Triple

T21447250
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Isaac McCaslin E529108 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object McCaslin
McCaslin is a surname most notably associated with Isaac McCaslin, a central character in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County stories.
 E1484908 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: McCaslin | Statement: [Isaac McCaslin, familyName, McCaslin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: McCaslin
Context triple: [Isaac McCaslin, familyName, McCaslin]
  • A. Swayne
    Swayne is a surname most notably associated with Noah H. Swayne, a 19th-century U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
  • B. MacAuliffe
    MacAuliffe is a surname, a spelling variant of McAuliffe, of Irish origin.
  • C. McClanahan
    McClanahan is the surname of Rue McClanahan, the American actress best known for playing Blanche Devereaux on the television series "The Golden Girls."
  • D. Bayard
    Bayard is a masculine given name most notably associated with civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
  • E. Bayard
    Bayard is a small town in Grant County, West Virginia, known historically as a coal and timber community in the Appalachian region.
  • 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: McCaslin
Triple: [Isaac McCaslin, familyName, McCaslin]
Generated description
McCaslin is a surname most notably associated with Isaac McCaslin, a central character in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County stories.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: McCaslin
Target entity description: McCaslin is a surname most notably associated with Isaac McCaslin, a central character in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County stories.
  • A. Swayne
    Swayne is a surname most notably associated with Noah H. Swayne, a 19th-century U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
  • B. MacAuliffe
    MacAuliffe is a surname, a spelling variant of McAuliffe, of Irish origin.
  • C. McClanahan
    McClanahan is the surname of Rue McClanahan, the American actress best known for playing Blanche Devereaux on the television series "The Golden Girls."
  • D. Bayard
    Bayard is a masculine given name most notably associated with civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
  • E. Bayard
    Bayard is a small town in Grant County, West Virginia, known historically as a coal and timber community in the Appalachian region.
  • 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_69e9e9d04548819086594c20faa5217d 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.