Triple

T3697117
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jefferson, Mississippi E78484 entity
Predicate associatedWithCharacter P1481 FINISHED
Object Joe Christmas
Joe Christmas is the tormented, racially ambiguous protagonist of William Faulkner’s novel "Light in August," whose life and violent fate unfold in the fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi.
E380578 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: Joe Christmas | Statement: [Jefferson, Mississippi, associatedWithCharacter, Joe Christmas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joe Christmas
Context triple: [Jefferson, Mississippi, associatedWithCharacter, Joe Christmas]
  • A. Xaphoon Jones
    Xaphoon Jones is an American hip-hop producer best known as the co-founder and beatmaker of the duo Chiddy Bang.
  • B. Joe Trace
    Joe Trace is a middle-aged cosmetics salesman in Harlem whose passionate affair and its violent aftermath drive the intertwined stories of Toni Morrison’s novel "Jazz."
  • C. Enoch Snow
    Enoch Snow is a central character in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel," portrayed as an ambitious fisherman with strong moral values and comic earnestness.
  • D. Hazel Motes
    Hazel Motes is the tormented, anti-religious preacher at the center of Flannery O’Connor’s novel "Wise Blood," known for founding the nihilistic Church Without Christ.
  • E. Memphis Raines
    Memphis Raines is the master car thief protagonist of the 2000 action film "Gone in 60 Seconds," known for his high-speed heists and leadership of a skilled crew.
  • 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: Joe Christmas
Triple: [Jefferson, Mississippi, associatedWithCharacter, Joe Christmas]
Generated description
Joe Christmas is the tormented, racially ambiguous protagonist of William Faulkner’s novel "Light in August," whose life and violent fate unfold in the fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joe Christmas
Target entity description: Joe Christmas is the tormented, racially ambiguous protagonist of William Faulkner’s novel "Light in August," whose life and violent fate unfold in the fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi.
  • A. Xaphoon Jones
    Xaphoon Jones is an American hip-hop producer best known as the co-founder and beatmaker of the duo Chiddy Bang.
  • B. Joe Trace
    Joe Trace is a middle-aged cosmetics salesman in Harlem whose passionate affair and its violent aftermath drive the intertwined stories of Toni Morrison’s novel "Jazz."
  • C. Enoch Snow
    Enoch Snow is a central character in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel," portrayed as an ambitious fisherman with strong moral values and comic earnestness.
  • D. Hazel Motes
    Hazel Motes is the tormented, anti-religious preacher at the center of Flannery O’Connor’s novel "Wise Blood," known for founding the nihilistic Church Without Christ.
  • E. Memphis Raines
    Memphis Raines is the master car thief protagonist of the 2000 action film "Gone in 60 Seconds," known for his high-speed heists and leadership of a skilled crew.
  • 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_69ad85e3b1888190abc983e06968696d completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc5115ad8819085ffa938de3943f4 completed March 8, 2026, 6:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4c3dbb7fc81909df2e7a4755cce28 completed March 14, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4c7a89eac819090ce443784e1a326 completed March 14, 2026, 2:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4c88111c08190b0c275898437fdab completed March 14, 2026, 2:31 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:26 p.m.