Triple

T4567723
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Boston Strangler E121949 entity
Predicate basedOnAuthor P2806 FINISHED
Object Gerold Frank
Gerold Frank was an American author and journalist best known for his pioneering works in true crime and biography, including the definitive account of the Boston Strangler case.
E464999 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: Gerold Frank | Statement: [The Boston Strangler, basedOnAuthor, Gerold Frank]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gerold Frank
Context triple: [The Boston Strangler, basedOnAuthor, Gerold Frank]
  • A. Hans Frisak
    Hans Frisak was a mountaineer known for being among the first to successfully climb Iceland’s highest peak, Hvannadalshnúkur.
  • B. Erich Rothacker
    Erich Rothacker was a German philosopher and cultural theorist known for his work in philosophical anthropology and the humanities, and for supervising Jürgen Habermas’s doctoral studies.
  • C. Carl Braun
    Carl Braun was a prominent American professional basketball player of the 1940s and 1950s, best known as a star guard for the New York Knicks and later a Hall of Famer.
  • D. John Heydler
    John Heydler was an American baseball executive who served as president of the National League in the early 20th century.
  • E. Karl Arnold
    Karl Arnold was a prominent German politician who served as Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia and played a key role in post-World War II reconstruction and democratic development.
  • 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: Gerold Frank
Triple: [The Boston Strangler, basedOnAuthor, Gerold Frank]
Generated description
Gerold Frank was an American author and journalist best known for his pioneering works in true crime and biography, including the definitive account of the Boston Strangler case.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gerold Frank
Target entity description: Gerold Frank was an American author and journalist best known for his pioneering works in true crime and biography, including the definitive account of the Boston Strangler case.
  • A. Hans Frisak
    Hans Frisak was a mountaineer known for being among the first to successfully climb Iceland’s highest peak, Hvannadalshnúkur.
  • B. Erich Rothacker
    Erich Rothacker was a German philosopher and cultural theorist known for his work in philosophical anthropology and the humanities, and for supervising Jürgen Habermas’s doctoral studies.
  • C. Carl Braun
    Carl Braun was a prominent American professional basketball player of the 1940s and 1950s, best known as a star guard for the New York Knicks and later a Hall of Famer.
  • D. John Heydler
    John Heydler was an American baseball executive who served as president of the National League in the early 20th century.
  • E. Karl Arnold
    Karl Arnold was a prominent German politician who served as Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia and played a key role in post-World War II reconstruction and democratic development.
  • 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_69be101bf95881908242672ab60e873f completed March 21, 2026, 3:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be1571333881908355cdbc979a4fee completed March 21, 2026, 3:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be15c3e4648190a8c29306261ad5c7 completed March 21, 2026, 3:51 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:09 p.m.