Triple

T1794641
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject In Cold Blood E39575 entity
Predicate mainCharacters P9202 FINISHED
Object Herb Clutter
Herb Clutter is the prosperous, devout Kansas farmer and family man whose 1959 murder is central to Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
E202294 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: Herb Clutter | Statement: [In Cold Blood, mainCharacters, Herb Clutter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herb Clutter
Context triple: [In Cold Blood, mainCharacters, Herb Clutter]
  • A. Ma Barker
    Ma Barker was a notorious American crime matriarch of the early 20th century, associated with the Barker–Karpis gang and widely (though controversially) portrayed as the mastermind behind her sons’ criminal activities.
  • B. Jane Parker
    Jane Parker was the mother of British cavalry officer and politician Banastre Tarleton, a prominent figure in the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. Mary Corey
    Mary Corey was a woman from colonial Salem, Massachusetts, remembered primarily as one of the victims associated with the Salem witch trials era.
  • D. John Holmes
    John Holmes was a famous American adult film actor of the 1970s and early 1980s, widely known for his prolific career and distinctive physical attributes.
  • E. James Byrd Jr.
    James Byrd Jr. was an African American man whose brutal 1998 racially motivated murder in Texas became a catalyst for strengthening U.S. hate crime legislation.
  • 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: Herb Clutter
Triple: [In Cold Blood, mainCharacters, Herb Clutter]
Generated description
Herb Clutter is the prosperous, devout Kansas farmer and family man whose 1959 murder is central to Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herb Clutter
Target entity description: Herb Clutter is the prosperous, devout Kansas farmer and family man whose 1959 murder is central to Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
  • A. Ma Barker
    Ma Barker was a notorious American crime matriarch of the early 20th century, associated with the Barker–Karpis gang and widely (though controversially) portrayed as the mastermind behind her sons’ criminal activities.
  • B. Jane Parker
    Jane Parker was the mother of British cavalry officer and politician Banastre Tarleton, a prominent figure in the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. Mary Corey
    Mary Corey was a woman from colonial Salem, Massachusetts, remembered primarily as one of the victims associated with the Salem witch trials era.
  • D. John Holmes
    John Holmes was a famous American adult film actor of the 1970s and early 1980s, widely known for his prolific career and distinctive physical attributes.
  • E. James Byrd Jr.
    James Byrd Jr. was an African American man whose brutal 1998 racially motivated murder in Texas became a catalyst for strengthening U.S. hate crime legislation.
  • 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.