Triple

T14877505
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Zodiac Killer E349904 entity
Predicate notableCipher P59665 FINISHED
Object Z-32 cipher
The Z-32 cipher is one of the Zodiac Killer’s short, still-unsolved coded messages, believed to contain a clue to the location of a bomb or crime scene.
E1126877 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: Z-32 cipher | Statement: [Zodiac Killer, notableCipher, Z-32 cipher]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Z-32 cipher
Context triple: [Zodiac Killer, notableCipher, Z-32 cipher]
  • A. Z-13 cipher
    The Z-13 cipher is one of the Zodiac Killer’s shortest and most infamous unsolved cryptograms, consisting of just 13 characters that have fueled decades of speculation about its hidden message.
  • B. Serpent cipher
    Serpent cipher is a symmetric-key block cipher and former AES finalist known for its strong security margin and conservative design based on a substitution–permutation network structure.
  • C. Tunny cipher
    The Tunny cipher was a high-level German teleprinter encryption system used during World War II for strategic communications, whose interception and decryption at Bletchley Park significantly aided Allied codebreaking efforts.
  • D. Lucifer cipher
    The Lucifer cipher is an early block cipher developed at IBM by Horst Feistel that served as a foundational design precursor to the Data Encryption Standard (DES).
  • E. Spritz cipher
    Spritz cipher is a modern stream cipher and hash function designed by Ronald Rivest and Jacob Schuldt as a more secure and flexible successor to RC4.
  • 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: Z-32 cipher
Triple: [Zodiac Killer, notableCipher, Z-32 cipher]
Generated description
The Z-32 cipher is one of the Zodiac Killer’s short, still-unsolved coded messages, believed to contain a clue to the location of a bomb or crime scene.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Z-32 cipher
Target entity description: The Z-32 cipher is one of the Zodiac Killer’s short, still-unsolved coded messages, believed to contain a clue to the location of a bomb or crime scene.
  • A. Z-13 cipher
    The Z-13 cipher is one of the Zodiac Killer’s shortest and most infamous unsolved cryptograms, consisting of just 13 characters that have fueled decades of speculation about its hidden message.
  • B. Serpent cipher
    Serpent cipher is a symmetric-key block cipher and former AES finalist known for its strong security margin and conservative design based on a substitution–permutation network structure.
  • C. Tunny cipher
    The Tunny cipher was a high-level German teleprinter encryption system used during World War II for strategic communications, whose interception and decryption at Bletchley Park significantly aided Allied codebreaking efforts.
  • D. Lucifer cipher
    The Lucifer cipher is an early block cipher developed at IBM by Horst Feistel that served as a foundational design precursor to the Data Encryption Standard (DES).
  • E. Spritz cipher
    Spritz cipher is a modern stream cipher and hash function designed by Ronald Rivest and Jacob Schuldt as a more secure and flexible successor to RC4.
  • 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_69d822ee4f408190b6ac3b2fa434f0df completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded5e4e4448190a8796573bc6d1069 completed April 15, 2026, 12:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe72ac9f6481908f7b4f63a11fe16c completed May 8, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe74c098548190bf97cfae53868671 completed May 8, 2026, 11:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe75759f1081909c3bb3b642cdc0c2 completed May 8, 2026, 11:44 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:55 a.m.