Triple

T8984755
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James McDermott E214630 entity
Predicate centralEvent P4751 FINISHED
Object murder of Nancy Montgomery
The murder of Nancy Montgomery was a notorious 1843 Canadian crime in which housekeeper Nancy Montgomery was killed alongside her employer Thomas Kinnear, a case later popularized in Margaret Atwood’s novel "Alias Grace."
E771617 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: murder of Nancy Montgomery | Statement: [James McDermott, centralEvent, murder of Nancy Montgomery]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: murder of Nancy Montgomery
Context triple: [James McDermott, centralEvent, murder of Nancy Montgomery]
  • A. Murder of Laura Foster
    The Murder of Laura Foster refers to the 1866 killing of a young woman in North Carolina, a notorious case that inspired the American folk ballad and legend of Tom Dooley.
  • B. The Marcus-Nelson Murders
    The Marcus-Nelson Murders is a 1973 television crime drama film that served as the pilot for the Kojak series, loosely inspired by the real-life Wylie-Hoffert murder case.
  • C. Thaw–White murder case
    The Thaw–White murder case was a sensational early 20th-century American scandal in which millionaire Harry K. Thaw fatally shot famed architect Stanford White over White’s relationship with actress Evelyn Nesbit, captivating the public and press with its mix of sex, jealousy, and high society.
  • D. Hudson family murders
    The Hudson family murders refer to the 2008 killings of Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother, and nephew in Chicago, a high-profile case that drew national attention due to the actress-singer’s fame and the crime’s brutality.
  • E. murder of Albert Snyder
    The murder of Albert Snyder was a notorious 1927 New York crime in which his wife Ruth Snyder and her lover Judd Gray killed him in a plot that led to sensational media coverage and their executions in the electric chair.
  • 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: murder of Nancy Montgomery
Triple: [James McDermott, centralEvent, murder of Nancy Montgomery]
Generated description
The murder of Nancy Montgomery was a notorious 1843 Canadian crime in which housekeeper Nancy Montgomery was killed alongside her employer Thomas Kinnear, a case later popularized in Margaret Atwood’s novel "Alias Grace."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: murder of Nancy Montgomery
Target entity description: The murder of Nancy Montgomery was a notorious 1843 Canadian crime in which housekeeper Nancy Montgomery was killed alongside her employer Thomas Kinnear, a case later popularized in Margaret Atwood’s novel "Alias Grace."
  • A. Murder of Laura Foster
    The Murder of Laura Foster refers to the 1866 killing of a young woman in North Carolina, a notorious case that inspired the American folk ballad and legend of Tom Dooley.
  • B. The Marcus-Nelson Murders
    The Marcus-Nelson Murders is a 1973 television crime drama film that served as the pilot for the Kojak series, loosely inspired by the real-life Wylie-Hoffert murder case.
  • C. Thaw–White murder case
    The Thaw–White murder case was a sensational early 20th-century American scandal in which millionaire Harry K. Thaw fatally shot famed architect Stanford White over White’s relationship with actress Evelyn Nesbit, captivating the public and press with its mix of sex, jealousy, and high society.
  • D. Hudson family murders
    The Hudson family murders refer to the 2008 killings of Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother, and nephew in Chicago, a high-profile case that drew national attention due to the actress-singer’s fame and the crime’s brutality.
  • E. murder of Albert Snyder
    The murder of Albert Snyder was a notorious 1927 New York crime in which his wife Ruth Snyder and her lover Judd Gray killed him in a plot that led to sensational media coverage and their executions in the electric chair.
  • 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_69ca839f76bc8190a4b7123cdd682199 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc67ecc5188190a6fb4d5456893121 completed April 1, 2026, 12:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfd0b89a7481908f747043d2a68a37 completed April 3, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfd14a28d48190b63561f9a537daeb completed April 3, 2026, 2:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfd1fd6db08190921285c3cfd3ce91 completed April 3, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:03 p.m.