Triple

T1753988
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David M. Buss E38509 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill
The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill is a psychological and evolutionary analysis of human homicidal behavior that explores why the human mind may be naturally predisposed to kill under certain circumstances.
E196087 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 Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill | Statement: [David M. Buss, notableWork, The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill
Context triple: [David M. Buss, notableWork, The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill]
  • A. The Savage Mind
    The Savage Mind is a seminal anthropological work by Claude Lévi-Strauss that explores the structures of human thought through the comparison of so-called "primitive" and "civilized" societies.
  • B. The Child Killer
    The Child Killer is the nickname of Scottish serial murderer Robert Black, notorious for abducting, sexually assaulting, and killing young girls across the UK during the 1970s and 1980s.
  • C. The Art of Cruelty
    The Art of Cruelty is a critical work of cultural theory in which Maggie Nelson examines representations of violence and suffering in art, film, and literature, questioning their ethical and aesthetic implications.
  • D. How the Mind Works
    How the Mind Works is a popular science book by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker that explores human thought and behavior through the lenses of evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience.
  • E. Mindhunters
    Mindhunters is a 2004 psychological thriller film about FBI profiler trainees trapped on a remote island with a serial killer who begins murdering them one by one.
  • 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 Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill
Triple: [David M. Buss, notableWork, The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill]
Generated description
The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill is a psychological and evolutionary analysis of human homicidal behavior that explores why the human mind may be naturally predisposed to kill under certain circumstances.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill
Target entity description: The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill is a psychological and evolutionary analysis of human homicidal behavior that explores why the human mind may be naturally predisposed to kill under certain circumstances.
  • A. The Savage Mind
    The Savage Mind is a seminal anthropological work by Claude Lévi-Strauss that explores the structures of human thought through the comparison of so-called "primitive" and "civilized" societies.
  • B. The Child Killer
    The Child Killer is the nickname of Scottish serial murderer Robert Black, notorious for abducting, sexually assaulting, and killing young girls across the UK during the 1970s and 1980s.
  • C. The Art of Cruelty
    The Art of Cruelty is a critical work of cultural theory in which Maggie Nelson examines representations of violence and suffering in art, film, and literature, questioning their ethical and aesthetic implications.
  • D. How the Mind Works
    How the Mind Works is a popular science book by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker that explores human thought and behavior through the lenses of evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience.
  • E. Mindhunters
    Mindhunters is a 2004 psychological thriller film about FBI profiler trainees trapped on a remote island with a serial killer who begins murdering them one by one.
  • 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_69a8862bdb2081908aefe831c8aa8017 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa64169c508190a33074fb06e9c755 completed March 6, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ada0e84c1c8190917edf14003cba81 completed March 8, 2026, 4:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ada1a401548190af00bae3b89e46b0 completed March 8, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ada26804288190838a93b71b494650 completed March 8, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:31 p.m.