Triple
T20663740
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ed McBain |
E507826
|
entity |
| Predicate | usedBy |
P260
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Evan Hunter |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
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: Evan Hunter | Statement: [Ed McBain, usedBy, Evan Hunter]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Evan Hunter Context triple: [Ed McBain, usedBy, Evan Hunter]
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A.
Evan Hunter
chosen
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."
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B.
Mickey Spillane
Mickey Spillane was an American crime novelist best known for his hard-boiled Mike Hammer detective series.
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C.
Donald E. Westlake
Donald E. Westlake was a prolific American crime and mystery novelist best known for his witty Dortmunder series and his darker Parker novels written under the pseudonym Richard Stark.
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D.
Raymond Gardner
Raymond Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner, a member of the Gardner family from rural North Carolina.
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E.
Iann Barron
Iann Barron is a British computer engineer and entrepreneur best known for founding the pioneering parallel computing company Inmos and helping develop the transputer microprocessor.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e0b4c059bc81908ea762cd73ea4424 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6b2f4872481908858eb88ce89dd47 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 11:12 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:44 a.m.