Triple

T16456921
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Usual Suspects E399706 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Verbal Kint
Verbal Kint is a seemingly meek, talkative con artist whose unreliable testimony and hidden identity drive the twist-filled narrative of the crime thriller "The Usual Suspects."
E1214999 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: Verbal Kint | Statement: [The Usual Suspects, mainCharacter, Verbal Kint]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Verbal Kint
Context triple: [The Usual Suspects, mainCharacter, Verbal Kint]
  • A. Dr. Richard Kimble
    Dr. Richard Kimble is the wrongfully accused surgeon protagonist of "The Fugitive," best known from Harrison Ford’s portrayal in the 1993 film adaptation.
  • B. Francis Dolarhyde
    Francis Dolarhyde is the fictional serial killer known as "The Tooth Fairy" in Thomas Harris's novel *Red Dragon* and its screen adaptations.
  • C. Hannibal Lecter
    Hannibal Lecter is a brilliant but psychopathic cannibalistic serial killer and psychiatrist, best known as the chilling antagonist in Thomas Harris’s novels and their film adaptations.
  • D. Anton Chigurh
    Anton Chigurh is the cold, relentless hitman and primary antagonist in Cormac McCarthy’s novel and the Coen brothers’ film "No Country for Old Men," known for his emotionless demeanor and coin-toss method of deciding victims’ fates.
  • E. Guy Haines
    Guy Haines is the ambitious tennis player and central protagonist of Patricia Highsmith’s psychological thriller "Strangers on a Train," whose fateful encounter with a stranger leads to a deadly murder pact.
  • 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: Verbal Kint
Triple: [The Usual Suspects, mainCharacter, Verbal Kint]
Generated description
Verbal Kint is a seemingly meek, talkative con artist whose unreliable testimony and hidden identity drive the twist-filled narrative of the crime thriller "The Usual Suspects."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Verbal Kint
Target entity description: Verbal Kint is a seemingly meek, talkative con artist whose unreliable testimony and hidden identity drive the twist-filled narrative of the crime thriller "The Usual Suspects."
  • A. Dr. Richard Kimble
    Dr. Richard Kimble is the wrongfully accused surgeon protagonist of "The Fugitive," best known from Harrison Ford’s portrayal in the 1993 film adaptation.
  • B. Francis Dolarhyde
    Francis Dolarhyde is the fictional serial killer known as "The Tooth Fairy" in Thomas Harris's novel *Red Dragon* and its screen adaptations.
  • C. Hannibal Lecter
    Hannibal Lecter is a brilliant but psychopathic cannibalistic serial killer and psychiatrist, best known as the chilling antagonist in Thomas Harris’s novels and their film adaptations.
  • D. Anton Chigurh
    Anton Chigurh is the cold, relentless hitman and primary antagonist in Cormac McCarthy’s novel and the Coen brothers’ film "No Country for Old Men," known for his emotionless demeanor and coin-toss method of deciding victims’ fates.
  • E. Guy Haines
    Guy Haines is the ambitious tennis player and central protagonist of Patricia Highsmith’s psychological thriller "Strangers on a Train," whose fateful encounter with a stranger leads to a deadly murder pact.
  • 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_69d87f2dac988190b74d6e185fa88ba4 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e32d7dfd188190b03e9b4151a4d3d8 completed April 18, 2026, 7:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a004f5015a881908447b64b699feb1a completed May 10, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0051491fc88190ab4098f1177d2715 completed May 10, 2026, 9:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0051c61ea0819090d588df72c1041b completed May 10, 2026, 9:37 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:10 a.m.