Triple

T5230581
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Collins Crime Club E118099 entity
Predicate notableAuthorPublished P7039 FINISHED
Object Freeman Wills Crofts
Freeman Wills Crofts was a prominent early 20th-century Irish mystery writer best known for his meticulously plotted detective novels featuring Inspector Joseph French.
E506129 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: Freeman Wills Crofts | Statement: [Collins Crime Club, notableAuthorPublished, Freeman Wills Crofts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Freeman Wills Crofts
Context triple: [Collins Crime Club, notableAuthorPublished, Freeman Wills Crofts]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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."
  • C. Michael Gilbert
    Michael Gilbert is a member of the Gilbert family, related to the American conductor Alan Gilbert.
  • D. 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."
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Freeman Wills Crofts
Triple: [Collins Crime Club, notableAuthorPublished, Freeman Wills Crofts]
Generated description
Freeman Wills Crofts was a prominent early 20th-century Irish mystery writer best known for his meticulously plotted detective novels featuring Inspector Joseph French.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Freeman Wills Crofts
Target entity description: Freeman Wills Crofts was a prominent early 20th-century Irish mystery writer best known for his meticulously plotted detective novels featuring Inspector Joseph French.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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."
  • C. Michael Gilbert
    Michael Gilbert is a member of the Gilbert family, related to the American conductor Alan Gilbert.
  • D. 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."
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69befe604a848190a3f6cc90185b3ca2 completed March 21, 2026, 8:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69befee07dd0819084edb50c55a3da04 completed March 21, 2026, 8:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69beff31344c81908c3b62cf528df3c3 completed March 21, 2026, 8:27 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:48 p.m.