Triple

T22432831
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Silence of the Lambs universe E554539 entity
Predicate recurringCharacter P12208 FINISHED
Object Frederick Chilton
Frederick Chilton is a vain and ethically dubious psychiatrist and administrator who repeatedly crosses paths with Hannibal Lecter in Thomas Harris’s Silence of the Lambs universe.
E1537321 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: Frederick Chilton | Statement: [The Silence of the Lambs universe, recurringCharacter, Frederick Chilton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick Chilton
Context triple: [The Silence of the Lambs universe, recurringCharacter, Frederick Chilton]
  • A. Frederick Etchells
    Frederick Etchells was a British artist, architect, and translator best known for his involvement in the early 20th-century avant-garde, particularly the Vorticist movement.
  • B. William Alexander Chilton
    William Alexander Chilton, better known as Alex Chilton, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist famed for his work with the Box Tops and the influential power pop band Big Star.
  • C. Henry Farnham
    Henry Farnham was a notable individual significant enough in exploration or regional history to have Mount Farnham in British Columbia named in his honor.
  • D. Francis Burleigh
    Francis Burleigh was an English clergyman and scholar who served as one of the translators of the King James Bible in the early 17th century.
  • E. Charles Apthorp
    Charles Apthorp was an 18th-century Boston merchant and prominent Loyalist known as one of the wealthiest and most influential businessmen in colonial New England.
  • 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: Frederick Chilton
Triple: [The Silence of the Lambs universe, recurringCharacter, Frederick Chilton]
Generated description
Frederick Chilton is a vain and ethically dubious psychiatrist and administrator who repeatedly crosses paths with Hannibal Lecter in Thomas Harris’s Silence of the Lambs universe.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick Chilton
Target entity description: Frederick Chilton is a vain and ethically dubious psychiatrist and administrator who repeatedly crosses paths with Hannibal Lecter in Thomas Harris’s Silence of the Lambs universe.
  • A. Frederick Etchells
    Frederick Etchells was a British artist, architect, and translator best known for his involvement in the early 20th-century avant-garde, particularly the Vorticist movement.
  • B. William Alexander Chilton
    William Alexander Chilton, better known as Alex Chilton, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist famed for his work with the Box Tops and the influential power pop band Big Star.
  • C. Henry Farnham
    Henry Farnham was a notable individual significant enough in exploration or regional history to have Mount Farnham in British Columbia named in his honor.
  • D. Francis Burleigh
    Francis Burleigh was an English clergyman and scholar who served as one of the translators of the King James Bible in the early 17th century.
  • E. Charles Apthorp
    Charles Apthorp was an 18th-century Boston merchant and prominent Loyalist known as one of the wealthiest and most influential businessmen in colonial New England.
  • 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_69e11e5010e48190ae1e9c9db9697637 completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f15a3320448190ae3931062599116e completed April 29, 2026, 1:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b0c691e9881908734ed4f36baabba completed May 18, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b0d10a50881909fb586a3c529623d completed May 18, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b0daf9bac819086166985458f6742 completed May 18, 2026, 1:01 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:47 p.m.