Triple

T16248621
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Evan Hunter E394438 entity
Predicate wrote P2831 FINISHED
Object The Mugger
"The Mugger" is a crime novel by Evan Hunter (writing as Ed McBain) that forms part of his influential 87th Precinct police procedural series.
E1201845 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: The Mugger | Statement: [Evan Hunter, wrote, The Mugger]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Mugger
Context triple: [Evan Hunter, wrote, The Mugger]
  • A. The Crocodile
    The Crocodile is the political nickname of Emmerson Mnangagwa, the long-time Zimbabwean politician and current president known for his shrewd and hardline reputation.
  • B. The Crocodile
    The Crocodile was the famous nickname of French tennis champion and fashion entrepreneur René Lacoste, symbolizing his tenacity on court and later inspiring the iconic Lacoste logo.
  • C. The Crocodile
    The Crocodile is a famed Seattle music club in Belltown known for hosting influential rock and alternative acts since the early 1990s.
  • D. Die Groot Krokodil
    Die Groot Krokodil is the Afrikaans nickname of P. W. Botha, the hardline former prime minister and state president of apartheid-era South Africa.
  • E. The Eel
    The Eel is a 1997 Japanese drama film directed by Shōhei Imamura that follows an ex-convict seeking redemption in a small coastal town, and it shared the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
  • 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: The Mugger
Triple: [Evan Hunter, wrote, The Mugger]
Generated description
"The Mugger" is a crime novel by Evan Hunter (writing as Ed McBain) that forms part of his influential 87th Precinct police procedural series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Mugger
Target entity description: "The Mugger" is a crime novel by Evan Hunter (writing as Ed McBain) that forms part of his influential 87th Precinct police procedural series.
  • A. The Crocodile
    The Crocodile is the political nickname of Emmerson Mnangagwa, the long-time Zimbabwean politician and current president known for his shrewd and hardline reputation.
  • B. The Crocodile
    The Crocodile was the famous nickname of French tennis champion and fashion entrepreneur René Lacoste, symbolizing his tenacity on court and later inspiring the iconic Lacoste logo.
  • C. The Crocodile
    The Crocodile is a famed Seattle music club in Belltown known for hosting influential rock and alternative acts since the early 1990s.
  • D. Die Groot Krokodil
    Die Groot Krokodil is the Afrikaans nickname of P. W. Botha, the hardline former prime minister and state president of apartheid-era South Africa.
  • E. The Eel
    The Eel is a 1997 Japanese drama film directed by Shōhei Imamura that follows an ex-convict seeking redemption in a small coastal town, and it shared the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
  • 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_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_6a000ee3bbc48190a56ce2807a9510f0 completed May 10, 2026, 4:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a000f9aecec819087cecb1edad6b710 completed May 10, 2026, 4:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0010462ba881909666051b2fc38d43 completed May 10, 2026, 4:57 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:04 a.m.