Triple

T5532255
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Hamlet E145075 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object V. K. Ratliff
V. K. Ratliff is a shrewd, observant sewing-machine salesman who serves as a central moral and narrative voice in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County stories.
 E542301 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: V. K. Ratliff | Statement: [The Hamlet, featuresCharacter, V. K. Ratliff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: V. K. Ratliff
Context triple: [The Hamlet, featuresCharacter, V. K. Ratliff]
  • A. J. L. Chestnut
    J. L. Chestnut was a prominent civil rights attorney and activist from Alabama, known for his legal work challenging racial segregation and discrimination in the American South.
  • B. James L. Wilmeth
    James L. Wilmeth was an American government official who served as a senior federal financial administrator in the early 20th century.
  • C. H. M. Woodard
    H. M. Woodard was the father of Academy Award–winning American character actress Jane Darwell.
  • D. R. C. Buford
    R. C. Buford is a highly respected NBA executive best known for architecting the San Antonio Spurs’ long-term success and multiple championship teams.
  • E. Philip M. Landrum
    Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
  • 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: V. K. Ratliff
Triple: [The Hamlet, featuresCharacter, V. K. Ratliff]
Generated description
V. K. Ratliff is a shrewd, observant sewing-machine salesman who serves as a central moral and narrative voice in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County stories.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: V. K. Ratliff
Target entity description: V. K. Ratliff is a shrewd, observant sewing-machine salesman who serves as a central moral and narrative voice in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County stories.
  • A. J. L. Chestnut
    J. L. Chestnut was a prominent civil rights attorney and activist from Alabama, known for his legal work challenging racial segregation and discrimination in the American South.
  • B. James L. Wilmeth
    James L. Wilmeth was an American government official who served as a senior federal financial administrator in the early 20th century.
  • C. H. M. Woodard
    H. M. Woodard was the father of Academy Award–winning American character actress Jane Darwell.
  • D. R. C. Buford
    R. C. Buford is a highly respected NBA executive best known for architecting the San Antonio Spurs’ long-term success and multiple championship teams.
  • E. Philip M. Landrum
    Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
  • 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_69c008f9955881909bfa8348b56b4739 completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c01f9d17ec8190b93b12931a4c1b33 completed March 22, 2026, 4:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c059db45188190b2d1ae2e2b900f91 completed March 22, 2026, 9:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c05be7f7cc8190bb1f8081289c5e02 completed March 22, 2026, 9:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c06209c3588190a6ededf9c198d5c5 completed March 22, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:34 p.m.