Triple
T21447127
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Old People |
E529105
|
entity |
| Predicate | featuresCharacter |
P626
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Sam Fathers
Sam Fathers is a mixed-heritage Native American elder and mentor figure in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha stories, known for guiding young hunters and embodying a vanishing wilderness culture.
|
E1484905
|
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: Sam Fathers | Statement: [The Old People, featuresCharacter, Sam Fathers]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam Fathers Context triple: [The Old People, featuresCharacter, Sam Fathers]
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A.
Joe Farrow
Joe Farrow is a law enforcement official best known for leading the California Highway Patrol as its commissioner.
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B.
Mark Hudson
Mark Hudson is an American record producer, songwriter, and musician known for his work with major rock and pop artists, including Aerosmith and Ringo Starr.
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C.
Judd Buchanan
Judd Buchanan is a Canadian businessman and former Liberal politician who served as a federal cabinet minister in the 1970s.
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D.
James Dadford
James Dadford was a British civil engineer active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his work on canal construction during the early Industrial Revolution.
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E.
William Dear
William Dear is a Canadian film director and screenwriter known for directing movies such as "Harry and the Hendersons" and contributing to various family and adventure films.
- 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: Sam Fathers Triple: [The Old People, featuresCharacter, Sam Fathers]
Generated description
Sam Fathers is a mixed-heritage Native American elder and mentor figure in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha stories, known for guiding young hunters and embodying a vanishing wilderness culture.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam Fathers Target entity description: Sam Fathers is a mixed-heritage Native American elder and mentor figure in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha stories, known for guiding young hunters and embodying a vanishing wilderness culture.
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A.
Joe Farrow
Joe Farrow is a law enforcement official best known for leading the California Highway Patrol as its commissioner.
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B.
Mark Hudson
Mark Hudson is an American record producer, songwriter, and musician known for his work with major rock and pop artists, including Aerosmith and Ringo Starr.
-
C.
Judd Buchanan
Judd Buchanan is a Canadian businessman and former Liberal politician who served as a federal cabinet minister in the 1970s.
-
D.
James Dadford
James Dadford was a British civil engineer active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his work on canal construction during the early Industrial Revolution.
-
E.
William Dear
William Dear is a Canadian film director and screenwriter known for directing movies such as "Harry and the Hendersons" and contributing to various family and adventure films.
- 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_69e0c457579481909db68053ed99750c |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e9e9cea7bc81909ee3e1cdeda1fe7e |
completed | April 23, 2026, 9:43 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a09c9054e0c81908f13a2240c200b9e |
completed | May 17, 2026, 1:56 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a09c993004c81909cc0224947c178e0 |
completed | May 17, 2026, 1:58 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a09ca14cfcc81908565427b504d815e |
completed | May 17, 2026, 2 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:06 p.m.