Triple

T23290530
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject City of Lies E590014 entity
Predicate hasAuthorProfession P938 FINISHED
Object Alafair Burke is a crime novelist
Alafair Burke is an American crime novelist and law professor known for her contemporary suspense novels and collaborations with Mary Higgins Clark.
E1580204 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: Alafair Burke is a crime novelist | Statement: [City of Lies, hasAuthorProfession, Alafair Burke is a crime novelist]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alafair Burke is a crime novelist
Context triple: [City of Lies, hasAuthorProfession, Alafair Burke is a crime novelist]
  • A. Lynda La Plante
    Lynda La Plante is a British novelist, screenwriter, and former actress best known for her gritty crime dramas and influential work in television police procedurals.
  • B. Anna Fox
    Anna Fox was the wife of pioneering British anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor and a member of the Victorian intellectual milieu surrounding early anthropology.
  • C. Alison Cross
    Alison Cross is an American screenwriter known for her work on socially conscious television films and dramas, including the acclaimed biographical TV movie "Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story."
  • D. Rebecca Hammett
    Rebecca Hammett is best known as the former wife of Metallica lead guitarist Kirk Hammett.
  • E. Elizabeth Bell
    Elizabeth Bell is known as the wife of American actor Tobin Bell, who is widely recognized for his role as Jigsaw in the "Saw" film series.
  • 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: Alafair Burke is a crime novelist
Triple: [City of Lies, hasAuthorProfession, Alafair Burke is a crime novelist]
Generated description
Alafair Burke is an American crime novelist and law professor known for her contemporary suspense novels and collaborations with Mary Higgins Clark.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alafair Burke is a crime novelist
Target entity description: Alafair Burke is an American crime novelist and law professor known for her contemporary suspense novels and collaborations with Mary Higgins Clark.
  • A. Lynda La Plante
    Lynda La Plante is a British novelist, screenwriter, and former actress best known for her gritty crime dramas and influential work in television police procedurals.
  • B. Anna Fox
    Anna Fox was the wife of pioneering British anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor and a member of the Victorian intellectual milieu surrounding early anthropology.
  • C. Alison Cross
    Alison Cross is an American screenwriter known for her work on socially conscious television films and dramas, including the acclaimed biographical TV movie "Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story."
  • D. Rebecca Hammett
    Rebecca Hammett is best known as the former wife of Metallica lead guitarist Kirk Hammett.
  • E. Elizabeth Bell
    Elizabeth Bell is known as the wife of American actor Tobin Bell, who is widely recognized for his role as Jigsaw in the "Saw" film series.
  • 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_69e25d1af9d88190a0b9b5e8fa608618 completed April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f196cb3fec8190a95255da97dd984e completed April 29, 2026, 5:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c4c8c2f9081908123a02dcc37ea30 completed May 19, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c4ee292f08190a44326d433f37c65 completed May 19, 2026, 11:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c4f796b688190a8971ebd238e08f2 completed May 19, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:01 p.m.