Triple

T3022850
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Spiral Staircase E82504 entity
Predicate basedOnAuthor P2806 FINISHED
Object Ethel Lina White
Ethel Lina White was a British crime novelist best known for her suspenseful mystery thrillers, several of which, including the source for the film "The Spiral Staircase," were adapted for cinema.
 E320823 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: Ethel Lina White | Statement: [The Spiral Staircase, basedOnAuthor, Ethel Lina White]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ethel Lina White
Context triple: [The Spiral Staircase, basedOnAuthor, Ethel Lina White]
  • A. Elinor Miriam White
    Elinor Miriam White was an American teacher and the longtime wife and early literary influence of poet Robert Frost.
  • B. Elinor Mead
    Elinor Mead was an American artist and intellectual known as the wife and close collaborator of novelist and critic William Dean Howells.
  • C. Ethel Lilian Voynich
    Ethel Lilian Voynich was an Anglo-Irish novelist, musician, and revolutionary best known for her popular 1897 novel "The Gadfly."
  • D. Beatrice Page
    Beatrice Page is the ambitious, aging Broadway actress at the center of the 1953 film "Forever Female," whose struggle with youth, career, and romance drives the story.
  • E. Muriel Whiting
    Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
  • 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: Ethel Lina White
Triple: [The Spiral Staircase, basedOnAuthor, Ethel Lina White]
Generated description
Ethel Lina White was a British crime novelist best known for her suspenseful mystery thrillers, several of which, including the source for the film "The Spiral Staircase," were adapted for cinema.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ethel Lina White
Target entity description: Ethel Lina White was a British crime novelist best known for her suspenseful mystery thrillers, several of which, including the source for the film "The Spiral Staircase," were adapted for cinema.
  • A. Elinor Miriam White
    Elinor Miriam White was an American teacher and the longtime wife and early literary influence of poet Robert Frost.
  • B. Elinor Mead
    Elinor Mead was an American artist and intellectual known as the wife and close collaborator of novelist and critic William Dean Howells.
  • C. Ethel Lilian Voynich
    Ethel Lilian Voynich was an Anglo-Irish novelist, musician, and revolutionary best known for her popular 1897 novel "The Gadfly."
  • D. Beatrice Page
    Beatrice Page is the ambitious, aging Broadway actress at the center of the 1953 film "Forever Female," whose struggle with youth, career, and romance drives the story.
  • E. Muriel Whiting
    Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
  • 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_69ad8b1fb34081908c1b873e2b7273e1 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9a963034819093d96566e9b0cea9 completed March 8, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1deafdcb881908174331d5bfc6349 completed March 11, 2026, 9:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1df36fc448190856cda08f83feded completed March 11, 2026, 9:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1dfae6bb48190828820eae70e2f84 completed March 11, 2026, 9:33 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3 p.m.