Triple

T15621846
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Flags in the Dust E375575 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Colonel John Sartoris
Colonel John Sartoris is a recurring William Faulkner character, a Confederate officer and patriarch of the Sartoris family who embodies the Old South’s honor, violence, and fading aristocratic values.
E1169261 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: Colonel John Sartoris | Statement: [Flags in the Dust, featuresCharacter, Colonel John Sartoris]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel John Sartoris
Context triple: [Flags in the Dust, featuresCharacter, Colonel John Sartoris]
  • A. Bayard Sartoris
    Bayard Sartoris is a recurring member of the Sartoris family in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, often embodying themes of Southern honor, decay, and the burden of family legacy.
  • B. William Barksdale
    William Barksdale was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, noted for his aggressive leadership and prominent role in major battles such as Gettysburg.
  • C. Beauregard Decker
    Beauregard Decker is a fictional character from the stage play "Bus Stop," typically portrayed as a central figure whose interactions drive much of the drama and humor in the story.
  • D. Colonel Crittendon
    Colonel Crittendon is a bumbling, overconfident British officer character from the World War II sitcom "Hogan's Heroes," known for repeatedly disrupting the protagonists' covert operations.
  • E. Walker K. Harmon
    Walker K. Harmon was a U.S. military officer who commanded Allied forces during the World War II Battle of San Pietro Infine in Italy.
  • 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: Colonel John Sartoris
Triple: [Flags in the Dust, featuresCharacter, Colonel John Sartoris]
Generated description
Colonel John Sartoris is a recurring William Faulkner character, a Confederate officer and patriarch of the Sartoris family who embodies the Old South’s honor, violence, and fading aristocratic values.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel John Sartoris
Target entity description: Colonel John Sartoris is a recurring William Faulkner character, a Confederate officer and patriarch of the Sartoris family who embodies the Old South’s honor, violence, and fading aristocratic values.
  • A. Bayard Sartoris
    Bayard Sartoris is a recurring member of the Sartoris family in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, often embodying themes of Southern honor, decay, and the burden of family legacy.
  • B. William Barksdale
    William Barksdale was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, noted for his aggressive leadership and prominent role in major battles such as Gettysburg.
  • C. Beauregard Decker
    Beauregard Decker is a fictional character from the stage play "Bus Stop," typically portrayed as a central figure whose interactions drive much of the drama and humor in the story.
  • D. Colonel Crittendon
    Colonel Crittendon is a bumbling, overconfident British officer character from the World War II sitcom "Hogan's Heroes," known for repeatedly disrupting the protagonists' covert operations.
  • E. Walker K. Harmon
    Walker K. Harmon was a U.S. military officer who commanded Allied forces during the World War II Battle of San Pietro Infine in Italy.
  • 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_69d85ccf2794819096cda4cbcb02d478 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04e9a95f08190b0013ba1428849d3 completed April 16, 2026, 2:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff678a9fac81908030726054ff5a99 completed May 9, 2026, 4:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff6883b5048190b64e4361bc89dd80 completed May 9, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff6911a76c819088c8a86d2106b6c6 completed May 9, 2026, 5:04 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:13 a.m.