Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Case of the Velvet Claws E137610 entity
Predicate coverArtist P184 FINISHED
Object Charles L. McCann
Charles L. McCann was an artist known for illustrating book covers, including work on early Perry Mason mystery novels.
E590455 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: Charles L. McCann | Statement: [The Case of the Velvet Claws, coverArtist, Charles L. McCann]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles L. McCann
Context triple: [The Case of the Velvet Claws, coverArtist, Charles L. McCann]
  • A. Charles Tillot
    Charles Tillot was a 19th-century French painter associated with the Impressionist movement who participated in the early Impressionist exhibitions in Paris.
  • B. William F. Readdy
    William F. Readdy is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy test pilot who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and later held senior leadership roles within NASA.
  • C. Harold McCord
    Harold McCord was a film editor active during the silent film era, known for his work on early American cinema.
  • D. Jesse E. Moorland
    Jesse E. Moorland was an African American minister, educator, and philanthropist whose extensive collection of books and documents on Black history helped form the foundation of Howard University’s Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.
  • E. Charles Alvin Beckwith
    Charles Alvin Beckwith was a highly decorated U.S. Army Special Forces officer best known for creating and leading the elite counterterrorism unit Delta Force.
  • 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: Charles L. McCann
Triple: [The Case of the Velvet Claws, coverArtist, Charles L. McCann]
Generated description
Charles L. McCann was an artist known for illustrating book covers, including work on early Perry Mason mystery novels.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles L. McCann
Target entity description: Charles L. McCann was an artist known for illustrating book covers, including work on early Perry Mason mystery novels.
  • A. Charles Tillot
    Charles Tillot was a 19th-century French painter associated with the Impressionist movement who participated in the early Impressionist exhibitions in Paris.
  • B. William F. Readdy
    William F. Readdy is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy test pilot who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and later held senior leadership roles within NASA.
  • C. Harold McCord
    Harold McCord was a film editor active during the silent film era, known for his work on early American cinema.
  • D. Jesse E. Moorland
    Jesse E. Moorland was an African American minister, educator, and philanthropist whose extensive collection of books and documents on Black history helped form the foundation of Howard University’s Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.
  • E. Charles Alvin Beckwith
    Charles Alvin Beckwith was a highly decorated U.S. Army Special Forces officer best known for creating and leading the elite counterterrorism unit Delta Force.
  • 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_69c008a68c508190a8d78245c865960e completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c05d647ae48190a1db07b4f4a06e67 completed March 22, 2026, 9:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6384fece08190ba78bf08d7ee5d4a completed March 27, 2026, 7:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c63b1b0df4819089caf2b9bb965da2 completed March 27, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c63b84585481909cd6d221c4dac72f completed March 27, 2026, 8:10 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:17 p.m.