Triple

T3266417
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Grann E68538 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes is a nonfiction collection of investigative essays by journalist David Grann that explores bizarre crimes, obsessions, and mysteries around the world.
 E341802 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: The Devil and Sherlock Holmes | Statement: [David Grann, notableWork, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
Context triple: [David Grann, notableWork, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes]
  • A. Holmes and Holmes
    Holmes and Holmes is a Canadian home renovation reality TV series featuring contractor Mike Holmes working alongside his son to repair and improve houses.
  • B. Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
    "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" is a 1943 mystery film in the long-running Sherlock Holmes series, starring Basil Rathbone as the famed detective in a World War II–era espionage story loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s "The Adventure of the Dancing Men."
  • C. The Valley of Fear
    The Valley of Fear is a Sherlock Holmes detective novel by Arthur Conan Doyle that centers on a mysterious murder linked to a secret society and a dark past in the American coalfields.
  • D. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final collection of Sherlock Holmes detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring some of the darker and more experimental tales in the series.
  • E. The Return of Sherlock Holmes
    The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle that marks the celebrated comeback of his iconic sleuth after an apparent death at Reichenbach Falls.
  • 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: The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
Triple: [David Grann, notableWork, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes]
Generated description
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes is a nonfiction collection of investigative essays by journalist David Grann that explores bizarre crimes, obsessions, and mysteries around the world.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
Target entity description: The Devil and Sherlock Holmes is a nonfiction collection of investigative essays by journalist David Grann that explores bizarre crimes, obsessions, and mysteries around the world.
  • A. Holmes and Holmes
    Holmes and Holmes is a Canadian home renovation reality TV series featuring contractor Mike Holmes working alongside his son to repair and improve houses.
  • B. Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
    "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" is a 1943 mystery film in the long-running Sherlock Holmes series, starring Basil Rathbone as the famed detective in a World War II–era espionage story loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s "The Adventure of the Dancing Men."
  • C. The Valley of Fear
    The Valley of Fear is a Sherlock Holmes detective novel by Arthur Conan Doyle that centers on a mysterious murder linked to a secret society and a dark past in the American coalfields.
  • D. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final collection of Sherlock Holmes detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring some of the darker and more experimental tales in the series.
  • E. The Return of Sherlock Holmes
    The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle that marks the celebrated comeback of his iconic sleuth after an apparent death at Reichenbach Falls.
  • 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_69ad8590444081909e8107a8aeef3a23 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adafce46dc8190a157e4f5012baed5 completed March 8, 2026, 5:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b28eed68c08190994376bfbfeae949 completed March 12, 2026, 10:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2900805d08190afbda5ee5e984b71 completed March 12, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2ac4c52d48190a87b1e535c2e8a37 completed March 12, 2026, 12:06 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:09 p.m.