Triple

T8501166
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Infamous E201218 entity
Predicate portrays P264 FINISHED
Object Richard Hickock
Richard Hickock was one of the two American ex-convicts who brutally murdered the Clutter family in 1959, a crime later chronicled in Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
E739126 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: Richard Hickock | Statement: [Infamous, portrays, Richard Hickock]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Hickock
Context triple: [Infamous, portrays, Richard Hickock]
  • A. Lee Meredith
    Lee Meredith is an American actress and model best known for her comedic roles in 1960s–1970s film and television, including appearances in works by Mel Brooks.
  • B. Herb Clutter
    Herb Clutter is the prosperous, devout Kansas farmer and family man whose 1959 murder is central to Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
  • C. Gary Starkweather
    Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
  • D. William Holmes
    William Holmes was a film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the 1941 biographical war film "Sergeant York."
  • E. Ma Barker
    Ma Barker was a notorious American crime matriarch of the early 20th century, associated with the Barker–Karpis gang and widely (though controversially) portrayed as the mastermind behind her sons’ criminal activities.
  • 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: Richard Hickock
Triple: [Infamous, portrays, Richard Hickock]
Generated description
Richard Hickock was one of the two American ex-convicts who brutally murdered the Clutter family in 1959, a crime later chronicled in Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Hickock
Target entity description: Richard Hickock was one of the two American ex-convicts who brutally murdered the Clutter family in 1959, a crime later chronicled in Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
  • A. Lee Meredith
    Lee Meredith is an American actress and model best known for her comedic roles in 1960s–1970s film and television, including appearances in works by Mel Brooks.
  • B. Herb Clutter
    Herb Clutter is the prosperous, devout Kansas farmer and family man whose 1959 murder is central to Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
  • C. Gary Starkweather
    Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
  • D. William Holmes
    William Holmes was a film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the 1941 biographical war film "Sergeant York."
  • E. Ma Barker
    Ma Barker was a notorious American crime matriarch of the early 20th century, associated with the Barker–Karpis gang and widely (though controversially) portrayed as the mastermind behind her sons’ criminal activities.
  • 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_69ca831fe47c8190b5c57b456d2aefa0 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe59ad65c8190a2b8e6d22269853a completed March 31, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce4e1da7388190855ccd2e4292fd26 completed April 2, 2026, 11:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce4ff88ff48190a5641635187a9e4f completed April 2, 2026, 11:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce50fd3150819097562093bee78a6d completed April 2, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:14 p.m.