Triple
T3530151
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Johnston McCulley |
E74638
|
entity |
| Predicate | wroteFor |
P1996
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Detective Story Magazine
Detective Story Magazine was an early 20th-century American pulp magazine specializing in crime and detective fiction, notable for publishing influential genre authors such as Johnston McCulley.
|
E364421
|
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: Detective Story Magazine | Statement: [Johnston McCulley, wroteFor, Detective Story Magazine]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Detective Story Magazine Context triple: [Johnston McCulley, wroteFor, Detective Story Magazine]
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A.
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine is a long-running American periodical devoted to crime and mystery fiction, featuring short stories, novellas, and critical essays by both established and emerging writers in the genre.
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B.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine is a long-running American digest magazine featuring original crime and mystery short stories, often by leading and emerging genre writers.
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C.
McClure's Magazine
McClure's Magazine was an influential American monthly periodical of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for its pioneering muckraking investigative journalism and literary contributions.
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D.
The Strand Magazine
The Strand Magazine was a popular late 19th- and early 20th-century British monthly periodical best known for publishing Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories and other notable works of fiction.
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E.
The Expressman and the Detective
The Expressman and the Detective is a 19th-century true-crime detective narrative by Allan Pinkerton, recounting one of his agency’s real-life investigations.
- 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: Detective Story Magazine Triple: [Johnston McCulley, wroteFor, Detective Story Magazine]
Generated description
Detective Story Magazine was an early 20th-century American pulp magazine specializing in crime and detective fiction, notable for publishing influential genre authors such as Johnston McCulley.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Detective Story Magazine Target entity description: Detective Story Magazine was an early 20th-century American pulp magazine specializing in crime and detective fiction, notable for publishing influential genre authors such as Johnston McCulley.
-
A.
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine is a long-running American periodical devoted to crime and mystery fiction, featuring short stories, novellas, and critical essays by both established and emerging writers in the genre.
-
B.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine is a long-running American digest magazine featuring original crime and mystery short stories, often by leading and emerging genre writers.
-
C.
McClure's Magazine
McClure's Magazine was an influential American monthly periodical of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for its pioneering muckraking investigative journalism and literary contributions.
-
D.
The Strand Magazine
The Strand Magazine was a popular late 19th- and early 20th-century British monthly periodical best known for publishing Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories and other notable works of fiction.
-
E.
The Expressman and the Detective
The Expressman and the Detective is a 19th-century true-crime detective narrative by Allan Pinkerton, recounting one of his agency’s real-life investigations.
- 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_69ad85d1a3948190931fd1ea1f49717b |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adbc9764a881908aa8d25dc9adf59e |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:14 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b37e97536881908d5ed3dfe602c9e0 |
completed | March 13, 2026, 3:03 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b37f232b8881908f7b4df89399d1d8 |
completed | March 13, 2026, 3:06 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b37f8fea9481909eb82a06e6c71e98 |
completed | March 13, 2026, 3:08 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:19 p.m.