Triple

T21435352
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Barn Burning E528792 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Lennie Snopes
Lennie Snopes is a central figure in William Faulkner’s short story “Barn Burning,” representing the conflicted loyalty and moral awakening of a boy torn between his family and his own emerging sense of justice.
E1484266 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: Lennie Snopes | Statement: [Barn Burning, mainCharacter, Lennie Snopes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lennie Snopes
Context triple: [Barn Burning, mainCharacter, Lennie Snopes]
  • A. Lennie Small
    Lennie Small is a large, mentally disabled migrant ranch worker whose childlike innocence and unintentional violence drive the central tragedy of John Steinbeck’s novella "Of Mice and Men."
  • B. Lennie
    Lennie is a common diminutive form of the given name Leonard, often used as a familiar or affectionate nickname.
  • C. Grampa Joad
    Grampa Joad is the cantankerous, hard-drinking patriarch of the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
  • D. Tom Joad
    Tom Joad is the central, morally driven migrant worker in John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath," symbolizing social justice and the struggles of the American Dust Bowl era.
  • E. Joad
    Joad is the surname of the central Dust Bowl migrant family in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
  • 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: Lennie Snopes
Triple: [Barn Burning, mainCharacter, Lennie Snopes]
Generated description
Lennie Snopes is a central figure in William Faulkner’s short story “Barn Burning,” representing the conflicted loyalty and moral awakening of a boy torn between his family and his own emerging sense of justice.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lennie Snopes
Target entity description: Lennie Snopes is a central figure in William Faulkner’s short story “Barn Burning,” representing the conflicted loyalty and moral awakening of a boy torn between his family and his own emerging sense of justice.
  • A. Lennie Small
    Lennie Small is a large, mentally disabled migrant ranch worker whose childlike innocence and unintentional violence drive the central tragedy of John Steinbeck’s novella "Of Mice and Men."
  • B. Lennie
    Lennie is a common diminutive form of the given name Leonard, often used as a familiar or affectionate nickname.
  • C. Grampa Joad
    Grampa Joad is the cantankerous, hard-drinking patriarch of the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
  • D. Tom Joad
    Tom Joad is the central, morally driven migrant worker in John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath," symbolizing social justice and the struggles of the American Dust Bowl era.
  • E. Joad
    Joad is the surname of the central Dust Bowl migrant family in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
  • 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_69e0c4569fa081908101baa24f8745db completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e8b536274c8190809bd3cdf4ef899e completed April 22, 2026, 11:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09c8fb4e108190ab7531f9b8a757da completed May 17, 2026, 1:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09c9dd8b048190bbd7c0364613ad0e completed May 17, 2026, 1:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09ca559f88819087c13d885e66d67a completed May 17, 2026, 2:01 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:02 p.m.