Triple

T18589586
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ross Macdonald E454326 entity
Predicate notableCharacter P1481 FINISHED
Object Lew Archer
Lew Archer is a fictional private detective and the protagonist of Ross Macdonald’s acclaimed hardboiled crime novels set largely in Southern California.
E1332624 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: Lew Archer | Statement: [Ross Macdonald, notableCharacter, Lew Archer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lew Archer
Context triple: [Ross Macdonald, notableCharacter, Lew Archer]
  • A. Philip Marlowe
    Philip Marlowe is a hardboiled, wisecracking private detective created by Raymond Chandler and featured in a series of classic American crime novels and film noir adaptations.
  • B. Philip Marlow
    Philip Marlow is the fictional, psychologically complex mystery writer and patient at the center of Dennis Potter’s television serial "The Singing Detective," where his hallucinations and noir fantasies intertwine with his real-life illness.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Ed McBain
    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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Lew Archer
Triple: [Ross Macdonald, notableCharacter, Lew Archer]
Generated description
Lew Archer is a fictional private detective and the protagonist of Ross Macdonald’s acclaimed hardboiled crime novels set largely in Southern California.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lew Archer
Target entity description: Lew Archer is a fictional private detective and the protagonist of Ross Macdonald’s acclaimed hardboiled crime novels set largely in Southern California.
  • A. Philip Marlowe
    Philip Marlowe is a hardboiled, wisecracking private detective created by Raymond Chandler and featured in a series of classic American crime novels and film noir adaptations.
  • B. Philip Marlow
    Philip Marlow is the fictional, psychologically complex mystery writer and patient at the center of Dennis Potter’s television serial "The Singing Detective," where his hallucinations and noir fantasies intertwine with his real-life illness.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Ed McBain
    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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69d8d38ae7e081908a98df1251842402 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e545b4a2a0819098047ee81278bd9d completed April 19, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a04f89678bc8190b8bc79694d75fd4b completed May 13, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a04fed4e1c4819088f99be7ee8ecd08 completed May 13, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a04ff9d97108190a34c4a8e347df711 completed May 13, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:44 a.m.