Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Staircase E566068 entity
Predicate portrays P264 FINISHED
Object Todd Peterson
Todd Peterson is a character in the true-crime docuseries "The Staircase," which chronicles the investigation and trial surrounding the death of Kathleen Peterson and the prosecution of her husband, Michael Peterson.
E1557695 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: Todd Peterson | Statement: [The Staircase, portrays, Todd Peterson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Todd Peterson
Context triple: [The Staircase, portrays, Todd Peterson]
  • A. Todd Peterson
    Todd Peterson is the straight-laced, put-upon son whose life is upended when his immature, long-estranged father reenters his world in the comedy film "That's My Boy."
  • B. Bruce Peterson
    Bruce Peterson was an American test pilot and NASA research pilot best known for surviving a dramatic crash of the Northrop M2-F2 lifting body aircraft in 1967.
  • C. Eric Peterson
    Eric Peterson is a Canadian actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including a role in the road-trip comedy-drama "Cas and Dylan."
  • D. Don Peters
    Don Peters is a character in Stephen King and Owen King's novel "Sleeping Beauties," involved in the unfolding crisis when women worldwide fall into a mysterious sleep.
  • E. Christopher Peters
    Christopher Peters is an American film and television producer and former actor, known as the son of actress Lesley Ann Warren and producer Jon Peters.
  • 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: Todd Peterson
Triple: [The Staircase, portrays, Todd Peterson]
Generated description
Todd Peterson is a character in the true-crime docuseries "The Staircase," which chronicles the investigation and trial surrounding the death of Kathleen Peterson and the prosecution of her husband, Michael Peterson.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Todd Peterson
Target entity description: Todd Peterson is a character in the true-crime docuseries "The Staircase," which chronicles the investigation and trial surrounding the death of Kathleen Peterson and the prosecution of her husband, Michael Peterson.
  • A. Todd Peterson
    Todd Peterson is the straight-laced, put-upon son whose life is upended when his immature, long-estranged father reenters his world in the comedy film "That's My Boy."
  • B. Bruce Peterson
    Bruce Peterson was an American test pilot and NASA research pilot best known for surviving a dramatic crash of the Northrop M2-F2 lifting body aircraft in 1967.
  • C. Eric Peterson
    Eric Peterson is a Canadian actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including a role in the road-trip comedy-drama "Cas and Dylan."
  • D. Don Peters
    Don Peters is a character in Stephen King and Owen King's novel "Sleeping Beauties," involved in the unfolding crisis when women worldwide fall into a mysterious sleep.
  • E. Christopher Peters
    Christopher Peters is an American film and television producer and former actor, known as the son of actress Lesley Ann Warren and producer Jon Peters.
  • 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_69e245869e188190a196584f36e682da completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f17e83fa48819084568264ef45c833 completed April 29, 2026, 3:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0ba7b565388190bb70602834ae5622 completed May 18, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0ba8666f608190b512aa4c8442f6c1 completed May 19, 2026, 12:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0baa4decf881909774facad2cae93d completed May 19, 2026, 12:09 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:35 p.m.