Triple
T16248581
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Evan Hunter |
E394438
|
entity |
| Predicate | alsoKnownAs |
P39
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Ed McBain |
E507826
|
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: Ed McBain | Statement: [Evan Hunter, alsoKnownAs, Ed McBain]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ed McBain Context triple: [Evan Hunter, alsoKnownAs, Ed McBain]
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A.
Ed McBain
chosen
Ed McBain was the pen name of American author Evan Hunter, best known for his influential 87th Precinct police procedural novels and his significant impact on modern crime fiction.
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B.
Harry Block
Harry Block is the neurotic, self-absorbed writer protagonist of Woody Allen’s film "Deconstructing Harry," whose chaotic personal life fuels his fiction.
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C.
Inspector Harry Callahan
Inspector Harry Callahan is a tough, no-nonsense San Francisco police detective famously portrayed by Clint Eastwood in the Dirty Harry film series.
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D.
Harry Bosch
Harry Bosch is a hard-boiled Los Angeles homicide detective and the central protagonist of Michael Connelly’s long-running crime novel series.
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E.
Detective Jack Graham
Detective Jack Graham is a supporting character in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 thriller "Shadow of a Doubt," serving as a government investigator who quietly probes the suspicions surrounding Uncle Charlie.
- 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_69d87f2171208190951025e526947816 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e24594f23c8190bd59fcb2585cb5e3 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a00aae0f87c819085ebc7d475ebe8ba |
completed | May 10, 2026, 3:57 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:04 a.m.