Triple

T3632769
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject As I Lay Dying E76994 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Vernon Tull
Vernon Tull is a practical, somewhat opportunistic neighboring farmer in William Faulkner’s novel "As I Lay Dying," often serving as a foil to the Bundren family’s dysfunction.
 E397924 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: Vernon Tull | Statement: [As I Lay Dying, hasCharacter, Vernon Tull]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Vernon Tull
Context triple: [As I Lay Dying, hasCharacter, Vernon Tull]
  • A. Robert Vaught
    Robert Vaught was an American logician and mathematician known for his influential work in model theory and mathematical logic.
  • B. Roy McGivern
    Roy McGivern is a Northern Irish football administrator best known for serving as chairman of Linfield FC, one of the country’s most successful and historic clubs.
  • C. Bill Reeves
    Bill Reeves is a pioneering computer graphics researcher and animator best known for his influential work at Pixar, where he helped develop groundbreaking rendering and animation techniques.
  • D. Vernon Hartshorn
    Vernon Hartshorn was a prominent Welsh trade unionist and Labour politician who served as a Member of Parliament and held ministerial office in early 20th-century Britain.
  • E. Charles Roane
    Charles Roane is a music producer known for his work on the album "Back to Basics."
  • 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: Vernon Tull
Triple: [As I Lay Dying, hasCharacter, Vernon Tull]
Generated description
Vernon Tull is a practical, somewhat opportunistic neighboring farmer in William Faulkner’s novel "As I Lay Dying," often serving as a foil to the Bundren family’s dysfunction.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Vernon Tull
Target entity description: Vernon Tull is a practical, somewhat opportunistic neighboring farmer in William Faulkner’s novel "As I Lay Dying," often serving as a foil to the Bundren family’s dysfunction.
  • A. Robert Vaught
    Robert Vaught was an American logician and mathematician known for his influential work in model theory and mathematical logic.
  • B. Roy McGivern
    Roy McGivern is a Northern Irish football administrator best known for serving as chairman of Linfield FC, one of the country’s most successful and historic clubs.
  • C. Bill Reeves
    Bill Reeves is a pioneering computer graphics researcher and animator best known for his influential work at Pixar, where he helped develop groundbreaking rendering and animation techniques.
  • D. Vernon Hartshorn
    Vernon Hartshorn was a prominent Welsh trade unionist and Labour politician who served as a Member of Parliament and held ministerial office in early 20th-century Britain.
  • E. Charles Roane
    Charles Roane is a music producer known for his work on the album "Back to Basics."
  • 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_69ad85dd0be48190b738990cb20c4731 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc30457608190840fb5b33f9965c4 completed March 8, 2026, 6:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b51c6559c88190a0ae63d0f05d5d75 completed March 14, 2026, 8:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5203ee2d88190b3bf401c77d05853 completed March 14, 2026, 8:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b520bcf1748190b252f913f2750d17 completed March 14, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:23 p.m.