Triple

T3551227
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brian Dennehy E75114 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object To Catch a Killer
To Catch a Killer is a 1992 television crime drama film that chronicles the investigation and capture of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
E368099 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: To Catch a Killer | Statement: [Brian Dennehy, notableWork, To Catch a Killer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: To Catch a Killer
Context triple: [Brian Dennehy, notableWork, To Catch a Killer]
  • A. A Blueprint for Murder
    A Blueprint for Murder is a 1953 American film noir thriller in which Gary Merrill stars in a tense story of suspected poisoning and inheritance-driven murder.
  • B. The Child Killer
    The Child Killer is the nickname of Scottish serial murderer Robert Black, notorious for abducting, sexually assaulting, and killing young girls across the UK during the 1970s and 1980s.
  • C. The Talk Show Murders
    The Talk Show Murders is a mystery novel by comedian and television pioneer Steve Allen that blends show-business satire with a talk-show-themed whodunit plot.
  • D. Jane: A Murder
    "Jane: A Murder" is a hybrid work of poetry, memoir, and true crime in which Maggie Nelson investigates the life and unsolved murder of her aunt Jane.
  • E. The Capital Punisher
    The Capital Punisher is the nickname of Frank Howard, a towering power-hitting Major League Baseball slugger best known for his time with the Washington Senators in the 1960s and early 1970s.
  • 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: To Catch a Killer
Triple: [Brian Dennehy, notableWork, To Catch a Killer]
Generated description
To Catch a Killer is a 1992 television crime drama film that chronicles the investigation and capture of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: To Catch a Killer
Target entity description: To Catch a Killer is a 1992 television crime drama film that chronicles the investigation and capture of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
  • A. A Blueprint for Murder
    A Blueprint for Murder is a 1953 American film noir thriller in which Gary Merrill stars in a tense story of suspected poisoning and inheritance-driven murder.
  • B. The Child Killer
    The Child Killer is the nickname of Scottish serial murderer Robert Black, notorious for abducting, sexually assaulting, and killing young girls across the UK during the 1970s and 1980s.
  • C. The Talk Show Murders
    The Talk Show Murders is a mystery novel by comedian and television pioneer Steve Allen that blends show-business satire with a talk-show-themed whodunit plot.
  • D. Jane: A Murder
    "Jane: A Murder" is a hybrid work of poetry, memoir, and true crime in which Maggie Nelson investigates the life and unsolved murder of her aunt Jane.
  • E. The Capital Punisher
    The Capital Punisher is the nickname of Frank Howard, a towering power-hitting Major League Baseball slugger best known for his time with the Washington Senators in the 1960s and early 1970s.
  • 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_69ad85d33c6c819081d5ac1df13b5680 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbfd52f44819088e07139fe987e2a completed March 8, 2026, 6:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b38bec437c8190b35ca77dc19d441d completed March 13, 2026, 4 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b38c5d9ec8819095132a06c1add128 completed March 13, 2026, 4:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b38cc3f330819096df64a81d4a5f58 completed March 13, 2026, 4:04 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:20 p.m.