Triple

T22840659
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Staircase E566068 entity
Predicate portrays P264 FINISHED
Object Clayton Peterson
Clayton Peterson is the son of novelist Michael Peterson, whose family became widely known through the true-crime documentary series "The Staircase" about his mother's death and his father's subsequent murder trial.
E1557694 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: Clayton Peterson | Statement: [The Staircase, portrays, Clayton Peterson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clayton Peterson
Context triple: [The Staircase, portrays, Clayton Peterson]
  • A. Jesse West
    Jesse West is an American hip-hop producer and rapper known for his work in the 1990s East Coast rap scene, including collaborations with prominent artists and contributions to early Bad Boy Records projects.
  • B. Gary Starkweather
    Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
  • C. Wuornos
    Wuornos is the surname of Aileen Wuornos, an American serial killer whose crimes in Florida in the late 1980s and early 1990s received widespread media attention.
  • D. Charles Starkweather
    Charles Starkweather was a 1950s American spree killer whose notorious murder rampage with his teenage girlfriend inspired numerous films and fictional characters.
  • E. Walter H. Paddock
    Walter H. Paddock was a cinematographer known for his work on the acclaimed nature documentary film "The Vanishing Prairie."
  • 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: Clayton Peterson
Triple: [The Staircase, portrays, Clayton Peterson]
Generated description
Clayton Peterson is the son of novelist Michael Peterson, whose family became widely known through the true-crime documentary series "The Staircase" about his mother's death and his father's subsequent murder trial.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clayton Peterson
Target entity description: Clayton Peterson is the son of novelist Michael Peterson, whose family became widely known through the true-crime documentary series "The Staircase" about his mother's death and his father's subsequent murder trial.
  • A. Jesse West
    Jesse West is an American hip-hop producer and rapper known for his work in the 1990s East Coast rap scene, including collaborations with prominent artists and contributions to early Bad Boy Records projects.
  • B. Gary Starkweather
    Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
  • C. Wuornos
    Wuornos is the surname of Aileen Wuornos, an American serial killer whose crimes in Florida in the late 1980s and early 1990s received widespread media attention.
  • D. Charles Starkweather
    Charles Starkweather was a 1950s American spree killer whose notorious murder rampage with his teenage girlfriend inspired numerous films and fictional characters.
  • E. Walter H. Paddock
    Walter H. Paddock was a cinematographer known for his work on the acclaimed nature documentary film "The Vanishing Prairie."
  • 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_69e245869e188190a196584f36e682da completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f17e83fa48819084568264ef45c833 completed April 29, 2026, 3:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0ba7b565388190bb70602834ae5622 completed May 18, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0ba8666f608190b512aa4c8442f6c1 completed May 19, 2026, 12:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0baa4decf881909774facad2cae93d completed May 19, 2026, 12:09 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:35 p.m.