Triple

T22948283
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Devil in a Blue Dress E569934 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object Devil in a Blue Dress (novel)
"Devil in a Blue Dress" is a 1990 hardboiled crime novel by Walter Mosley that introduces Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, a Black World War II veteran turned unlicensed private investigator navigating racial tensions in postwar Los Angeles.
E1567882 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: Devil in a Blue Dress (novel) | Statement: [Devil in a Blue Dress, basedOn, Devil in a Blue Dress (novel)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Devil in a Blue Dress (novel)
Context triple: [Devil in a Blue Dress, basedOn, Devil in a Blue Dress (novel)]
  • A. Devil in a Blue Dress
    Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1995 neo-noir mystery film starring Denzel Washington as private investigator Easy Rawlins, adapted from Walter Mosley’s novel of the same name.
  • B. Heat of the Night
    "Heat of the Night" is a rock song by Bryan Adams, best known as the lead single from his 1987 album *Into the Fire*.
  • C. Perdido Street Blues
    "Perdido Street Blues" is a classic New Orleans jazz composition closely associated with clarinetist Johnny Dodds and the early jazz tradition.
  • D. Beale St. Blues
    "Beale St. Blues" is an alternate title for the classic American jazz and blues standard "Beale Street Blues," written by W.C. Handy and named after the famous Memphis street.
  • E. The Blue Dahlia
    The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 film noir crime drama, written by Raymond Chandler and starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, about a war veteran entangled in a murder mystery.
  • 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: Devil in a Blue Dress (novel)
Triple: [Devil in a Blue Dress, basedOn, Devil in a Blue Dress (novel)]
Generated description
"Devil in a Blue Dress" is a 1990 hardboiled crime novel by Walter Mosley that introduces Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, a Black World War II veteran turned unlicensed private investigator navigating racial tensions in postwar Los Angeles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Devil in a Blue Dress (novel)
Target entity description: "Devil in a Blue Dress" is a 1990 hardboiled crime novel by Walter Mosley that introduces Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, a Black World War II veteran turned unlicensed private investigator navigating racial tensions in postwar Los Angeles.
  • A. Devil in a Blue Dress
    Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1995 neo-noir mystery film starring Denzel Washington as private investigator Easy Rawlins, adapted from Walter Mosley’s novel of the same name.
  • B. Heat of the Night
    "Heat of the Night" is a rock song by Bryan Adams, best known as the lead single from his 1987 album *Into the Fire*.
  • C. Perdido Street Blues
    "Perdido Street Blues" is a classic New Orleans jazz composition closely associated with clarinetist Johnny Dodds and the early jazz tradition.
  • D. Beale St. Blues
    "Beale St. Blues" is an alternate title for the classic American jazz and blues standard "Beale Street Blues," written by W.C. Handy and named after the famous Memphis street.
  • E. The Blue Dahlia
    The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 film noir crime drama, written by Raymond Chandler and starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, about a war veteran entangled in a murder mystery.
  • 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_69e2459199d08190a8184ee2aa935842 completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1819fbf8c8190ad80c93f1507aa73 completed April 29, 2026, 3:57 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c0ac534d88190bd369b8e608b3ddc completed May 19, 2026, 7:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c0b70986c81909e1db90201b55f9d completed May 19, 2026, 7:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c0c368c1c81909075c3d9802cfa2f completed May 19, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:46 p.m.