Triple

T5587344
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Absalom, Absalom! E146787 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object General Compson
General Compson is a minor but symbolically important figure in William Faulkner’s Southern Gothic universe, representing the decaying aristocratic values and haunted memory of the post–Civil War American South.
 E528786 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: General Compson | Statement: [Absalom, Absalom!, featuresCharacter, General Compson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: General Compson
Context triple: [Absalom, Absalom!, featuresCharacter, General Compson]
  • A. Jason Compson II
    Jason Compson II is a central patriarchal figure in William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury," representing the decaying Southern aristocracy of the Compson family.
  • B. Jason Compson IV
    Jason Compson IV is a bitter, cruel, and materialistic member of the Compson family in William Faulkner’s fiction, embodying the moral and emotional decay of the Southern aristocracy.
  • C. Jason Compson III
    Jason Compson III is a central character in William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury," depicted as the embittered, alcoholic head of the declining Compson family in the American South.
  • D. Compson family
    The Compson family is a fictional Southern aristocratic family at the center of William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury," emblematic of moral and social decline in the post–Civil War American South.
  • E. Mr. Jason Compson III
    Mr. Jason Compson III is a bitter, cynical, and financially obsessed member of the Compson family in William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury," embodying the decay and moral corruption of the Southern aristocracy.
  • 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: General Compson
Triple: [Absalom, Absalom!, featuresCharacter, General Compson]
Generated description
General Compson is a minor but symbolically important figure in William Faulkner’s Southern Gothic universe, representing the decaying aristocratic values and haunted memory of the post–Civil War American South.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: General Compson
Target entity description: General Compson is a minor but symbolically important figure in William Faulkner’s Southern Gothic universe, representing the decaying aristocratic values and haunted memory of the post–Civil War American South.
  • A. Jason Compson II
    Jason Compson II is a central patriarchal figure in William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury," representing the decaying Southern aristocracy of the Compson family.
  • B. Jason Compson IV
    Jason Compson IV is a bitter, cruel, and materialistic member of the Compson family in William Faulkner’s fiction, embodying the moral and emotional decay of the Southern aristocracy.
  • C. Jason Compson III
    Jason Compson III is a central character in William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury," depicted as the embittered, alcoholic head of the declining Compson family in the American South.
  • D. Compson family
    The Compson family is a fictional Southern aristocratic family at the center of William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury," emblematic of moral and social decline in the post–Civil War American South.
  • E. Mr. Jason Compson III
    Mr. Jason Compson III is a bitter, cynical, and financially obsessed member of the Compson family in William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury," embodying the decay and moral corruption of the Southern aristocracy.
  • 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_69c009036c408190981a8d690b679b67 completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0209d713081908b39ee8befb2faf7 completed March 22, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0286558b48190a8907c06111a48f3 completed March 22, 2026, 5:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0350eb53081909dc573fefa3e7f0a completed March 22, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c036ee4e1c8190b9e60655d72407ff completed March 22, 2026, 6:37 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:38 p.m.