Triple

T12185262
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine E290316 entity
Predicate hasNotableContributor P10455 FINISHED
Object Ed McBain E507826 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Ed McBain | Statement: [Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, hasNotableContributor, Ed McBain]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ed McBain
Context triple: [Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, hasNotableContributor, Ed McBain]
  • A. Ed McBain chosen
    Ed McBain was the pen name of American author Evan Hunter, best known for his influential 87th Precinct police procedural novels and his significant impact on modern crime fiction.
  • B. Harry Bosch
    Harry Bosch is a hard-boiled Los Angeles homicide detective and the central protagonist of Michael Connelly’s long-running crime novel series.
  • C. Detective Jack Graham
    Detective Jack Graham is a supporting character in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 thriller "Shadow of a Doubt," serving as a government investigator who quietly probes the suspicions surrounding Uncle Charlie.
  • D. Jack McCoy
    Jack McCoy is a fictional New York City prosecutor known for his aggressive, morally complex approach to trying cases in the long-running television series "Law & Order."
  • E. Harry Gittes
    Harry Gittes is a film producer best known for his work on notable American movies such as "About Schmidt."
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d6ab64de5881908d56eb7a75c6cc69 elicitation completed
NER batch_69d915ffe644819085f4eb64802fe349 ner completed
NED1 batch_69f5f6aecb0881909084f3ff2a9e52ea ned_source_triple completed
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:50 p.m.