Triple

T20663756
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ed McBain E507826 entity
Predicate notableCharacter P1481 FINISHED
Object The Deaf Man NE NERFINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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 Deaf Man | Statement: [Ed McBain, notableCharacter, The Deaf Man]

Disambiguation candidates (2 decisions)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Deaf Man
Context triple: [Ed McBain, notableCharacter, The Deaf Man]
  • A. House of the Deaf Man
    House of the Deaf Man is the name of Francisco Goya’s former residence near Madrid, famed as the site where he painted his haunting Black Paintings directly onto the walls.
  • B. The Blind Man
    The Blind Man was a short-lived but influential Dada art and literary magazine co-edited by Marcel Duchamp and others in New York in 1917.
  • C. The Troubled Man
    The Troubled Man is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, featuring detective Kurt Wallander in a politically tinged mystery involving Cold War secrets and personal turmoil.
  • D. The Blind
    "The Blind" is the English translation of Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist play "Les Aveugles," which portrays a group of blind people lost in a forest as an allegory of human uncertainty and existential dread.
  • E. Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man)
    Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man) was Francisco Goya’s country house near Madrid, famed as the original setting of his haunting series of mural works known as the Black Paintings.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Deaf Man
Target entity description: The Deaf Man is a recurring, enigmatic criminal mastermind and arch-nemesis of the 87th Precinct detectives in Ed McBain’s long-running police procedural novel series.
  • A. House of the Deaf Man
    House of the Deaf Man is the name of Francisco Goya’s former residence near Madrid, famed as the site where he painted his haunting Black Paintings directly onto the walls.
  • B. The Blind Man
    The Blind Man was a short-lived but influential Dada art and literary magazine co-edited by Marcel Duchamp and others in New York in 1917.
  • C. The Troubled Man
    The Troubled Man is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, featuring detective Kurt Wallander in a politically tinged mystery involving Cold War secrets and personal turmoil.
  • D. The Blind
    "The Blind" is the English translation of Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist play "Les Aveugles," which portrays a group of blind people lost in a forest as an allegory of human uncertainty and existential dread.
  • E. Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man)
    Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man) was Francisco Goya’s country house near Madrid, famed as the original setting of his haunting series of mural works known as the Black Paintings.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69e0b4c059bc81908ea762cd73ea4424 elicitation completed
NER batch_69e6b2f541bc8190ac7946b91647f2b0 ner completed
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:44 a.m.