Triple

T4452672
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tom Dooley E97649 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object Murder of Laura Foster
The Murder of Laura Foster refers to the 1866 killing of a young woman in North Carolina, a notorious case that inspired the American folk ballad and legend of Tom Dooley.
E439737 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: Murder of Laura Foster | Statement: [Tom Dooley, basedOn, Murder of Laura Foster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Murder of Laura Foster
Context triple: [Tom Dooley, basedOn, Murder of Laura Foster]
  • A. Thaw–White murder case
    The Thaw–White murder case was a sensational early 20th-century American scandal in which millionaire Harry K. Thaw fatally shot famed architect Stanford White over White’s relationship with actress Evelyn Nesbit, captivating the public and press with its mix of sex, jealousy, and high society.
  • B. Hudson family murders
    The Hudson family murders refer to the 2008 killings of Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother, and nephew in Chicago, a high-profile case that drew national attention due to the actress-singer’s fame and the crime’s brutality.
  • C. Clutter family murders
    The Clutter family murders were a notorious 1959 quadruple homicide in Holcomb, Kansas, that became widely known through Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
  • D. Moors murders
    The Moors murders were a series of notorious child killings carried out in 1960s England by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, which became one of the most infamous criminal cases in British history.
  • E. The China Lake Murders
    The China Lake Murders is a 1990 American made-for-television crime thriller film centered on a small-town sheriff investigating a series of murders near a desert naval weapons base.
  • 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: Murder of Laura Foster
Triple: [Tom Dooley, basedOn, Murder of Laura Foster]
Generated description
The Murder of Laura Foster refers to the 1866 killing of a young woman in North Carolina, a notorious case that inspired the American folk ballad and legend of Tom Dooley.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Murder of Laura Foster
Target entity description: The Murder of Laura Foster refers to the 1866 killing of a young woman in North Carolina, a notorious case that inspired the American folk ballad and legend of Tom Dooley.
  • A. Thaw–White murder case
    The Thaw–White murder case was a sensational early 20th-century American scandal in which millionaire Harry K. Thaw fatally shot famed architect Stanford White over White’s relationship with actress Evelyn Nesbit, captivating the public and press with its mix of sex, jealousy, and high society.
  • B. Hudson family murders
    The Hudson family murders refer to the 2008 killings of Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother, and nephew in Chicago, a high-profile case that drew national attention due to the actress-singer’s fame and the crime’s brutality.
  • C. Clutter family murders
    The Clutter family murders were a notorious 1959 quadruple homicide in Holcomb, Kansas, that became widely known through Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
  • D. Moors murders
    The Moors murders were a series of notorious child killings carried out in 1960s England by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, which became one of the most infamous criminal cases in British history.
  • E. The China Lake Murders
    The China Lake Murders is a 1990 American made-for-television crime thriller film centered on a small-town sheriff investigating a series of murders near a desert naval weapons base.
  • 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_69b3454777808190b78aa9047ba1f018 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b355f49dc081908727af81b886c08d completed March 13, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b6138ea77881908381e9ea8ad2b7fe completed March 15, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b61465bb4081908a638a908c31c489 completed March 15, 2026, 2:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b6156db4a081909054f7db172315e9 completed March 15, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:33 p.m.