Triple

T20773689
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Prescription: Murder E511300 entity
Predicate followedBy P78 FINISHED
Object Ransom for a Dead Man
Ransom for a Dead Man is a 1971 television movie in the Columbo series, featuring Peter Falk as the shrewd detective investigating a staged kidnapping that masks a calculated murder.
E1450404 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: Ransom for a Dead Man | Statement: [Prescription: Murder, followedBy, Ransom for a Dead Man]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ransom for a Dead Man
Context triple: [Prescription: Murder, followedBy, Ransom for a Dead Man]
  • A. Dead Man’s Ransom
    Dead Man’s Ransom is a historical mystery novel in the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters, set in 12th-century England and blending monastic life with intricate crime investigation.
  • B. The Noose
    "The Noose" is a song by the American rock band Splinter.
  • C. The Noose
    "The Noose" is a 1928 American silent crime drama film starring Richard Barthelmess, noted for its intense melodrama and early sound-era experimentation.
  • D. The Desperate Man
    The Desperate Man is a famous early self-portrait by French Realist painter Gustave Courbet, known for its intense, wide-eyed expression and dramatic depiction of psychological turmoil.
  • E. Ranson's Folly
    Ranson's Folly is an early 20th-century adventure novel by American writer Richard Harding Davis, known for its military setting and themes of honor and romance.
  • 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: Ransom for a Dead Man
Triple: [Prescription: Murder, followedBy, Ransom for a Dead Man]
Generated description
Ransom for a Dead Man is a 1971 television movie in the Columbo series, featuring Peter Falk as the shrewd detective investigating a staged kidnapping that masks a calculated murder.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ransom for a Dead Man
Target entity description: Ransom for a Dead Man is a 1971 television movie in the Columbo series, featuring Peter Falk as the shrewd detective investigating a staged kidnapping that masks a calculated murder.
  • A. Dead Man’s Ransom
    Dead Man’s Ransom is a historical mystery novel in the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters, set in 12th-century England and blending monastic life with intricate crime investigation.
  • B. The Noose
    "The Noose" is a song by the American rock band Splinter.
  • C. The Noose
    "The Noose" is a 1928 American silent crime drama film starring Richard Barthelmess, noted for its intense melodrama and early sound-era experimentation.
  • D. The Desperate Man
    The Desperate Man is a famous early self-portrait by French Realist painter Gustave Courbet, known for its intense, wide-eyed expression and dramatic depiction of psychological turmoil.
  • E. Ranson's Folly
    Ranson's Folly is an early 20th-century adventure novel by American writer Richard Harding Davis, known for its military setting and themes of honor and romance.
  • 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_69e0b4ca01148190ac018e57e0cab46f completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c269638881909d96b847f7de5585 completed April 21, 2026, 12:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08ef93cc608190b22637860b3882f9 completed May 16, 2026, 10:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08f40a1d1481908c8b87b947f1bf6d completed May 16, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08f46ea5788190ae545262d4cd70c1 completed May 16, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:37 p.m.