Triple
T15393185
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | To Catch a Killer |
E368099
|
entity |
| Predicate | character |
P662
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John Wayne Gacy |
E1155421
|
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: John Wayne Gacy | Statement: [To Catch a Killer, character, John Wayne Gacy]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Wayne Gacy Context triple: [To Catch a Killer, character, John Wayne Gacy]
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A.
John Wayne Gacy
chosen
John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer and sex offender notorious for murdering numerous young men and boys in the 1970s, often while performing in public as a clown.
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B.
Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy was an infamous American serial killer active in the 1970s, known for his charm, intelligence, and brutal murders of numerous young women across multiple states.
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C.
Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Dahmer was an American serial killer and sex offender notorious for murdering and dismembering 17 young men and boys between 1978 and 1991.
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D.
Dennis Rader
Dennis Rader is an American serial killer, known as the BTK Killer, who murdered ten people in Kansas between 1974 and 1991 while taunting authorities with letters.
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E.
Charles Starkweather
Charles Starkweather was a 1950s American spree killer whose notorious murder rampage with his teenage girlfriend inspired numerous films and fictional characters.
- 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_69d85a1551a08190ba2caea7cd51c639 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e03e7838b48190862b43c6c8620692 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 1:42 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ff219a285481909eef3ec6e523573c |
completed | May 9, 2026, 11:59 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:19 a.m.