Triple

T12008346
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David W. Zucker E285841 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Hot Zone
The Hot Zone is a nonfiction thriller by Richard Preston that chronicles the origins and terrifying spread of deadly filoviruses like Ebola and Marburg.
E250097 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 Hot Zone | Statement: [David W. Zucker, notableWork, The Hot Zone]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Hot Zone
Context triple: [David W. Zucker, notableWork, The Hot Zone]
  • A. The Hot Zone
    The Hot Zone is a nonfiction thriller by Richard Preston that chronicles the origins and terrifying outbreaks of deadly filoviruses like Ebola and Marburg.
  • B. The Andromeda Strain
    The Andromeda Strain is a 1969 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton about a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism and the scientific team racing to contain it.
  • C. Zone One
    Zone One is a post-apocalyptic zombie novel by Colson Whitehead that blends literary fiction with horror to explore survival, memory, and urban decay in a ravaged New York City.
  • D. La Contagion sacrée
    La Contagion sacrée is an 18th-century philosophical critique of religion by Baron d'Holbach that attacks superstition and the social and moral harms of organized faith.
  • E. The Strain
    The Strain is a horror drama franchise—best known as a TV series—about a vampiric plague overtaking New York City, co-created by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro.
  • 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 Hot Zone
Triple: [David W. Zucker, notableWork, The Hot Zone]
Generated description
The Hot Zone is a nonfiction thriller by Richard Preston that chronicles the origins and terrifying spread of deadly filoviruses like Ebola and Marburg.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Hot Zone
Target entity description: The Hot Zone is a nonfiction thriller by Richard Preston that chronicles the origins and terrifying spread of deadly filoviruses like Ebola and Marburg.
  • A. The Hot Zone chosen
    The Hot Zone is a nonfiction thriller by Richard Preston that chronicles the origins and terrifying outbreaks of deadly filoviruses like Ebola and Marburg.
  • B. The Andromeda Strain
    The Andromeda Strain is a 1969 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton about a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism and the scientific team racing to contain it.
  • C. Zone One
    Zone One is a post-apocalyptic zombie novel by Colson Whitehead that blends literary fiction with horror to explore survival, memory, and urban decay in a ravaged New York City.
  • D. La Contagion sacrée
    La Contagion sacrée is an 18th-century philosophical critique of religion by Baron d'Holbach that attacks superstition and the social and moral harms of organized faith.
  • E. The Strain
    The Strain is a horror drama franchise—best known as a TV series—about a vampiric plague overtaking New York City, co-created by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d6ab45a368819084fce08bf0dc3705 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d903d61a4c81909e6cb6500b61df94 completed April 10, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f48b1570208190a08c64e028f67d81 completed May 1, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f48fc6da4c81908442f18cb4a65b27 completed May 1, 2026, 11:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f495cc50908190aab4f8ca64c66ef3 completed May 1, 2026, noon
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.