Triple
T1105144
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Silence of the Lambs |
E25471
|
entity |
| Predicate | character |
P662
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill is the fictional serial killer antagonist in Thomas Harris's novel and its film adaptation "The Silence of the Lambs," known for murdering women and skinning them to create a "woman suit."
|
E130830
|
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: Buffalo Bill | Statement: [The Silence of the Lambs, character, Buffalo Bill]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Buffalo Bill Context triple: [The Silence of the Lambs, character, Buffalo Bill]
-
A.
William F. Cody
William F. Cody, better known as "Buffalo Bill," was a famed American scout, showman, and frontiersman who became a legendary figure of the Old West.
-
B.
Kit Carson
Kit Carson was a 19th-century American frontiersman, explorer, and military scout renowned for his role in westward expansion and the mapping of the American West.
-
C.
Mad Anthony
Mad Anthony was the fiery and daring nickname of Anthony Wayne, a bold American Revolutionary War general known for his aggressive battlefield tactics.
-
D.
George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer was a U.S. Army officer and cavalry commander best known for his controversial leadership and death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn during the American Indian Wars.
-
E.
Red Cloud
Red Cloud was a prominent Oglala Lakota (Sioux) war leader and statesman best known for successfully leading resistance against U.S. military expansion during Red Cloud’s War in the late 1860s.
- 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: Buffalo Bill Triple: [The Silence of the Lambs, character, Buffalo Bill]
Generated description
Buffalo Bill is the fictional serial killer antagonist in Thomas Harris's novel and its film adaptation "The Silence of the Lambs," known for murdering women and skinning them to create a "woman suit."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Buffalo Bill Target entity description: Buffalo Bill is the fictional serial killer antagonist in Thomas Harris's novel and its film adaptation "The Silence of the Lambs," known for murdering women and skinning them to create a "woman suit."
-
A.
William F. Cody
William F. Cody, better known as "Buffalo Bill," was a famed American scout, showman, and frontiersman who became a legendary figure of the Old West.
-
B.
Kit Carson
Kit Carson was a 19th-century American frontiersman, explorer, and military scout renowned for his role in westward expansion and the mapping of the American West.
-
C.
Mad Anthony
Mad Anthony was the fiery and daring nickname of Anthony Wayne, a bold American Revolutionary War general known for his aggressive battlefield tactics.
-
D.
George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer was a U.S. Army officer and cavalry commander best known for his controversial leadership and death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn during the American Indian Wars.
-
E.
Red Cloud
Red Cloud was a prominent Oglala Lakota (Sioux) war leader and statesman best known for successfully leading resistance against U.S. military expansion during Red Cloud’s War in the late 1860s.
- 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_69a49428d4448190b3b36991ceae87ce |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4b9e21f048190bf4b63dd2c7c7641 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:12 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac59a221888190a3ffdb713e7cd143 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ac5a38ebb0819091cb81e23770ae50 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:02 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ac5aa2ad188190b4c6a29e3c2c8d79 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:04 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.