Triple

T20663587
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walter Mosley E507823 entity
Predicate notableSeries P3199 FINISHED
Object Easy Rawlins series
The Easy Rawlins series is a collection of hardboiled detective novels by Walter Mosley featuring Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, a Black private investigator navigating crime and racial tensions in mid-20th-century Los Angeles.
 E1444491 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: Easy Rawlins series | Statement: [Walter Mosley, notableSeries, Easy Rawlins series]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Easy Rawlins series
Context triple: [Walter Mosley, notableSeries, Easy Rawlins series]
  • A. Detective D.D. Warren series
    The Detective D.D. Warren series is a popular set of crime thrillers by Lisa Gardner featuring a tough Boston homicide detective who investigates complex, often dark and psychologically driven cases.
  • B. Harry Bosch series
    The Harry Bosch series is a collection of crime novels by Michael Connelly featuring LAPD detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch as he investigates complex, often morally ambiguous cases in Los Angeles.
  • C. Women's Murder Club series
    The Women's Murder Club series is a popular crime thriller book franchise co-created by James Patterson that follows a group of women professionals in San Francisco who team up to solve complex murder cases.
  • D. Heat of the Night
    "Heat of the Night" is a rock song by Bryan Adams, best known as the lead single from his 1987 album *Into the Fire*.
  • E. Devil in a Blue Dress
    Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1995 neo-noir mystery film starring Denzel Washington as private investigator Easy Rawlins, adapted from Walter Mosley’s novel of the same name.
  • 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: Easy Rawlins series
Triple: [Walter Mosley, notableSeries, Easy Rawlins series]
Generated description
The Easy Rawlins series is a collection of hardboiled detective novels by Walter Mosley featuring Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, a Black private investigator navigating crime and racial tensions in mid-20th-century Los Angeles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Easy Rawlins series
Target entity description: The Easy Rawlins series is a collection of hardboiled detective novels by Walter Mosley featuring Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, a Black private investigator navigating crime and racial tensions in mid-20th-century Los Angeles.
  • A. Detective D.D. Warren series
    The Detective D.D. Warren series is a popular set of crime thrillers by Lisa Gardner featuring a tough Boston homicide detective who investigates complex, often dark and psychologically driven cases.
  • B. Harry Bosch series
    The Harry Bosch series is a collection of crime novels by Michael Connelly featuring LAPD detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch as he investigates complex, often morally ambiguous cases in Los Angeles.
  • C. Women's Murder Club series
    The Women's Murder Club series is a popular crime thriller book franchise co-created by James Patterson that follows a group of women professionals in San Francisco who team up to solve complex murder cases.
  • D. Heat of the Night
    "Heat of the Night" is a rock song by Bryan Adams, best known as the lead single from his 1987 album *Into the Fire*.
  • E. Devil in a Blue Dress
    Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1995 neo-noir mystery film starring Denzel Washington as private investigator Easy Rawlins, adapted from Walter Mosley’s novel of the same name.
  • 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_69e0b4c059bc81908ea762cd73ea4424 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6b2f4872481908858eb88ce89dd47 completed April 20, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08cd5d0da481909eebd69b8b314503 completed May 16, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08d175206c8190b119bb1a2d06462f completed May 16, 2026, 8:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08d293523c8190aaa01c6c73c9afd5 completed May 16, 2026, 8:24 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:44 a.m.