Triple
T9839454
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Onion Field |
E239183
|
entity |
| Predicate | portraysRealPerson |
P10301
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Karl Hettinger
Karl Hettinger was a Los Angeles police officer whose traumatic experience as a kidnapped cop and witness to his partner’s murder in the 1963 “Onion Field” case became the basis for Joseph Wambaugh’s true-crime book and its film adaptation.
|
E849394
|
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: Karl Hettinger | Statement: [The Onion Field, portraysRealPerson, Karl Hettinger]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Karl Hettinger Context triple: [The Onion Field, portraysRealPerson, Karl Hettinger]
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A.
Karl Krueger
Karl Krueger was an American conductor known for his work with major orchestras and for making early high-fidelity orchestral recordings.
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B.
Karl Arnold
Karl Arnold was a prominent German politician who served as Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia and played a key role in post-World War II reconstruction and democratic development.
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C.
Erich Rothacker
Erich Rothacker was a German philosopher and cultural theorist known for his work in philosophical anthropology and the humanities, and for supervising Jürgen Habermas’s doctoral studies.
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D.
Charles Rettig
Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
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E.
Charles Leickert
Charles Leickert was a 19th-century Dutch painter renowned for his atmospheric winter landscapes and cityscapes of the Netherlands.
- 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: Karl Hettinger Triple: [The Onion Field, portraysRealPerson, Karl Hettinger]
Generated description
Karl Hettinger was a Los Angeles police officer whose traumatic experience as a kidnapped cop and witness to his partner’s murder in the 1963 “Onion Field” case became the basis for Joseph Wambaugh’s true-crime book and its film adaptation.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Karl Hettinger Target entity description: Karl Hettinger was a Los Angeles police officer whose traumatic experience as a kidnapped cop and witness to his partner’s murder in the 1963 “Onion Field” case became the basis for Joseph Wambaugh’s true-crime book and its film adaptation.
-
A.
Karl Krueger
Karl Krueger was an American conductor known for his work with major orchestras and for making early high-fidelity orchestral recordings.
-
B.
Karl Arnold
Karl Arnold was a prominent German politician who served as Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia and played a key role in post-World War II reconstruction and democratic development.
-
C.
Erich Rothacker
Erich Rothacker was a German philosopher and cultural theorist known for his work in philosophical anthropology and the humanities, and for supervising Jürgen Habermas’s doctoral studies.
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D.
Charles Rettig
Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
-
E.
Charles Leickert
Charles Leickert was a 19th-century Dutch painter renowned for his atmospheric winter landscapes and cityscapes of the Netherlands.
- 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_69ca84e3f0c48190ada72a65ebd50efd |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cdb34b045481908f89abd576aab497 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 12:07 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d6525a4af08190bcd8455e95a2f3ae |
completed | April 8, 2026, 1:04 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69d65348c988819083f4c8008a1f8cf7 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 1:08 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69d654b44070819098e1148e9dbd8a11 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 1:14 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:33 p.m.