Triple
T8447263
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Houdini: The Man Who Walked Through Walls |
E199706
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Lindsay Gresham |
E199706
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: William Lindsay Gresham | Statement: [Houdini: The Man Who Walked Through Walls, author, William Lindsay Gresham]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lindsay Gresham Context triple: [Houdini: The Man Who Walked Through Walls, author, William Lindsay Gresham]
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A.
William Lindsay Gresham
chosen
William Lindsay Gresham was an American novelist and nonfiction writer best known for his dark 1946 carnival noir novel "Nightmare Alley," which has been adapted into multiple films.
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B.
Walter Quinton Gresham
Walter Quinton Gresham was a 19th-century American statesman, jurist, and cabinet member who served as both U.S. Postmaster General and Secretary of State.
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C.
John May
John May was a Chicago gangster and mechanic for Bugs Moran’s North Side Gang who was killed in the 1929 Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.
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D.
John McClelland
John McClelland was a Canadian publisher best known as the co-founder and driving force behind the influential publishing house McClelland and Stewart.
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E.
Hugh Baird
Hugh Baird was a Scottish civil engineer best known for his major role in early 19th-century canal design and construction.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca83170f9081909cd98f55614c6476 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cbe44480ec8190b32443a53cd4f943 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 3:12 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cea82225148190b9dd190655114c8a |
completed | April 2, 2026, 5:32 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:09 p.m.