Triple

T2326026
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cape Fear (1962 film) E48289 entity
Predicate basedOnAuthor P2806 FINISHED
Object John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald was an American novelist best known for his hardboiled crime and suspense fiction, including the Travis McGee series.
 E255041 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: John D. MacDonald | Statement: [Cape Fear (1962 film), basedOnAuthor, John D. MacDonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John D. MacDonald
Context triple: [Cape Fear (1962 film), basedOnAuthor, John D. MacDonald]
  • A. Elmore Leonard
    Elmore Leonard was an American novelist and screenwriter renowned for his gritty crime fiction, sharp dialogue, and works such as "Rum Punch," "Get Shorty," and "Out of Sight."
  • B. Raymond Gardner
    Raymond Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner, a member of the Gardner family from rural North Carolina.
  • C. Mickey Spillane
    Mickey Spillane was an American crime novelist best known for his hard-boiled Mike Hammer detective series.
  • D. Robert Stone
    Robert Stone was an acclaimed American novelist known for his dark, politically charged fiction exploring moral ambiguity and American involvement abroad.
  • E. James Ellroy
    James Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer renowned for his dark, intricately plotted L.A. Quartet novels and his stylized, staccato prose.
  • 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: John D. MacDonald
Triple: [Cape Fear (1962 film), basedOnAuthor, John D. MacDonald]
Generated description
John D. MacDonald was an American novelist best known for his hardboiled crime and suspense fiction, including the Travis McGee series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John D. MacDonald
Target entity description: John D. MacDonald was an American novelist best known for his hardboiled crime and suspense fiction, including the Travis McGee series.
  • A. Elmore Leonard
    Elmore Leonard was an American novelist and screenwriter renowned for his gritty crime fiction, sharp dialogue, and works such as "Rum Punch," "Get Shorty," and "Out of Sight."
  • B. Raymond Gardner
    Raymond Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner, a member of the Gardner family from rural North Carolina.
  • C. Mickey Spillane
    Mickey Spillane was an American crime novelist best known for his hard-boiled Mike Hammer detective series.
  • D. Robert Stone
    Robert Stone was an acclaimed American novelist known for his dark, politically charged fiction exploring moral ambiguity and American involvement abroad.
  • E. James Ellroy
    James Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer renowned for his dark, intricately plotted L.A. Quartet novels and his stylized, staccato prose.
  • 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_69a88aa308a88190b0b86c011fda7fce completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc64b62a08190b5a415769ce42645 completed March 7, 2026, 6:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae897004308190bc2e335e9caea2ca completed March 9, 2026, 8:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae8ace309c8190b57426d1449de723 completed March 9, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae8b56d8548190aa6a99f3f7d99c3e completed March 9, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:50 p.m.