Triple

T5293204
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award E119791 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Ed McBain
Ed McBain was the pen name of American author Evan Hunter, best known for his influential 87th Precinct police procedural novels and his significant impact on modern crime fiction.
E507826 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: Ed McBain | Statement: [Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award, hasRecipient, Ed McBain]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ed McBain
Context triple: [Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award, hasRecipient, Ed McBain]
  • A. Harry Bosch
    Harry Bosch is a hard-boiled Los Angeles homicide detective and the central protagonist of Michael Connelly’s long-running crime novel series.
  • B. Detective Jack Graham
    Detective Jack Graham is a supporting character in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 thriller "Shadow of a Doubt," serving as a government investigator who quietly probes the suspicions surrounding Uncle Charlie.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Virgil Tibbs
    Virgil Tibbs is a skilled and composed Black homicide detective who famously investigates a murder in a racially tense Southern town in the film "In the Heat of the Night."
  • E. Eliot Ness
    Eliot Ness was an American Prohibition agent and law enforcement official best known for leading "The Untouchables" in the fight against Al Capone’s criminal empire in Chicago.
  • 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: Ed McBain
Triple: [Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award, hasRecipient, Ed McBain]
Generated description
Ed McBain was the pen name of American author Evan Hunter, best known for his influential 87th Precinct police procedural novels and his significant impact on modern crime fiction.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ed McBain
Target entity description: Ed McBain was the pen name of American author Evan Hunter, best known for his influential 87th Precinct police procedural novels and his significant impact on modern crime fiction.
  • A. Harry Bosch
    Harry Bosch is a hard-boiled Los Angeles homicide detective and the central protagonist of Michael Connelly’s long-running crime novel series.
  • B. Detective Jack Graham
    Detective Jack Graham is a supporting character in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 thriller "Shadow of a Doubt," serving as a government investigator who quietly probes the suspicions surrounding Uncle Charlie.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Virgil Tibbs
    Virgil Tibbs is a skilled and composed Black homicide detective who famously investigates a murder in a racially tense Southern town in the film "In the Heat of the Night."
  • E. Eliot Ness
    Eliot Ness was an American Prohibition agent and law enforcement official best known for leading "The Untouchables" in the fight against Al Capone’s criminal empire in Chicago.
  • 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_69bd446f22b88190b6a47fb91c68a3e7 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd84eec0c081908da5fad1b1fff9d6 completed March 20, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf06f3c7508190be98e08cef130a4d completed March 21, 2026, 9 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf07f9ef048190a5f726c1e603ccc9 completed March 21, 2026, 9:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf08a498288190bbb8cb0f407ef896 completed March 21, 2026, 9:07 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:52 p.m.