Triple

T4365908
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dial M for Murder E98770 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Mark Halliday
Mark Halliday is a mystery writer and the lover of Margot Wendice who becomes entangled in her husband's murder plot in the play and film "Dial M for Murder."
E433562 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: Mark Halliday | Statement: [Dial M for Murder, character, Mark Halliday]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mark Halliday
Context triple: [Dial M for Murder, character, Mark Halliday]
  • A. Ed Bullins
    Ed Bullins was an influential American playwright whose politically charged, experimental works made him a central voice in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • B. Philip Baker Hall
    Philip Baker Hall was an American character actor renowned for his intense, understated performances in films like "Magnolia," "Boogie Nights," and "Hard Eight," as well as memorable television roles including his iconic turn as library cop Lt. Bookman on "Seinfeld."
  • C. John Hilliard
    John Hilliard is a British conceptual artist and photographer known for his experimental works that explore the nature of photographic representation and perception.
  • D. Philip Bailey
    Philip Bailey is an American R&B, soul, and gospel singer best known as a lead vocalist of Earth, Wind & Fire, renowned for his distinctive falsetto voice.
  • E. Horace Maynard
    Horace Maynard was a 19th-century American politician and diplomat from Tennessee who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and as U.S. Postmaster General.
  • 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: Mark Halliday
Triple: [Dial M for Murder, character, Mark Halliday]
Generated description
Mark Halliday is a mystery writer and the lover of Margot Wendice who becomes entangled in her husband's murder plot in the play and film "Dial M for Murder."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mark Halliday
Target entity description: Mark Halliday is a mystery writer and the lover of Margot Wendice who becomes entangled in her husband's murder plot in the play and film "Dial M for Murder."
  • A. Ed Bullins
    Ed Bullins was an influential American playwright whose politically charged, experimental works made him a central voice in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • B. Philip Baker Hall
    Philip Baker Hall was an American character actor renowned for his intense, understated performances in films like "Magnolia," "Boogie Nights," and "Hard Eight," as well as memorable television roles including his iconic turn as library cop Lt. Bookman on "Seinfeld."
  • C. John Hilliard
    John Hilliard is a British conceptual artist and photographer known for his experimental works that explore the nature of photographic representation and perception.
  • D. Philip Bailey
    Philip Bailey is an American R&B, soul, and gospel singer best known as a lead vocalist of Earth, Wind & Fire, renowned for his distinctive falsetto voice.
  • E. Horace Maynard
    Horace Maynard was a 19th-century American politician and diplomat from Tennessee who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and as U.S. Postmaster General.
  • 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_69b3454c772081908e20173e379e8ebe completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b35200263081909bb326a4d7a8db99 completed March 12, 2026, 11:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5dbcbbd1881908eb9f0ea6b2fe16b completed March 14, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5dcf36dfc8190847925dbed92c059 completed March 14, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5ddad45b8819082ac7a3a9c5f2f07 completed March 14, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:17 p.m.