Triple

T4567679
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Drowning Pool E121948 entity
Predicate authorOfSourceWork P2353 FINISHED
Object Ross Macdonald
Ross Macdonald was an American-Canadian crime writer best known for his hardboiled Lew Archer detective novels, which helped elevate the psychological depth and literary status of mid-20th-century mystery fiction.
E454326 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: Ross Macdonald | Statement: [The Drowning Pool, authorOfSourceWork, Ross Macdonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ross Macdonald
Context triple: [The Drowning Pool, authorOfSourceWork, Ross Macdonald]
  • A. Robert B. Parker
    Robert B. Parker was an American crime fiction author best known for his long-running Spenser detective novel series.
  • B. Raymond Chandler
    Raymond Chandler was an influential American-British novelist and screenwriter best known for his hardboiled detective fiction featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe.
  • C. James M. Cain
    James M. Cain was an American novelist and journalist best known for his hardboiled crime fiction, including classics like "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and "Double Indemnity."
  • D. Dashiell Hammett
    Dashiell Hammett was an American author and former detective best known for pioneering the hard-boiled crime genre with works such as "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man."
  • E. Erle Stanley Gardner
    Erle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer-turned-author best known for his prolific series of Perry Mason detective novels, which became a cornerstone of 20th-century crime fiction.
  • 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: Ross Macdonald
Triple: [The Drowning Pool, authorOfSourceWork, Ross Macdonald]
Generated description
Ross Macdonald was an American-Canadian crime writer best known for his hardboiled Lew Archer detective novels, which helped elevate the psychological depth and literary status of mid-20th-century mystery fiction.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ross Macdonald
Target entity description: Ross Macdonald was an American-Canadian crime writer best known for his hardboiled Lew Archer detective novels, which helped elevate the psychological depth and literary status of mid-20th-century mystery fiction.
  • A. Robert B. Parker
    Robert B. Parker was an American crime fiction author best known for his long-running Spenser detective novel series.
  • B. Raymond Chandler
    Raymond Chandler was an influential American-British novelist and screenwriter best known for his hardboiled detective fiction featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe.
  • C. James M. Cain
    James M. Cain was an American novelist and journalist best known for his hardboiled crime fiction, including classics like "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and "Double Indemnity."
  • D. Dashiell Hammett
    Dashiell Hammett was an American author and former detective best known for pioneering the hard-boiled crime genre with works such as "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man."
  • E. Erle Stanley Gardner
    Erle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer-turned-author best known for his prolific series of Perry Mason detective novels, which became a cornerstone of 20th-century crime fiction.
  • 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_69bd463f156881908a99aca69c5721ac completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd589faccc8190ac0354644099810d completed March 20, 2026, 2:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdd3bf54448190a7e65cee1a5c48e3 completed March 20, 2026, 11:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdd9d583248190ab8e3d5b9b34bd0f completed March 20, 2026, 11:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdda765f18819088cacca8fae77084 completed March 20, 2026, 11:38 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:09 p.m.