Triple

T13561361
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walker Percy E323915 entity
Predicate relative P37 FINISHED
Object William Alexander Percy
William Alexander Percy was an American lawyer, planter, and poet from Mississippi, best known for his memoir "Lanterns on the Levee" and for mentoring his cousin, the novelist Walker Percy.
 E1046807 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: William Alexander Percy | Statement: [Walker Percy, relative, William Alexander Percy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Alexander Percy
Context triple: [Walker Percy, relative, William Alexander Percy]
  • A. Edward Saunders Cheatham
    Edward Saunders Cheatham was a 19th-century American politician from Tennessee after whom Cheatham County was named.
  • B. Ben Faulkner
    Ben Faulkner is an actor best known for his role in the psychological thriller film "Silent Fall."
  • C. Tarrant Hinton
    Tarrant Hinton is a small rural village in Dorset, England, best known for hosting the annual Great Dorset Steam Fair.
  • D. Wilson Lumpkin
    Wilson Lumpkin was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Georgia and a U.S. congressman, known for his role in the state's early development and politics.
  • E. Samuel Ashe
    Samuel Ashe was an American Revolutionary-era politician and governor of North Carolina after whom the city of Asheville was named.
  • 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: William Alexander Percy
Triple: [Walker Percy, relative, William Alexander Percy]
Generated description
William Alexander Percy was an American lawyer, planter, and poet from Mississippi, best known for his memoir "Lanterns on the Levee" and for mentoring his cousin, the novelist Walker Percy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Alexander Percy
Target entity description: William Alexander Percy was an American lawyer, planter, and poet from Mississippi, best known for his memoir "Lanterns on the Levee" and for mentoring his cousin, the novelist Walker Percy.
  • A. Edward Saunders Cheatham
    Edward Saunders Cheatham was a 19th-century American politician from Tennessee after whom Cheatham County was named.
  • B. Ben Faulkner
    Ben Faulkner is an actor best known for his role in the psychological thriller film "Silent Fall."
  • C. Tarrant Hinton
    Tarrant Hinton is a small rural village in Dorset, England, best known for hosting the annual Great Dorset Steam Fair.
  • D. Wilson Lumpkin
    Wilson Lumpkin was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Georgia and a U.S. congressman, known for his role in the state's early development and politics.
  • E. Samuel Ashe
    Samuel Ashe was an American Revolutionary-era politician and governor of North Carolina after whom the city of Asheville was named.
  • 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_69d8076830b48190910a902bae5888e2 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaff5219081909cf60423e79d278f completed April 12, 2026, 2:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f75dad601481908de5f266f01f3f49 completed May 3, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f75f563cfc81909cde4c403ac10a58 completed May 3, 2026, 2:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f75fcbf9548190abd74bf4f4ae2e11 completed May 3, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:47 p.m.