Triple

T5587425
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Reivers E146789 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Ned McCaslin
Ned McCaslin is a supporting character in William Faulkner’s novel "The Reivers," involved in the comic misadventures surrounding a stolen car and a trip from Mississippi to Memphis.
E536336 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: Ned McCaslin | Statement: [The Reivers, featuresCharacter, Ned McCaslin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ned McCaslin
Context triple: [The Reivers, featuresCharacter, Ned McCaslin]
  • A. Ned Washington
    Ned Washington was an American lyricist renowned for his work on classic film songs and popular standards in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Isaac McCaslin
    Isaac McCaslin is a central character in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha saga, best known as the morally reflective heir who grapples with his family’s legacy of slavery and land ownership in the novel "Go Down, Moses."
  • C. Slimm Calhoun
    Slimm Calhoun is an American rapper from Atlanta best known for his work with the Dungeon Family collective and his early-2000s solo material.
  • D. Taylor Dooley
    Taylor Dooley is an American actress best known for playing Lavagirl in the family adventure film "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D."
  • E. Jack Gladney
    Jack Gladney is the middle-aged, anxiety-ridden professor who founded the academic field of Hitler studies and narrates Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise."
  • 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: Ned McCaslin
Triple: [The Reivers, featuresCharacter, Ned McCaslin]
Generated description
Ned McCaslin is a supporting character in William Faulkner’s novel "The Reivers," involved in the comic misadventures surrounding a stolen car and a trip from Mississippi to Memphis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ned McCaslin
Target entity description: Ned McCaslin is a supporting character in William Faulkner’s novel "The Reivers," involved in the comic misadventures surrounding a stolen car and a trip from Mississippi to Memphis.
  • A. Ned Washington
    Ned Washington was an American lyricist renowned for his work on classic film songs and popular standards in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Isaac McCaslin
    Isaac McCaslin is a central character in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha saga, best known as the morally reflective heir who grapples with his family’s legacy of slavery and land ownership in the novel "Go Down, Moses."
  • C. Slimm Calhoun
    Slimm Calhoun is an American rapper from Atlanta best known for his work with the Dungeon Family collective and his early-2000s solo material.
  • D. Taylor Dooley
    Taylor Dooley is an American actress best known for playing Lavagirl in the family adventure film "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D."
  • E. Jack Gladney
    Jack Gladney is the middle-aged, anxiety-ridden professor who founded the academic field of Hitler studies and narrates Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise."
  • 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_69c04d2f8710819094f5d052b767b9a6 completed March 22, 2026, 8:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c04e879a8c8190942968982223f6e4 completed March 22, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c04f3c31b48190aeefd41bea55d367 completed March 22, 2026, 8:21 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:38 p.m.