Triple

T13618567
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Delta Wedding E325388 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Ellen Fairchild
Ellen Fairchild is a central character in Eudora Welty’s novel "Delta Wedding," depicted as a young woman navigating family ties and personal identity within a large Southern plantation family in 1920s Mississippi.
E1080580 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: Ellen Fairchild | Statement: [Delta Wedding, featuresCharacter, Ellen Fairchild]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellen Fairchild
Context triple: [Delta Wedding, featuresCharacter, Ellen Fairchild]
  • A. Ellen Corby
    Ellen Corby was an American character actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as the warm yet no-nonsense Grandma Esther Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
  • B. Ellen McHugh
    Ellen McHugh is a fictional character appearing in the 1928 silent drama film "Mother Machree."
  • C. Ellen French
    Ellen French was an American socialite from a prominent family, best known as the wife of wealthy businessman and sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt.
  • D. Elly Patterson
    Elly Patterson is the central matriarchal figure in Lynn Johnston’s long-running comic strip "For Better or For Worse," around whom the family-centered stories and themes revolve.
  • E. Florence McFadden
    Florence McFadden was the wife of American actor and vaudevillian Jack Haley, best known for his role as the Tin Man in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
  • 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: Ellen Fairchild
Triple: [Delta Wedding, featuresCharacter, Ellen Fairchild]
Generated description
Ellen Fairchild is a central character in Eudora Welty’s novel "Delta Wedding," depicted as a young woman navigating family ties and personal identity within a large Southern plantation family in 1920s Mississippi.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellen Fairchild
Target entity description: Ellen Fairchild is a central character in Eudora Welty’s novel "Delta Wedding," depicted as a young woman navigating family ties and personal identity within a large Southern plantation family in 1920s Mississippi.
  • A. Ellen Corby
    Ellen Corby was an American character actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as the warm yet no-nonsense Grandma Esther Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
  • B. Ellen McHugh
    Ellen McHugh is a fictional character appearing in the 1928 silent drama film "Mother Machree."
  • C. Ellen French
    Ellen French was an American socialite from a prominent family, best known as the wife of wealthy businessman and sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt.
  • D. Elly Patterson
    Elly Patterson is the central matriarchal figure in Lynn Johnston’s long-running comic strip "For Better or For Worse," around whom the family-centered stories and themes revolve.
  • E. Florence McFadden
    Florence McFadden was the wife of American actor and vaudevillian Jack Haley, best known for his role as the Tin Man in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
  • 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_69d8076aae28819092cf636190ee5529 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbb0ae77e0819081e3b14642460dc6 completed April 12, 2026, 2:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fcd08852a08190b9983e0c3058671a completed May 7, 2026, 5:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fcd4cc2f4c81909bd30cda58fc2393 completed May 7, 2026, 6:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fcd5c128c0819081edf72e25c6bc98 completed May 7, 2026, 6:11 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:50 p.m.