Triple

T8651098
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Patton Oswalt E205099 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Michelle McNamara
Michelle McNamara was an American true-crime writer best known for her posthumously published book "I'll Be Gone in the Dark," which helped renew interest in and ultimately identify the Golden State Killer.
E749719 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: Michelle McNamara | Statement: [Patton Oswalt, spouse, Michelle McNamara]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michelle McNamara
Context triple: [Patton Oswalt, spouse, Michelle McNamara]
  • A. Beth Macintyre
    Beth Macintyre is a veteran prima ballerina in the film "Black Swan" whose fading career and replacement by a younger dancer underscore the story’s themes of obsession, aging, and artistic sacrifice.
  • B. Catherine McDougall
    Catherine McDougall is a person known primarily as the child of Alexander McDougall.
  • C. Susan Jebb
    Susan Jebb is a leading British nutrition scientist and public health expert who serves as chair of the UK’s Food Standards Agency.
  • D. Sarah Cox
    Sarah Cox was the wife of Australian explorer, politician, and author William Charles Wentworth, connecting her to one of the most prominent colonial figures in early New South Wales history.
  • E. Jill McCormick
    Jill McCormick is an American former fashion model and philanthropist best known as the wife of Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder.
  • 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: Michelle McNamara
Triple: [Patton Oswalt, spouse, Michelle McNamara]
Generated description
Michelle McNamara was an American true-crime writer best known for her posthumously published book "I'll Be Gone in the Dark," which helped renew interest in and ultimately identify the Golden State Killer.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michelle McNamara
Target entity description: Michelle McNamara was an American true-crime writer best known for her posthumously published book "I'll Be Gone in the Dark," which helped renew interest in and ultimately identify the Golden State Killer.
  • A. Beth Macintyre
    Beth Macintyre is a veteran prima ballerina in the film "Black Swan" whose fading career and replacement by a younger dancer underscore the story’s themes of obsession, aging, and artistic sacrifice.
  • B. Catherine McDougall
    Catherine McDougall is a person known primarily as the child of Alexander McDougall.
  • C. Susan Jebb
    Susan Jebb is a leading British nutrition scientist and public health expert who serves as chair of the UK’s Food Standards Agency.
  • D. Sarah Cox
    Sarah Cox was the wife of Australian explorer, politician, and author William Charles Wentworth, connecting her to one of the most prominent colonial figures in early New South Wales history.
  • E. Jill McCormick
    Jill McCormick is an American former fashion model and philanthropist best known as the wife of Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder.
  • 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_69ca834e56848190abb0eeaec9dedd32 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc48150e6c8190a7a3b92b4b640858 completed March 31, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ceccc95b588190b5e44c73cf93d18b completed April 2, 2026, 8:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cece1681288190a6c99407bc2f0bdd completed April 2, 2026, 8:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cecec118ac81909fbcafe841354c32 completed April 2, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:29 p.m.