Triple

T16252061
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lawrence Sanders E394532 entity
Predicate createdCharacter P2004 FINISHED
Object Edward X. Delaney
Edward X. Delaney is a fictional New York City police detective who serves as the protagonist in several crime novels by Lawrence Sanders.
E1287227 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: Edward X. Delaney | Statement: [Lawrence Sanders, createdCharacter, Edward X. Delaney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward X. Delaney
Context triple: [Lawrence Sanders, createdCharacter, Edward X. Delaney]
  • A. Henry J. Daly
    Henry J. Daly was a Washington, D.C. police officer whose service and death in the line of duty led to a major municipal building being named in his honor.
  • B. Edward P. Doherty
    Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
  • C. Theodore F. MacManus
    Theodore F. MacManus was a pioneering American advertising copywriter renowned for his influential early 20th-century automobile campaigns, particularly for Cadillac.
  • D. Charles E. Kearney
    Charles E. Kearney was a 19th-century American railroad executive and civic leader after whom the city of Kearney, Missouri, is named.
  • E. Arthur E. Molloy
    Arthur E. Molloy was an individual significant enough in marine or exploratory history to have the undersea feature Molloy Deep named in his honor.
  • 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: Edward X. Delaney
Triple: [Lawrence Sanders, createdCharacter, Edward X. Delaney]
Generated description
Edward X. Delaney is a fictional New York City police detective who serves as the protagonist in several crime novels by Lawrence Sanders.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward X. Delaney
Target entity description: Edward X. Delaney is a fictional New York City police detective who serves as the protagonist in several crime novels by Lawrence Sanders.
  • A. Henry J. Daly
    Henry J. Daly was a Washington, D.C. police officer whose service and death in the line of duty led to a major municipal building being named in his honor.
  • B. Edward P. Doherty
    Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
  • C. Theodore F. MacManus
    Theodore F. MacManus was a pioneering American advertising copywriter renowned for his influential early 20th-century automobile campaigns, particularly for Cadillac.
  • D. Charles E. Kearney
    Charles E. Kearney was a 19th-century American railroad executive and civic leader after whom the city of Kearney, Missouri, is named.
  • E. Arthur E. Molloy
    Arthur E. Molloy was an individual significant enough in marine or exploratory history to have the undersea feature Molloy Deep named in his honor.
  • 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_69d87f2171208190951025e526947816 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e24597b74481908fdb8175628a57a1 completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a02ef9f91c0819080931a4f21546915 completed May 12, 2026, 9:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a02f113a41c8190b17611eaa50516ca completed May 12, 2026, 9:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a02f1e980f4819087eb191e13396581 completed May 12, 2026, 9:24 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:04 a.m.