Triple

T1928355
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Maltese Falcon (novel) E40883 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett was an American author and former detective best known for pioneering the hard-boiled crime genre with works such as "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man."
 E215289 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: Dashiell Hammett | Statement: [The Maltese Falcon (novel), author, Dashiell Hammett]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Dashiell Hammett
Context triple: [The Maltese Falcon (novel), author, Dashiell Hammett]
  • A. Raymond Chandler
    Raymond Chandler was an influential American-British novelist and screenwriter best known for his hardboiled detective fiction featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe.
  • B. Mickey Spillane
    Mickey Spillane was an American crime novelist best known for his hard-boiled Mike Hammer detective series.
  • C. Erle Stanley Gardner
    Erle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer-turned-author best known for his prolific series of Perry Mason detective novels, which became a cornerstone of 20th-century crime fiction.
  • D. James Ellroy
    James Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer renowned for his dark, intricately plotted L.A. Quartet novels and his stylized, staccato prose.
  • E. Edgar Wallace
    Edgar Wallace was a prolific British writer best known for his crime novels and for contributing to the original story that inspired the 1933 film "King Kong."
  • 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: Dashiell Hammett
Triple: [The Maltese Falcon (novel), author, Dashiell Hammett]
Generated description
Dashiell Hammett was an American author and former detective best known for pioneering the hard-boiled crime genre with works such as "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Dashiell Hammett
Target entity description: Dashiell Hammett was an American author and former detective best known for pioneering the hard-boiled crime genre with works such as "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man."
  • A. Raymond Chandler
    Raymond Chandler was an influential American-British novelist and screenwriter best known for his hardboiled detective fiction featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe.
  • B. Mickey Spillane
    Mickey Spillane was an American crime novelist best known for his hard-boiled Mike Hammer detective series.
  • C. Erle Stanley Gardner
    Erle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer-turned-author best known for his prolific series of Perry Mason detective novels, which became a cornerstone of 20th-century crime fiction.
  • D. James Ellroy
    James Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer renowned for his dark, intricately plotted L.A. Quartet novels and his stylized, staccato prose.
  • E. Edgar Wallace
    Edgar Wallace was a prolific British writer best known for his crime novels and for contributing to the original story that inspired the 1933 film "King Kong."
  • 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_69a8864711648190b07bed24ed76258e completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb26593308190835863b760449d04 completed March 7, 2026, 5:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adf3ed31448190a2e5d088ab5886b8 completed March 8, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adf48412b08190b6ad0f3abf42a081 completed March 8, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adf4f7c908819089ccdc881af10da9 completed March 8, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:35 p.m.