Triple

T4365899
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dial M for Murder E98770 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Frederick Knott
Frederick Knott was a British playwright and screenwriter best known for crafting tightly plotted stage thrillers such as "Dial M for Murder" and "Wait Until Dark."
E433560 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: Frederick Knott | Statement: [Dial M for Murder, screenwriter, Frederick Knott]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick Knott
Context triple: [Dial M for Murder, screenwriter, Frederick Knott]
  • A. Patrick Hamilton
    Patrick Hamilton is the Scottish novelist and playwright best known for works like "Rope" and "Gas Light," which inspired influential stage and film adaptations.
  • B. John Robie
    John Robie is a retired jewel thief known as "The Cat" who becomes embroiled in a new string of robberies on the French Riviera in Alfred Hitchcock's film "To Catch a Thief."
  • C. Laurence Gardner
    Laurence Gardner was a British author and lecturer known for his controversial books on alternative history, secret societies, and speculative theories about royal bloodlines and religious history.
  • D. Edgar Wallace
    Edgar Wallace was a prolific British writer best known for his crime novels and for contributing to the original story that inspired the 1933 film "King Kong."
  • E. Michael Hitchcock
    Michael Hitchcock is a bumbling, often inappropriate but oddly endearing detective in the comedy series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," known for his close partnership with Scully and his general incompetence.
  • 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: Frederick Knott
Triple: [Dial M for Murder, screenwriter, Frederick Knott]
Generated description
Frederick Knott was a British playwright and screenwriter best known for crafting tightly plotted stage thrillers such as "Dial M for Murder" and "Wait Until Dark."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick Knott
Target entity description: Frederick Knott was a British playwright and screenwriter best known for crafting tightly plotted stage thrillers such as "Dial M for Murder" and "Wait Until Dark."
  • A. Patrick Hamilton
    Patrick Hamilton is the Scottish novelist and playwright best known for works like "Rope" and "Gas Light," which inspired influential stage and film adaptations.
  • B. John Robie
    John Robie is a retired jewel thief known as "The Cat" who becomes embroiled in a new string of robberies on the French Riviera in Alfred Hitchcock's film "To Catch a Thief."
  • C. Laurence Gardner
    Laurence Gardner was a British author and lecturer known for his controversial books on alternative history, secret societies, and speculative theories about royal bloodlines and religious history.
  • D. Edgar Wallace
    Edgar Wallace was a prolific British writer best known for his crime novels and for contributing to the original story that inspired the 1933 film "King Kong."
  • E. Michael Hitchcock
    Michael Hitchcock is a bumbling, often inappropriate but oddly endearing detective in the comedy series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," known for his close partnership with Scully and his general incompetence.
  • 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_69b3454c772081908e20173e379e8ebe completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b35200263081909bb326a4d7a8db99 completed March 12, 2026, 11:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5dbcbbd1881908eb9f0ea6b2fe16b completed March 14, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5dcf36dfc8190847925dbed92c059 completed March 14, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5ddad45b8819082ac7a3a9c5f2f07 completed March 14, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:17 p.m.