Triple

T8544888
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Clutter family murders E202293 entity
Predicate victim P870 FINISHED
Object Kenyon Clutter
Kenyon Clutter was a teenage member of the Clutter family whose 1959 murder in Holcomb, Kansas, became widely known through Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
E744987 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: Kenyon Clutter | Statement: [Clutter family murders, victim, Kenyon Clutter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenyon Clutter
Context triple: [Clutter family murders, victim, Kenyon Clutter]
  • A. Herb Clutter
    Herb Clutter is the prosperous, devout Kansas farmer and family man whose 1959 murder is central to Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
  • B. Nancy Clutter
    Nancy Clutter is a popular, high-achieving teenage girl from a respected Kansas family whose tragic murder is central to Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
  • C. Gary Starkweather
    Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
  • D. Richard Hickock
    Richard Hickock was one of the two American ex-convicts who brutally murdered the Clutter family in 1959, a crime later chronicled in Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
  • E. James Carroll Beckwith
    James Carroll Beckwith was an American portrait and genre painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his refined academic style and contributions to the New York art scene.
  • 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: Kenyon Clutter
Triple: [Clutter family murders, victim, Kenyon Clutter]
Generated description
Kenyon Clutter was a teenage member of the Clutter family whose 1959 murder in Holcomb, Kansas, became widely known through Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenyon Clutter
Target entity description: Kenyon Clutter was a teenage member of the Clutter family whose 1959 murder in Holcomb, Kansas, became widely known through Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
  • A. Herb Clutter
    Herb Clutter is the prosperous, devout Kansas farmer and family man whose 1959 murder is central to Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
  • B. Nancy Clutter
    Nancy Clutter is a popular, high-achieving teenage girl from a respected Kansas family whose tragic murder is central to Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
  • C. Gary Starkweather
    Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
  • D. Richard Hickock
    Richard Hickock was one of the two American ex-convicts who brutally murdered the Clutter family in 1959, a crime later chronicled in Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
  • E. James Carroll Beckwith
    James Carroll Beckwith was an American portrait and genre painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his refined academic style and contributions to the New York art scene.
  • 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_69ca832461e88190a654c5e44e233aa8 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe6e4e21c8190afcbca73713a5fa8 completed March 31, 2026, 3:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cea86036a881909cd1744cdb5b7a7f completed April 2, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cea9cff1ec8190a0093fb42782341e completed April 2, 2026, 5:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ceaa9f7f8c8190965e86880ff141d5 completed April 2, 2026, 5:42 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:18 p.m.