Triple

T23535999
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brian Selznick E576700 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Houdini Box
The Houdini Box is a children's picture book by Brian Selznick that blends illustration and text to tell a magical, historically inspired story about a boy obsessed with the legendary escape artist Harry Houdini.
E1591855 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: The Houdini Box | Statement: [Brian Selznick, notableWork, The Houdini Box]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Houdini Box
Context triple: [Brian Selznick, notableWork, The Houdini Box]
  • A. Houdini's Great Escape
    Houdini's Great Escape is a haunted-house–themed illusion ride at Six Flags Great Adventure that combines theatrical effects with motion-simulation to create a disorienting escape-room experience.
  • B. The Magic Box
    The Magic Box is a 1951 British biographical drama film about cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene, featuring Glynis Johns among its notable cast.
  • C. “Houdini”
    "Houdini" is a 2023 dance-pop single by English-Albanian singer Dua Lipa, noted for its disco-inspired production and confident, escapist lyrics.
  • D. Lemarchand's Box
    Lemarchand's Box is a fictional puzzle box from the Hellraiser franchise that serves as a gateway to another dimension, summoning the Cenobites when solved.
  • E. The Escape Artist
    The Escape Artist is a 1982 coming-of-age mystery film about a young aspiring magician who becomes entangled in crime and corruption while trying to prove himself.
  • 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: The Houdini Box
Triple: [Brian Selznick, notableWork, The Houdini Box]
Generated description
The Houdini Box is a children's picture book by Brian Selznick that blends illustration and text to tell a magical, historically inspired story about a boy obsessed with the legendary escape artist Harry Houdini.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Houdini Box
Target entity description: The Houdini Box is a children's picture book by Brian Selznick that blends illustration and text to tell a magical, historically inspired story about a boy obsessed with the legendary escape artist Harry Houdini.
  • A. Houdini's Great Escape
    Houdini's Great Escape is a haunted-house–themed illusion ride at Six Flags Great Adventure that combines theatrical effects with motion-simulation to create a disorienting escape-room experience.
  • B. The Magic Box
    The Magic Box is a 1951 British biographical drama film about cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene, featuring Glynis Johns among its notable cast.
  • C. “Houdini”
    "Houdini" is a 2023 dance-pop single by English-Albanian singer Dua Lipa, noted for its disco-inspired production and confident, escapist lyrics.
  • D. Lemarchand's Box
    Lemarchand's Box is a fictional puzzle box from the Hellraiser franchise that serves as a gateway to another dimension, summoning the Cenobites when solved.
  • E. The Escape Artist
    The Escape Artist is a 1982 coming-of-age mystery film about a young aspiring magician who becomes entangled in crime and corruption while trying to prove himself.
  • 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_69e245f5a8848190a2ba42e271c6c31f completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1ae1738bc81909a7b761ddbaa1883 completed April 29, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0cdf57c8088190bd78e9e6b99ddb46 completed May 19, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0ce35a16a08190969f6811be7e471c completed May 19, 2026, 10:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0ce4d4321c8190af0fe04f728c4f67 completed May 19, 2026, 10:31 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 6:10 p.m.