Triple

T20663406
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ellery Queen E507820 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Cat of Many Tails
Cat of Many Tails is a 1949 Ellery Queen mystery novel centered on a series of strangulation murders in New York City, often cited as an early and influential example of the modern serial-killer detective story.
E1443737 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: Cat of Many Tails | Statement: [Ellery Queen, notableWork, Cat of Many Tails]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cat of Many Tails
Context triple: [Ellery Queen, notableWork, Cat of Many Tails]
  • A. A Dream of a Thousand Cats
    A Dream of a Thousand Cats is a short story from Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman that follows a prophetic feline’s vision of an alternate reality where cats once ruled the world and might do so again if enough of them share the same dream.
  • B. The Master Cat
    The Master Cat, better known as "Puss in Boots," is a classic European fairy tale about a clever, boot-wearing cat who uses trickery and wit to secure wealth and status for his low-born master.
  • C. The Cat About Town
    The Cat About Town is a distinguished, portly, and impeccably dressed feline character from T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” known for frequenting gentlemen’s clubs and living a life of refined leisure.
  • D. The King of Cats
    The King of Cats is a celebrated painting by French-Polish modern artist Balthus, depicting a self-possessed, enigmatic figure alongside a cat in a surreal, dreamlike interior.
  • E. The Mystery Cat
    The Mystery Cat is the epithet of Macavity, the elusive master-criminal feline from T. S. Eliot’s "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats."
  • 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: Cat of Many Tails
Triple: [Ellery Queen, notableWork, Cat of Many Tails]
Generated description
Cat of Many Tails is a 1949 Ellery Queen mystery novel centered on a series of strangulation murders in New York City, often cited as an early and influential example of the modern serial-killer detective story.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cat of Many Tails
Target entity description: Cat of Many Tails is a 1949 Ellery Queen mystery novel centered on a series of strangulation murders in New York City, often cited as an early and influential example of the modern serial-killer detective story.
  • A. A Dream of a Thousand Cats
    A Dream of a Thousand Cats is a short story from Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman that follows a prophetic feline’s vision of an alternate reality where cats once ruled the world and might do so again if enough of them share the same dream.
  • B. The Master Cat
    The Master Cat, better known as "Puss in Boots," is a classic European fairy tale about a clever, boot-wearing cat who uses trickery and wit to secure wealth and status for his low-born master.
  • C. The Cat About Town
    The Cat About Town is a distinguished, portly, and impeccably dressed feline character from T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” known for frequenting gentlemen’s clubs and living a life of refined leisure.
  • D. The King of Cats
    The King of Cats is a celebrated painting by French-Polish modern artist Balthus, depicting a self-possessed, enigmatic figure alongside a cat in a surreal, dreamlike interior.
  • E. The Mystery Cat
    The Mystery Cat is the epithet of Macavity, the elusive master-criminal feline from T. S. Eliot’s "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats."
  • 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_69e0b4c059bc81908ea762cd73ea4424 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6b2f4872481908858eb88ce89dd47 completed April 20, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08cd5afe5081909e20b796dd9f0908 completed May 16, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08d175206c8190b119bb1a2d06462f completed May 16, 2026, 8:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08d28e02fc8190ab694673156ab0c0 completed May 16, 2026, 8:24 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:44 a.m.