 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:25 p.m.