Triple
T15700460
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Joe Christmas |
E380578
|
entity |
| Predicate | raisedBy |
P17573
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
McEachern family
The McEachern family is a strict, religious household in William Faulkner’s novel "Light in August" that serves as the adoptive family of the troubled protagonist Joe Christmas.
|
E1174389
|
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: McEachern family | Statement: [Joe Christmas, raisedBy, McEachern family]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McEachern family Context triple: [Joe Christmas, raisedBy, McEachern family]
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A.
Aiken family
The Aiken family was a prominent 19th-century South Carolina political and planter dynasty centered in Charleston.
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B.
McClung family
The McClung family is a business-owning family best known for operating Ollie’s Barbecue, a Birmingham, Alabama restaurant that became central to a landmark U.S. civil rights and public accommodations case.
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C.
Gadsden family
The Gadsden family was a prominent colonial-era family in South Carolina, influential in commerce and politics and associated with early American revolutionary leadership.
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D.
Lumpkin family
The Lumpkin family is a benefactor family recognized for its significant philanthropic contributions to education, including endowing the Lumpkin College of Business and Technology.
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E.
McCaslin family
The McCaslin family is a prominent fictional Southern dynasty in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, central to his explorations of race, inheritance, and the legacy of slavery.
- 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: McEachern family Triple: [Joe Christmas, raisedBy, McEachern family]
Generated description
The McEachern family is a strict, religious household in William Faulkner’s novel "Light in August" that serves as the adoptive family of the troubled protagonist Joe Christmas.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McEachern family Target entity description: The McEachern family is a strict, religious household in William Faulkner’s novel "Light in August" that serves as the adoptive family of the troubled protagonist Joe Christmas.
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A.
Aiken family
The Aiken family was a prominent 19th-century South Carolina political and planter dynasty centered in Charleston.
-
B.
McClung family
The McClung family is a business-owning family best known for operating Ollie’s Barbecue, a Birmingham, Alabama restaurant that became central to a landmark U.S. civil rights and public accommodations case.
-
C.
Gadsden family
The Gadsden family was a prominent colonial-era family in South Carolina, influential in commerce and politics and associated with early American revolutionary leadership.
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D.
Lumpkin family
The Lumpkin family is a benefactor family recognized for its significant philanthropic contributions to education, including endowing the Lumpkin College of Business and Technology.
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E.
McCaslin family
The McCaslin family is a prominent fictional Southern dynasty in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, central to his explorations of race, inheritance, and the legacy of slavery.
- 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_69d86d99e860819094b6957cde470f2c |
completed | April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e04f6d71308190971c10c599da9645 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 2:54 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ff82f05d648190a0c73b60dc027287 |
completed | May 9, 2026, 6:54 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ff83b7a534819090e24491579376c3 |
completed | May 9, 2026, 6:57 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ff844fa00c8190a47eb46394db097b |
completed | May 9, 2026, 7 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:45 a.m.