Triple
T17340086
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | It Had to Be Murder |
E421043
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object | Cornell Woolrich |
E421044
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Cornell Woolrich | Statement: [It Had to Be Murder, author, Cornell Woolrich]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cornell Woolrich Context triple: [It Had to Be Murder, author, Cornell Woolrich]
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A.
Cornell Woolrich
chosen
Cornell Woolrich was an American crime and suspense writer, often called the "father of noir fiction," whose dark, psychologically driven stories inspired numerous classic films.
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B.
Curt Siodmak
Curt Siodmak was a German-American novelist and screenwriter best known for his influential work in horror and science fiction films, including classic Universal monster movies.
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C.
James M. Cain
James M. Cain was an American novelist and journalist best known for his hardboiled crime fiction, including classics like "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and "Double Indemnity."
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D.
Philip Yordan
Philip Yordan was an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on numerous mid-20th-century Hollywood films, often associated with Westerns and film noir.
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E.
Evan Hunter
Evan Hunter was an American author and screenwriter best known for his crime novels under the pen name Ed McBain and for writing the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s film adaptation of "The Birds."
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d889d3adc881909319f1edb8d2a956 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e43a14ec90819098db2ac0d58a53e1 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 2:12 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a018c588a7081909ab108cb4adfedfe |
completed | May 11, 2026, 7:59 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:44 a.m.