Triple

T1794636
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject In Cold Blood E39575 entity
Predicate subject P450 FINISHED
Object Clutter family murders
The Clutter family murders were a notorious 1959 quadruple homicide in Holcomb, Kansas, that became widely known through Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
E202293 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: Clutter family murders | Statement: [In Cold Blood, subject, Clutter family murders]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clutter family murders
Context triple: [In Cold Blood, subject, Clutter family murders]
  • A. The Boston Strangler
    The Boston Strangler is a 1968 crime thriller film dramatizing the real-life case of a notorious serial killer who terrorized Boston in the early 1960s.
  • B. Moors murders
    The Moors murders were a series of notorious child killings carried out in 1960s England by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, which became one of the most infamous criminal cases in British history.
  • C. Leopold and Loeb murder trial
    The Leopold and Loeb murder trial was a 1924 American criminal case in which famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow argued against the death penalty for two wealthy University of Chicago students who had committed a highly publicized "thrill killing" of a young boy.
  • D. Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
    The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was a notorious 1929 gangland killing in Chicago in which seven members of Bugs Moran's North Side Gang were murdered, widely believed to have been orchestrated by Al Capone, symbolizing the violent criminal underworld of the Prohibition era.
  • E. Lindbergh kidnapping
    The Lindbergh kidnapping was the infamous 1932 abduction and murder of aviator Charles Lindbergh’s young son, a crime that gripped the United States and led to major changes in federal kidnapping laws.
  • 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: Clutter family murders
Triple: [In Cold Blood, subject, Clutter family murders]
Generated description
The Clutter family murders were a notorious 1959 quadruple homicide in Holcomb, Kansas, that became widely known through Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clutter family murders
Target entity description: The Clutter family murders were a notorious 1959 quadruple homicide in Holcomb, Kansas, that became widely known through Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
  • A. The Boston Strangler
    The Boston Strangler is a 1968 crime thriller film dramatizing the real-life case of a notorious serial killer who terrorized Boston in the early 1960s.
  • B. Moors murders
    The Moors murders were a series of notorious child killings carried out in 1960s England by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, which became one of the most infamous criminal cases in British history.
  • C. Leopold and Loeb murder trial
    The Leopold and Loeb murder trial was a 1924 American criminal case in which famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow argued against the death penalty for two wealthy University of Chicago students who had committed a highly publicized "thrill killing" of a young boy.
  • D. Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
    The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was a notorious 1929 gangland killing in Chicago in which seven members of Bugs Moran's North Side Gang were murdered, widely believed to have been orchestrated by Al Capone, symbolizing the violent criminal underworld of the Prohibition era.
  • E. Lindbergh kidnapping
    The Lindbergh kidnapping was the infamous 1932 abduction and murder of aviator Charles Lindbergh’s young son, a crime that gripped the United States and led to major changes in federal kidnapping laws.
  • 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_69a88631854081909723959921e45c2b completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa653daa0c8190a5d96c20c8a0af15 completed March 6, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adb5d49d7481909dcb5cc54b92e3cc completed March 8, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adb8b54a5081908b7dba1ff0d1a8da completed March 8, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adb9b7a32481908a11686d658a077a completed March 8, 2026, 6:02 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.