Triple

T20663756
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ed McBain E507826 entity
Predicate notableCharacter P1481 FINISHED
Object The Deaf Man
The Deaf Man is a recurring, enigmatic criminal mastermind and arch-nemesis of the 87th Precinct detectives in Ed McBain’s long-running police procedural novel series.
E1444527 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: The Deaf Man | Statement: [Ed McBain, notableCharacter, The Deaf Man]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Deaf Man
Context triple: [Ed McBain, notableCharacter, The Deaf Man]
  • A. House of the Deaf Man
    House of the Deaf Man is the name of Francisco Goya’s former residence near Madrid, famed as the site where he painted his haunting Black Paintings directly onto the walls.
  • B. The Blind Man
    The Blind Man was a short-lived but influential Dada art and literary magazine co-edited by Marcel Duchamp and others in New York in 1917.
  • C. The Troubled Man
    The Troubled Man is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, featuring detective Kurt Wallander in a politically tinged mystery involving Cold War secrets and personal turmoil.
  • D. The Blind
    "The Blind" is the English translation of Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist play "Les Aveugles," which portrays a group of blind people lost in a forest as an allegory of human uncertainty and existential dread.
  • E. Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man)
    Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man) was Francisco Goya’s country house near Madrid, famed as the original setting of his haunting series of mural works known as the Black Paintings.
  • 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: The Deaf Man
Triple: [Ed McBain, notableCharacter, The Deaf Man]
Generated description
The Deaf Man is a recurring, enigmatic criminal mastermind and arch-nemesis of the 87th Precinct detectives in Ed McBain’s long-running police procedural novel series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Deaf Man
Target entity description: The Deaf Man is a recurring, enigmatic criminal mastermind and arch-nemesis of the 87th Precinct detectives in Ed McBain’s long-running police procedural novel series.
  • A. House of the Deaf Man
    House of the Deaf Man is the name of Francisco Goya’s former residence near Madrid, famed as the site where he painted his haunting Black Paintings directly onto the walls.
  • B. The Blind Man
    The Blind Man was a short-lived but influential Dada art and literary magazine co-edited by Marcel Duchamp and others in New York in 1917.
  • C. The Troubled Man
    The Troubled Man is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, featuring detective Kurt Wallander in a politically tinged mystery involving Cold War secrets and personal turmoil.
  • D. The Blind
    "The Blind" is the English translation of Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist play "Les Aveugles," which portrays a group of blind people lost in a forest as an allegory of human uncertainty and existential dread.
  • E. Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man)
    Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man) was Francisco Goya’s country house near Madrid, famed as the original setting of his haunting series of mural works known as the Black Paintings.
  • 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_69e6b2f541bc8190ac7946b91647f2b0 completed April 20, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08cd5d0da481909eebd69b8b314503 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_6a08d293523c8190aaa01c6c73c9afd5 completed May 16, 2026, 8:24 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:44 a.m.