Triple

T2198507
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Killer Inside Me (novel) E50433 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object Jim Thompson
Jim Thompson was an American crime novelist renowned for his dark, psychologically driven noir fiction and influential contributions to mid-20th-century pulp literature.
 E242671 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: Jim Thompson | Statement: [The Killer Inside Me (novel), author, Jim Thompson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jim Thompson
Context triple: [The Killer Inside Me (novel), author, Jim Thompson]
  • A. John T. Ford
    John T. Ford was a 19th-century American theater manager and impresario best known for owning and operating Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
  • B. Victor Strand
    Victor Strand is a charismatic, morally ambiguous con man and survivor from the television series "Fear the Walking Dead."
  • C. Russell Metty
    Russell Metty was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on classic Hollywood films, including his Oscar-winning photography for "Spartacus" (1960).
  • D. Ward Bond
    Ward Bond was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in classic Hollywood films and the television series "Wagon Train."
  • E. William Langer
    William Langer was a prominent American politician who served as both governor of North Dakota and a U.S. senator in the mid-20th century.
  • 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: Jim Thompson
Triple: [The Killer Inside Me (novel), author, Jim Thompson]
Generated description
Jim Thompson was an American crime novelist renowned for his dark, psychologically driven noir fiction and influential contributions to mid-20th-century pulp literature.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jim Thompson
Target entity description: Jim Thompson was an American crime novelist renowned for his dark, psychologically driven noir fiction and influential contributions to mid-20th-century pulp literature.
  • A. John T. Ford
    John T. Ford was a 19th-century American theater manager and impresario best known for owning and operating Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
  • B. Victor Strand
    Victor Strand is a charismatic, morally ambiguous con man and survivor from the television series "Fear the Walking Dead."
  • C. Russell Metty
    Russell Metty was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on classic Hollywood films, including his Oscar-winning photography for "Spartacus" (1960).
  • D. Ward Bond
    Ward Bond was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in classic Hollywood films and the television series "Wagon Train."
  • E. William Langer
    William Langer was a prominent American politician who served as both governor of North Dakota and a U.S. senator in the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69a88b044ab48190add007487680f009 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbf7b65cc8190bcc5a5c52b90f33b completed March 7, 2026, 6:02 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae5db9b0208190a63a75c86ea9dcff completed March 9, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae5e866d108190b39853172d1ed1a6 completed March 9, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae5edfe80481908c3304c917c9065b completed March 9, 2026, 5:47 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:46 p.m.