Triple

T5230580
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Collins Crime Club E118099 entity
Predicate notableAuthorPublished P7039 FINISHED
Object John Dickson Carr
John Dickson Carr was an American mystery writer renowned for his ingenious locked-room and impossible-crime detective novels, particularly those featuring Dr. Gideon Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale.
E504415 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 Dickson Carr | Statement: [Collins Crime Club, notableAuthorPublished, John Dickson Carr]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Dickson Carr
Context triple: [Collins Crime Club, notableAuthorPublished, John Dickson Carr]
  • A. Michael Gilbert
    Michael Gilbert is a member of the Gilbert family, related to the American conductor Alan Gilbert.
  • B. 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."
  • C. Dorothy L. Sayers
    Dorothy L. Sayers was a renowned British crime writer, best known for her Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels and her contributions to Christian apologetics and literary criticism.
  • 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.
  • E. Agatha Christie
    Agatha Christie was a prolific British crime novelist and playwright, best known for creating the detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple and for being one of the best-selling authors in history.
  • 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 Dickson Carr
Triple: [Collins Crime Club, notableAuthorPublished, John Dickson Carr]
Generated description
John Dickson Carr was an American mystery writer renowned for his ingenious locked-room and impossible-crime detective novels, particularly those featuring Dr. Gideon Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Dickson Carr
Target entity description: John Dickson Carr was an American mystery writer renowned for his ingenious locked-room and impossible-crime detective novels, particularly those featuring Dr. Gideon Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale.
  • A. Michael Gilbert
    Michael Gilbert is a member of the Gilbert family, related to the American conductor Alan Gilbert.
  • B. 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."
  • C. Dorothy L. Sayers
    Dorothy L. Sayers was a renowned British crime writer, best known for her Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels and her contributions to Christian apologetics and literary criticism.
  • 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.
  • E. Agatha Christie
    Agatha Christie was a prolific British crime novelist and playwright, best known for creating the detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple and for being one of the best-selling authors in history.
  • 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_69bd4466fb8c819083b806a79414d7e4 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7b0093a88190aba381ba3f761408 completed March 20, 2026, 4:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bef810d6108190b2b2067cce12955b completed March 21, 2026, 7:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bef8acecf48190a1d3f56640bf7784 completed March 21, 2026, 7:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bef92017948190906d1be3551b54c2 completed March 21, 2026, 8:01 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:48 p.m.