Triple

T22840665
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Staircase E566068 entity
Predicate narrativeFocus P31 FINISHED
Object murder trial of Michael Peterson — NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: murder trial of Michael Peterson | Statement: [The Staircase, narrativeFocus, murder trial of Michael Peterson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: murder trial of Michael Peterson
Context triple: [The Staircase, narrativeFocus, murder trial of Michael Peterson]
  • A. A Woman Scorned: The Shocking Real Story of Scott Peterson and the Murder of Laci Peterson
    "A Woman Scorned: The Shocking Real Story of Scott Peterson and the Murder of Laci Peterson" is a true-crime book that examines the high-profile 2002 disappearance and murder of Laci Peterson and the subsequent investigation and trial of her husband, Scott Peterson.
  • B. This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial
    This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial is a true-crime book by Australian author Helen Garner that examines the trial of a father accused of murdering his three sons by driving them into a dam, blending courtroom reportage with reflections on grief, justice, and doubt.
  • C. murder trial of John Bodkin Adams
    The murder trial of John Bodkin Adams was a highly publicized 1957 British legal case in which the physician was accused of killing elderly patients under his care, raising major ethical and legal questions about medical practice and end-of-life care.
  • D. An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story
    An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story is a documentary film chronicling Michael Morton’s wrongful conviction for his wife’s murder and his eventual exoneration through DNA evidence, highlighting flaws in the U.S. criminal justice system.
  • E. Murder of Laura Foster
    The Murder of Laura Foster refers to the 1866 killing of a young woman in North Carolina, a notorious case that inspired the American folk ballad and legend of Tom Dooley.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: murder trial of Michael Peterson
Target entity description: The murder trial of Michael Peterson was a highly publicized North Carolina case in which the novelist was accused of killing his wife Kathleen, later becoming the subject of the true-crime documentary series "The Staircase."
  • A. A Woman Scorned: The Shocking Real Story of Scott Peterson and the Murder of Laci Peterson
    "A Woman Scorned: The Shocking Real Story of Scott Peterson and the Murder of Laci Peterson" is a true-crime book that examines the high-profile 2002 disappearance and murder of Laci Peterson and the subsequent investigation and trial of her husband, Scott Peterson.
  • B. This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial
    This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial is a true-crime book by Australian author Helen Garner that examines the trial of a father accused of murdering his three sons by driving them into a dam, blending courtroom reportage with reflections on grief, justice, and doubt.
  • C. murder trial of John Bodkin Adams
    The murder trial of John Bodkin Adams was a highly publicized 1957 British legal case in which the physician was accused of killing elderly patients under his care, raising major ethical and legal questions about medical practice and end-of-life care.
  • D. An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story
    An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story is a documentary film chronicling Michael Morton’s wrongful conviction for his wife’s murder and his eventual exoneration through DNA evidence, highlighting flaws in the U.S. criminal justice system.
  • E. Murder of Laura Foster
    The Murder of Laura Foster refers to the 1866 killing of a young woman in North Carolina, a notorious case that inspired the American folk ballad and legend of Tom Dooley.
  • F. None of above. chosen

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_69e245869e188190a196584f36e682da completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f17e83fa48819084568264ef45c833 completed April 29, 2026, 3:44 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:35 p.m.