Triple

T15621844
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Flags in the Dust E375575 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Horace Benbow
Horace Benbow is a reflective, morally conflicted small-town lawyer who serves as one of the central protagonists in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County novels.
E551105 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: Horace Benbow | Statement: [Flags in the Dust, featuresCharacter, Horace Benbow]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Horace Benbow
Context triple: [Flags in the Dust, featuresCharacter, Horace Benbow]
  • A. Horace Benbow
    Horace Benbow is a morally conflicted, idealistic lawyer who serves as one of the central protagonists in William Faulkner’s novel "Sanctuary."
  • B. Horace Jones
    Horace Jones was a 19th-century British architect best known as the City of London’s architect and for his role in designing London’s iconic Tower Bridge.
  • C. Horace Lloyd
    Horace Lloyd was a 19th-century English barrister best known as the father of Constance Lloyd, the wife of writer Oscar Wilde.
  • D. Horace Scudder
    Horace Scudder was a 19th-century American editor, author, and biographer best known for his work with The Atlantic Monthly and his influential writings for children.
  • E. William Brazel
    William Brazel was the New Mexico rancher whose discovery of mysterious debris on his property in 1947 sparked what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
  • 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: Horace Benbow
Triple: [Flags in the Dust, featuresCharacter, Horace Benbow]
Generated description
Horace Benbow is a reflective, morally conflicted small-town lawyer who serves as one of the central protagonists in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County novels.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Horace Benbow
Target entity description: Horace Benbow is a reflective, morally conflicted small-town lawyer who serves as one of the central protagonists in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County novels.
  • A. Horace Benbow chosen
    Horace Benbow is a morally conflicted, idealistic lawyer who serves as one of the central protagonists in William Faulkner’s novel "Sanctuary."
  • B. Horace Jones
    Horace Jones was a 19th-century British architect best known as the City of London’s architect and for his role in designing London’s iconic Tower Bridge.
  • C. Horace Lloyd
    Horace Lloyd was a 19th-century English barrister best known as the father of Constance Lloyd, the wife of writer Oscar Wilde.
  • D. Horace Scudder
    Horace Scudder was a 19th-century American editor, author, and biographer best known for his work with The Atlantic Monthly and his influential writings for children.
  • E. William Brazel
    William Brazel was the New Mexico rancher whose discovery of mysterious debris on his property in 1947 sparked what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d85ccf2794819096cda4cbcb02d478 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04e9a95f08190b0013ba1428849d3 completed April 16, 2026, 2:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffb0335a0c8190ade4c2f78df3d113 completed May 9, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffb0be9fa88190ab691c4c1d845ea9 completed May 9, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffb12f3e4c8190be983f00ae1d5160 completed May 9, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:13 a.m.