Triple

T5587346
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Absalom, Absalom! E146787 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Mr. Coldfield
Mr. Coldfield is a morally rigid, deeply religious Jefferson merchant in William Faulkner’s "Absalom, Absalom!" whose stern principles and withdrawal from society reflect the novel’s themes of guilt, complicity, and Southern decay.
E528787 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: Mr. Coldfield | Statement: [Absalom, Absalom!, featuresCharacter, Mr. Coldfield]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mr. Coldfield
Context triple: [Absalom, Absalom!, featuresCharacter, Mr. Coldfield]
  • A. Mr. Bedford
    Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
  • B. Henry Burden
    Henry Burden was a 19th-century Scottish-American industrialist and inventor known for revolutionizing iron manufacturing, particularly through his patented horseshoe machine and development of the Burden Iron Works in Troy, New York.
  • C. Mr. Grimsdale
    Mr. Grimsdale is a comic supporting character in the British film "The Square Peg," known as the long-suffering boss and foil to Norman Wisdom’s bumbling protagonist.
  • D. Mr. Harling
    Mr. Harling is a prosperous, energetic merchant and the head of the Harling family in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known for his strict yet fundamentally kind-hearted nature.
  • E. Jervis Langdon
    Jervis Langdon was a wealthy 19th-century American coal businessman and abolitionist from Elmira, New York, best known as the father of Olivia Langdon Clemens, the wife of author Mark Twain.
  • 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: Mr. Coldfield
Triple: [Absalom, Absalom!, featuresCharacter, Mr. Coldfield]
Generated description
Mr. Coldfield is a morally rigid, deeply religious Jefferson merchant in William Faulkner’s "Absalom, Absalom!" whose stern principles and withdrawal from society reflect the novel’s themes of guilt, complicity, and Southern decay.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mr. Coldfield
Target entity description: Mr. Coldfield is a morally rigid, deeply religious Jefferson merchant in William Faulkner’s "Absalom, Absalom!" whose stern principles and withdrawal from society reflect the novel’s themes of guilt, complicity, and Southern decay.
  • A. Mr. Bedford
    Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
  • B. Henry Burden
    Henry Burden was a 19th-century Scottish-American industrialist and inventor known for revolutionizing iron manufacturing, particularly through his patented horseshoe machine and development of the Burden Iron Works in Troy, New York.
  • C. Mr. Grimsdale
    Mr. Grimsdale is a comic supporting character in the British film "The Square Peg," known as the long-suffering boss and foil to Norman Wisdom’s bumbling protagonist.
  • D. Mr. Harling
    Mr. Harling is a prosperous, energetic merchant and the head of the Harling family in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known for his strict yet fundamentally kind-hearted nature.
  • E. Jervis Langdon
    Jervis Langdon was a wealthy 19th-century American coal businessman and abolitionist from Elmira, New York, best known as the father of Olivia Langdon Clemens, the wife of author Mark Twain.
  • 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.