Triple

T3971273
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Murder on the Orient Express E92339 entity
Predicate containsCharacter P5716 FINISHED
Object Hector MacQueen
Hector MacQueen is a nervous and talkative American secretary who becomes one of the key suspects in Agatha Christie's detective novel "Murder on the Orient Express."
E404549 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: Hector MacQueen | Statement: [Murder on the Orient Express, containsCharacter, Hector MacQueen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hector MacQueen
Context triple: [Murder on the Orient Express, containsCharacter, Hector MacQueen]
  • A. Roy McFarland
    Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
  • B. Ken Morrow
    Ken Morrow is an American former defenseman best known for winning gold with the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and then capturing four consecutive Stanley Cups with the New York Islanders.
  • C. Ian McLellan Hunter
    Ian McLellan Hunter was a British-born American screenwriter best known for his work in mid-20th-century Hollywood, including his fronting for blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo on the Oscar-winning script for "Roman Holiday."
  • D. Bren MacGuff
    Bren MacGuff is the sharp-tongued, supportive stepmother character from the 2007 film "Juno," portrayed by Allison Janney.
  • E. Charles MacDonald
    Charles MacDonald was a distinguished American World War II fighter ace and U.S. Army Air Forces officer known for his combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
  • 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: Hector MacQueen
Triple: [Murder on the Orient Express, containsCharacter, Hector MacQueen]
Generated description
Hector MacQueen is a nervous and talkative American secretary who becomes one of the key suspects in Agatha Christie's detective novel "Murder on the Orient Express."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hector MacQueen
Target entity description: Hector MacQueen is a nervous and talkative American secretary who becomes one of the key suspects in Agatha Christie's detective novel "Murder on the Orient Express."
  • A. Roy McFarland
    Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
  • B. Ken Morrow
    Ken Morrow is an American former defenseman best known for winning gold with the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and then capturing four consecutive Stanley Cups with the New York Islanders.
  • C. Ian McLellan Hunter
    Ian McLellan Hunter was a British-born American screenwriter best known for his work in mid-20th-century Hollywood, including his fronting for blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo on the Oscar-winning script for "Roman Holiday."
  • D. Bren MacGuff
    Bren MacGuff is the sharp-tongued, supportive stepmother character from the 2007 film "Juno," portrayed by Allison Janney.
  • E. Charles MacDonald
    Charles MacDonald was a distinguished American World War II fighter ace and U.S. Army Air Forces officer known for his combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
  • 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_69aed96624188190ac8c45bb57ab72b5 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aef995d27881908b24a5b2ef57455f completed March 9, 2026, 4:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5400b75d081909b8e4840b15d19f1 completed March 14, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b540eb53788190aa281ee38edc1729 completed March 14, 2026, 11:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b541a55cb081909ec1f87a7553b6f2 completed March 14, 2026, 11:08 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:32 p.m.