Triple

T15622095
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sartoris family E375580 entity
Predicate firstAppearance P795 FINISHED
Object Sartoris (cut version of Flags in the Dust)
Sartoris is William Faulkner’s early Yoknapatawpha County novel, a heavily cut version of his original manuscript Flags in the Dust that introduces the decaying aristocratic Sartoris family in post–Civil War Mississippi.
E1167918 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: Sartoris (cut version of Flags in the Dust) | Statement: [Sartoris family, firstAppearance, Sartoris (cut version of Flags in the Dust)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sartoris (cut version of Flags in the Dust)
Context triple: [Sartoris family, firstAppearance, Sartoris (cut version of Flags in the Dust)]
  • A. A Letter from the South
    "A Letter from the South" is an essay by James Baldwin that reflects on race, history, and the Black experience in the American South.
  • B. The Portable Faulkner
    The Portable Faulkner is a 1946 anthology edited by Malcolm Cowley that presents a curated selection of William Faulkner’s fiction, helping to establish his reputation and highlight the interconnected world of his Yoknapatawpha County stories.
  • C. Martenville’s Man in Black
    Martenville’s Man in Black is an alias of Randall Flagg, the recurring dark sorcerer and embodiment of chaos in Stephen King’s interconnected universe.
  • D. No One Writes to the Colonel
    No One Writes to the Colonel is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez that portrays an aging, impoverished colonel’s quiet hope and dignity as he waits in vain for a long-promised government pension.
  • E. The Onion Field (book)
    "The Onion Field" is a true-crime book by Joseph Wambaugh that recounts the 1963 kidnapping of two Los Angeles police officers and the murder of one of them in a Kern County onion field, exploring the psychological aftermath and legal fallout of the crime.
  • 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: Sartoris (cut version of Flags in the Dust)
Triple: [Sartoris family, firstAppearance, Sartoris (cut version of Flags in the Dust)]
Generated description
Sartoris is William Faulkner’s early Yoknapatawpha County novel, a heavily cut version of his original manuscript Flags in the Dust that introduces the decaying aristocratic Sartoris family in post–Civil War Mississippi.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sartoris (cut version of Flags in the Dust)
Target entity description: Sartoris is William Faulkner’s early Yoknapatawpha County novel, a heavily cut version of his original manuscript Flags in the Dust that introduces the decaying aristocratic Sartoris family in post–Civil War Mississippi.
  • A. A Letter from the South
    "A Letter from the South" is an essay by James Baldwin that reflects on race, history, and the Black experience in the American South.
  • B. The Portable Faulkner
    The Portable Faulkner is a 1946 anthology edited by Malcolm Cowley that presents a curated selection of William Faulkner’s fiction, helping to establish his reputation and highlight the interconnected world of his Yoknapatawpha County stories.
  • C. Martenville’s Man in Black
    Martenville’s Man in Black is an alias of Randall Flagg, the recurring dark sorcerer and embodiment of chaos in Stephen King’s interconnected universe.
  • D. No One Writes to the Colonel
    No One Writes to the Colonel is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez that portrays an aging, impoverished colonel’s quiet hope and dignity as he waits in vain for a long-promised government pension.
  • E. The Onion Field (book)
    "The Onion Field" is a true-crime book by Joseph Wambaugh that recounts the 1963 kidnapping of two Los Angeles police officers and the murder of one of them in a Kern County onion field, exploring the psychological aftermath and legal fallout of the crime.
  • 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_69ff5f3da754819085a6bd9876b12c65 completed May 9, 2026, 4:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff605d94308190bccbfb4588f337e1 completed May 9, 2026, 4:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff612340748190987e567e43460f62 completed May 9, 2026, 4:30 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:14 a.m.