Triple
T23062541
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Grifters |
E574942
|
entity |
| Predicate | screenwriter |
P2831
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Donald E. Westlake |
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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: Donald E. Westlake | Statement: [The Grifters, screenwriter, Donald E. Westlake]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald E. Westlake Context triple: [The Grifters, screenwriter, Donald E. Westlake]
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A.
Donald E. Westlake
chosen
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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B.
Robert Crais
Robert Crais is an American crime fiction author best known for his Elvis Cole and Joe Pike detective novels and for writing the novel "Hostage," which was adapted into a major film.
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C.
Robert B. Parker
Robert B. Parker was an American crime fiction author best known for his long-running Spenser detective novel series.
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D.
Ross Macdonald
Ross Macdonald was an American-Canadian crime writer best known for his hardboiled Lew Archer detective novels, which helped elevate the psychological depth and literary status of mid-20th-century mystery fiction.
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E.
Evan Hunter
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."
- 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_69e245bd6e4c8190bb8942245b68cad5 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f189a0c3c881909f137ad511c216ac |
completed | April 29, 2026, 4:31 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:55 p.m.