Triple

T14877486
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Zodiac Killer E349904 entity
Predicate notableVictim P870 FINISHED
Object Cecelia Shepard
Cecelia Shepard was a young college student who became one of the most infamous victims in the 1969 Lake Berryessa attack attributed to the Zodiac Killer.
 E1149815 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: Cecelia Shepard | Statement: [Zodiac Killer, notableVictim, Cecelia Shepard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cecelia Shepard
Context triple: [Zodiac Killer, notableVictim, Cecelia Shepard]
  • A. Cecelia Mullen
    Cecelia Mullen is a sibling of U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr., making her part of the family connected to the famous Irish rock musician.
  • B. Cecilia Hart
    Cecilia Hart was an American actress known for her work on stage and screen and for her longtime marriage to actor James Earl Jones.
  • C. Charmian Carr
    Charmian Carr was an American actress best known for playing Liesl von Trapp in the classic film musical "The Sound of Music."
  • D. Celia Brayfield
    Celia Brayfield is a British novelist, journalist, and academic known for her contemporary fiction and work on creative writing.
  • E. Celia Ryder
    Celia Ryder is a character in Evelyn Waugh's novel "Brideshead Revisited," known as Charles Ryder's socially ambitious and somewhat conventional wife.
  • 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: Cecelia Shepard
Triple: [Zodiac Killer, notableVictim, Cecelia Shepard]
Generated description
Cecelia Shepard was a young college student who became one of the most infamous victims in the 1969 Lake Berryessa attack attributed to the Zodiac Killer.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cecelia Shepard
Target entity description: Cecelia Shepard was a young college student who became one of the most infamous victims in the 1969 Lake Berryessa attack attributed to the Zodiac Killer.
  • A. Cecelia Mullen
    Cecelia Mullen is a sibling of U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr., making her part of the family connected to the famous Irish rock musician.
  • B. Cecilia Hart
    Cecilia Hart was an American actress known for her work on stage and screen and for her longtime marriage to actor James Earl Jones.
  • C. Charmian Carr
    Charmian Carr was an American actress best known for playing Liesl von Trapp in the classic film musical "The Sound of Music."
  • D. Celia Brayfield
    Celia Brayfield is a British novelist, journalist, and academic known for her contemporary fiction and work on creative writing.
  • E. Celia Ryder
    Celia Ryder is a character in Evelyn Waugh's novel "Brideshead Revisited," known as Charles Ryder's socially ambitious and somewhat conventional wife.
  • 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_69d822ee4f408190b6ac3b2fa434f0df completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded5e4e4448190a8796573bc6d1069 completed April 15, 2026, 12:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fef885b07c8190af5e33303af9fbea completed May 9, 2026, 9:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fefa54397c81909c9bfb8c0553b3d1 completed May 9, 2026, 9:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fefb04d7e4819084ac10e05dccb3e3 completed May 9, 2026, 9:14 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:55 a.m.