Triple
T4434978
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Strangers on a Train |
E95626
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Guy Haines
Guy Haines is the ambitious tennis player and central protagonist of Patricia Highsmith’s psychological thriller "Strangers on a Train," whose fateful encounter with a stranger leads to a deadly murder pact.
|
E440198
|
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: Guy Haines | Statement: [Strangers on a Train, mainCharacter, Guy Haines]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Guy Haines Context triple: [Strangers on a Train, mainCharacter, Guy Haines]
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A.
Philip Marlow
Philip Marlow is the fictional, psychologically complex mystery writer and patient at the center of Dennis Potter’s television serial "The Singing Detective," where his hallucinations and noir fantasies intertwine with his real-life illness.
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B.
Sam Spade
Sam Spade is a hard-boiled private detective and the iconic protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," widely regarded as a defining figure in American noir fiction.
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C.
J. J. Gittes
J. J. Gittes is the cynical yet principled private investigator portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the classic neo-noir film "Chinatown."
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D.
Jack Crawford
Jack Crawford is a seasoned FBI agent and head of the Behavioral Science Unit who mentors Clarice Starling in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels and their film adaptations.
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E.
Jack Weston
Jack Weston was an American character actor known for his comic and dramatic roles in film, television, and theater from the 1950s through the 1980s.
- 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: Guy Haines Triple: [Strangers on a Train, mainCharacter, Guy Haines]
Generated description
Guy Haines is the ambitious tennis player and central protagonist of Patricia Highsmith’s psychological thriller "Strangers on a Train," whose fateful encounter with a stranger leads to a deadly murder pact.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Guy Haines Target entity description: Guy Haines is the ambitious tennis player and central protagonist of Patricia Highsmith’s psychological thriller "Strangers on a Train," whose fateful encounter with a stranger leads to a deadly murder pact.
-
A.
Philip Marlow
Philip Marlow is the fictional, psychologically complex mystery writer and patient at the center of Dennis Potter’s television serial "The Singing Detective," where his hallucinations and noir fantasies intertwine with his real-life illness.
-
B.
Sam Spade
Sam Spade is a hard-boiled private detective and the iconic protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," widely regarded as a defining figure in American noir fiction.
-
C.
J. J. Gittes
J. J. Gittes is the cynical yet principled private investigator portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the classic neo-noir film "Chinatown."
-
D.
Jack Crawford
Jack Crawford is a seasoned FBI agent and head of the Behavioral Science Unit who mentors Clarice Starling in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels and their film adaptations.
-
E.
Jack Weston
Jack Weston was an American character actor known for his comic and dramatic roles in film, television, and theater from the 1950s through the 1980s.
- 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_69b3453ea2b48190a26f154b3b8fece5 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69b35588e99881908fea7b71a33e2bb6 |
completed | March 13, 2026, 12:08 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b6137378dc8190900c8fda2693c4da |
completed | March 15, 2026, 2:03 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b61439a86c8190849c5af718ddc647 |
completed | March 15, 2026, 2:06 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b614d6106c81908a601f540622f934 |
completed | March 15, 2026, 2:09 a.m. |
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:31 p.m.