Triple

T8684981
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Mask of Dimitrios E206134 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object William Faulkner
William Faulkner was an American Nobel Prize–winning novelist and short story writer renowned for his innovative narrative techniques and depictions of the American South.
E15670 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: William Faulkner | Statement: [The Mask of Dimitrios, screenwriter, William Faulkner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Faulkner
Context triple: [The Mask of Dimitrios, screenwriter, William Faulkner]
  • A. William Faulkner
    William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize–winning American novelist and short-story writer renowned for his complex narratives and pioneering use of stream of consciousness, particularly in works set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
  • B. Samuel Faulkner
    Samuel Faulkner is the commitment-phobic child psychologist protagonist of the romantic comedy film "Nine Months," whose life is upended when his girlfriend becomes pregnant.
  • C. Eudora Welty
    Eudora Welty was an American author known for her richly detailed short stories and novels set in the American South, often blending Southern Gothic elements with keen psychological insight and a strong sense of place.
  • D. Walter Van Tilburg Clark
    Walter Van Tilburg Clark was an American author best known for his classic Western novel "The Ox-Bow Incident," which explores themes of mob justice and moral responsibility.
  • E. Carson McCullers
    Carson McCullers was an American novelist and short story writer known for her haunting explorations of loneliness, identity, and the human condition in the mid-20th-century American South.
  • 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: William Faulkner
Triple: [The Mask of Dimitrios, screenwriter, William Faulkner]
Generated description
William Faulkner was an American Nobel Prize–winning novelist and short story writer renowned for his innovative narrative techniques and depictions of the American South.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Faulkner
Target entity description: William Faulkner was an American Nobel Prize–winning novelist and short story writer renowned for his innovative narrative techniques and depictions of the American South.
  • A. William Faulkner chosen
    William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize–winning American novelist and short-story writer renowned for his complex narratives and pioneering use of stream of consciousness, particularly in works set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
  • B. Samuel Faulkner
    Samuel Faulkner is the commitment-phobic child psychologist protagonist of the romantic comedy film "Nine Months," whose life is upended when his girlfriend becomes pregnant.
  • C. Eudora Welty
    Eudora Welty was an American author known for her richly detailed short stories and novels set in the American South, often blending Southern Gothic elements with keen psychological insight and a strong sense of place.
  • D. Walter Van Tilburg Clark
    Walter Van Tilburg Clark was an American author best known for his classic Western novel "The Ox-Bow Incident," which explores themes of mob justice and moral responsibility.
  • E. Carson McCullers
    Carson McCullers was an American novelist and short story writer known for her haunting explorations of loneliness, identity, and the human condition in the mid-20th-century American South.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ca835379688190aa06b9d98e684d58 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc4aeae740819099093906ccc5f640 completed March 31, 2026, 10:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cef3c3c74c81908cd9e881d5963492 completed April 2, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cef521010081908815779c0bd2aac9 completed April 2, 2026, 11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cef727ea088190bf40eaf5424ae864 completed April 2, 2026, 11:09 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:32 p.m.