Triple

T10964357
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harry Houdini E259056 entity
Predicate authored P80 FINISHED
Object The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin
The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin is a controversial 1908 book by magician Harry Houdini that critically challenges the legacy and originality of famed French illusionist Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin.
E897304 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: The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin | Statement: [Harry Houdini, authored, The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin
Context triple: [Harry Houdini, authored, The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin]
  • A. Mesmerism
    Mesmerism is a historical practice based on Franz Mesmer’s theories of “animal magnetism,” involving trance-like states and hypnotic techniques that influenced later concepts of hypnosis and spiritual healing.
  • B. The Invisible Circus
    The Invisible Circus is a 2001 British drama film adapted from Jennifer Egan’s novel, following a young woman’s journey across Europe in the 1970s to uncover the truth about her radical older sister’s mysterious death.
  • C. The Invisible Circus
    The Invisible Circus is Jennifer Egan’s debut novel, a coming-of-age story that follows a young woman retracing her radical older sister’s footsteps across 1970s Europe to uncover the truth about her mysterious death.
  • D. La Clef des Grands Mystères
    La Clef des Grands Mystères is a 19th-century occult treatise by Éliphas Lévi that explores ceremonial magic, esoteric philosophy, and the symbolic foundations of Western mysticism.
  • E. The Book of Illusions
    The Book of Illusions is a novel by Paul Auster that follows a grieving academic obsessed with a vanished silent film star, blending mystery, metafiction, and meditations on identity and loss.
  • 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: The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin
Triple: [Harry Houdini, authored, The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin]
Generated description
The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin is a controversial 1908 book by magician Harry Houdini that critically challenges the legacy and originality of famed French illusionist Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin
Target entity description: The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin is a controversial 1908 book by magician Harry Houdini that critically challenges the legacy and originality of famed French illusionist Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin.
  • A. Mesmerism
    Mesmerism is a historical practice based on Franz Mesmer’s theories of “animal magnetism,” involving trance-like states and hypnotic techniques that influenced later concepts of hypnosis and spiritual healing.
  • B. The Invisible Circus
    The Invisible Circus is a 2001 British drama film adapted from Jennifer Egan’s novel, following a young woman’s journey across Europe in the 1970s to uncover the truth about her radical older sister’s mysterious death.
  • C. The Invisible Circus
    The Invisible Circus is Jennifer Egan’s debut novel, a coming-of-age story that follows a young woman retracing her radical older sister’s footsteps across 1970s Europe to uncover the truth about her mysterious death.
  • D. La Clef des Grands Mystères
    La Clef des Grands Mystères is a 19th-century occult treatise by Éliphas Lévi that explores ceremonial magic, esoteric philosophy, and the symbolic foundations of Western mysticism.
  • E. The Book of Illusions
    The Book of Illusions is a novel by Paul Auster that follows a grieving academic obsessed with a vanished silent film star, blending mystery, metafiction, and meditations on identity and loss.
  • 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_69d6aa88500c819097d7032ca578e74f completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d77147f7108190a3b68ba1dd1c130e completed April 9, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e2d77277108190979f1b1edeac8964 completed April 18, 2026, 12:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e2ff1ffb8c8190ba97f3c2e3c8c601 completed April 18, 2026, 3:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3261cc4f48190ba0e5645f37cd4b5 completed April 18, 2026, 6:35 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:23 p.m.