Triple

T21740382
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William C. McGann E536640 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Case of the Black Cat — NE NERFINISHED

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: The Case of the Black Cat | Statement: [William C. McGann, notableWork, The Case of the Black Cat]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Case of the Black Cat
Context triple: [William C. McGann, notableWork, The Case of the Black Cat]
  • A. The Case of the Black Cat chosen
    The Case of the Black Cat is a 1934 American mystery film, part of the Perry Mason series, directed by William C. McGann and produced by Bryan Foy.
  • B. The Black Cat
    "The Black Cat" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores themes of guilt, madness, and the supernatural through a narrator’s violent obsession with his pet.
  • C. The Black Cat
    The Black Cat is a 1934 American horror film, loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, known for pairing Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in a stylish tale of psychological terror and the occult.
  • D. The Case of the Grinning Cat
    The Case of the Grinning Cat is a 1958 West German crime film directed by Josef von Báky, centered on a mysterious series of murders linked to a sinister criminal organization.
  • E. Murder of a Cat
    Murder of a Cat is a 2014 dark comedy–mystery film about an eccentric man investigating the suspicious death of his beloved pet, uncovering quirky small-town secrets in the process.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (2 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_69e0c46df5448190b4322127ffc4c690 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f01a714c208190b96efe23ed3bf0db completed April 28, 2026, 2:24 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:49 p.m.