Triple

T23196376
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject My Dark Places E579878 entity
Predicate investigationPartner P120802 FINISHED
Object Bill Stoner
Bill Stoner is a former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department detective known for assisting author James Ellroy in re-investigating his mother's unsolved 1958 murder, as chronicled in the memoir "My Dark Places."
E1575339 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Bill Stoner | Statement: [My Dark Places, investigationPartner, Bill Stoner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Stoner
Context triple: [My Dark Places, investigationPartner, Bill Stoner]
  • A. Rob Stoner
    Rob Stoner is an American musician and bassist best known for his work with Bob Dylan during the Rolling Thunder Revue era.
  • B. Bob Stone
    Bob Stone is a central white plantation heir whose fraught relationship with the Black protagonist drives the racial and emotional conflict in Jean Toomer’s short story "Blood-Burning Moon."
  • C. Bob Stone
    Bob Stone is a fictional character from the action-comedy film "Central Intelligence," portrayed as a formerly bullied outsider who becomes a highly skilled and muscular CIA agent.
  • D. Bob Stone
    Bob Stone is an American songwriter best known for writing Cher’s 1971 hit single “Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves.”
  • E. Fred Stone
    Fred Stone was an American stage and film actor, dancer, and vaudevillian best known for his comedic roles in early 20th-century Broadway productions.
  • 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: Bill Stoner
Triple: [My Dark Places, investigationPartner, Bill Stoner]
Generated description
Bill Stoner is a former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department detective known for assisting author James Ellroy in re-investigating his mother's unsolved 1958 murder, as chronicled in the memoir "My Dark Places."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Stoner
Target entity description: Bill Stoner is a former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department detective known for assisting author James Ellroy in re-investigating his mother's unsolved 1958 murder, as chronicled in the memoir "My Dark Places."
  • A. Rob Stoner
    Rob Stoner is an American musician and bassist best known for his work with Bob Dylan during the Rolling Thunder Revue era.
  • B. Bob Stone
    Bob Stone is a central white plantation heir whose fraught relationship with the Black protagonist drives the racial and emotional conflict in Jean Toomer’s short story "Blood-Burning Moon."
  • C. Bob Stone
    Bob Stone is a fictional character from the action-comedy film "Central Intelligence," portrayed as a formerly bullied outsider who becomes a highly skilled and muscular CIA agent.
  • D. Bob Stone
    Bob Stone is an American songwriter best known for writing Cher’s 1971 hit single “Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves.”
  • E. Fred Stone
    Fred Stone was an American stage and film actor, dancer, and vaudevillian best known for his comedic roles in early 20th-century Broadway productions.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: investigationPartner
Context triple: [My Dark Places, investigationPartner, Bill Stoner]
  • A. partnerInInvestigationWith chosen
    Indicates that two entities are collaborating as partners in the same investigation.
  • B. investigatedBy
    Indicates that an entity is the subject of an investigation carried out by another entity.
  • C. helpsInvestigate
    Indicates that one entity assists another entity in carrying out an investigation or inquiry.
  • D. partnerInDiscovery
    Indicates that two or more entities collaborated as partners in making a particular discovery.
  • E. investigatedFor
    Indicates that an entity is the subject of an investigation concerning a suspected involvement in another entity (typically a crime, incident, or wrongdoing).
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69e24600eed08190bd7e5295653a1503 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18fdc0b8081909242fdc5cb1da517 completed April 29, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c30bebfe48190944c0933ea100b11 completed May 19, 2026, 9:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c330135cc8190b5a0e512bda6277d completed May 19, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c375dd5a4819097a80ae43a1c4442 completed May 19, 2026, 10:11 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69ef8a041c0081909afb670d17a5aaba completed April 27, 2026, 4:08 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:06 p.m.