Triple

T1105171
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Silence of the Lambs E25471 entity
Predicate mainAntagonist P4675 FINISHED
Object Buffalo Bill E130830 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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, mainAntagonist, 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, mainAntagonist, Buffalo Bill]
  • A. Buffalo Bill chosen
    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."
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69ac66293b5c819091eb69db328d5698 completed March 7, 2026, 5:53 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.