Triple

T15700462
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joe Christmas E380578 entity
Predicate adoptiveMother P1909 FINISHED
Object Mrs. McEachern
Mrs. McEachern is the stern, deeply religious adoptive mother of Joe Christmas in William Faulkner’s novel "Light in August."
E1171968 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: Mrs. McEachern | Statement: [Joe Christmas, adoptiveMother, Mrs. McEachern]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mrs. McEachern
Context triple: [Joe Christmas, adoptiveMother, Mrs. McEachern]
  • A. Edith McGuire
    Edith McGuire is an American sprinter and Olympic gold medalist who rose to prominence in the 1960s as one of the world’s leading female track athletes.
  • B. Mrs. Haggett
    Mrs. Haggett is a central, socially ambitious matriarch in Sidney Howard’s play "The Late Christopher Bean," whose reactions to an unexpected artistic legacy drive much of the story’s comedy and conflict.
  • C. Mrs. Beakley
    Mrs. Beakley is a central character in the 2017 DuckTales reboot, portrayed as Scrooge McDuck’s highly capable housekeeper, Webby Vanderquack’s grandmother, and a former spy with formidable combat and intelligence skills.
  • D. Mrs. Newsome
    Mrs. Newsome is the mother of Chad Newsome, a character referenced in literary contexts where family relationships are central to the narrative.
  • E. Mrs. Newsome
    Mrs. Newsome is a wealthy, strong-willed New England matron in Henry James’s novel "The Ambassadors," who sends her fiancé Lambert Strether to Europe to retrieve her son from its perceived moral dangers.
  • 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: Mrs. McEachern
Triple: [Joe Christmas, adoptiveMother, Mrs. McEachern]
Generated description
Mrs. McEachern is the stern, deeply religious adoptive mother of Joe Christmas in William Faulkner’s novel "Light in August."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mrs. McEachern
Target entity description: Mrs. McEachern is the stern, deeply religious adoptive mother of Joe Christmas in William Faulkner’s novel "Light in August."
  • A. Edith McGuire
    Edith McGuire is an American sprinter and Olympic gold medalist who rose to prominence in the 1960s as one of the world’s leading female track athletes.
  • B. Mrs. Haggett
    Mrs. Haggett is a central, socially ambitious matriarch in Sidney Howard’s play "The Late Christopher Bean," whose reactions to an unexpected artistic legacy drive much of the story’s comedy and conflict.
  • C. Mrs. Beakley
    Mrs. Beakley is a central character in the 2017 DuckTales reboot, portrayed as Scrooge McDuck’s highly capable housekeeper, Webby Vanderquack’s grandmother, and a former spy with formidable combat and intelligence skills.
  • D. Mrs. Newsome
    Mrs. Newsome is the mother of Chad Newsome, a character referenced in literary contexts where family relationships are central to the narrative.
  • E. Mrs. Newsome
    Mrs. Newsome is a wealthy, strong-willed New England matron in Henry James’s novel "The Ambassadors," who sends her fiancé Lambert Strether to Europe to retrieve her son from its perceived moral dangers.
  • 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_69ff75756ecc8190bd2123ddfd080fd1 completed May 9, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff763d40348190bf102da746420390 completed May 9, 2026, 6 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff76ec45948190bee47609c0d2fd10 completed May 9, 2026, 6:03 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:45 a.m.