Triple

T12522754
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Reflections in a Golden Eye E299358 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Major Weldon Penderton
Major Weldon Penderton is a repressed, emotionally tormented army officer whose inner conflicts and obsessions drive much of the psychological drama in Carson McCullers’ novel "Reflections in a Golden Eye."
E986608 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: Major Weldon Penderton | Statement: [Reflections in a Golden Eye, character, Major Weldon Penderton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major Weldon Penderton
Context triple: [Reflections in a Golden Eye, character, Major Weldon Penderton]
  • A. Gideon J. Pillow
    Gideon J. Pillow was a controversial American lawyer, politician, and general who served in both the Mexican–American War and the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
  • B. William J. Hardee
    William J. Hardee was a career U.S. Army officer and later Confederate lieutenant general best known for authoring a widely used infantry tactics manual before and during the American Civil War.
  • C. Henry Heth
    Henry Heth was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, best known for commanding a division in the Army of Northern Virginia and for initiating the first day’s fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • D. Patrick Cleburne
    Patrick Cleburne was an Irish-born Confederate major general in the American Civil War, renowned for his tactical skill and his controversial proposal to arm enslaved people in exchange for their freedom.
  • E. Winfield S. Cunningham
    Winfield S. Cunningham was a U.S. Navy officer best known for leading the outnumbered American defense of Wake Island against Japanese forces early in World War II.
  • 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: Major Weldon Penderton
Triple: [Reflections in a Golden Eye, character, Major Weldon Penderton]
Generated description
Major Weldon Penderton is a repressed, emotionally tormented army officer whose inner conflicts and obsessions drive much of the psychological drama in Carson McCullers’ novel "Reflections in a Golden Eye."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major Weldon Penderton
Target entity description: Major Weldon Penderton is a repressed, emotionally tormented army officer whose inner conflicts and obsessions drive much of the psychological drama in Carson McCullers’ novel "Reflections in a Golden Eye."
  • A. Gideon J. Pillow
    Gideon J. Pillow was a controversial American lawyer, politician, and general who served in both the Mexican–American War and the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
  • B. William J. Hardee
    William J. Hardee was a career U.S. Army officer and later Confederate lieutenant general best known for authoring a widely used infantry tactics manual before and during the American Civil War.
  • C. Henry Heth
    Henry Heth was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, best known for commanding a division in the Army of Northern Virginia and for initiating the first day’s fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • D. Patrick Cleburne
    Patrick Cleburne was an Irish-born Confederate major general in the American Civil War, renowned for his tactical skill and his controversial proposal to arm enslaved people in exchange for their freedom.
  • E. Winfield S. Cunningham
    Winfield S. Cunningham was a U.S. Navy officer best known for leading the outnumbered American defense of Wake Island against Japanese forces early in World War II.
  • 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_69d6ada5cdd48190860d9ce30aff69be completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9545c2aa081908e8a5a94d30e23eb completed April 10, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f64bc159c88190835fea5c0d9ee799 completed May 2, 2026, 7:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f64def9a6081908c3048f948829051 completed May 2, 2026, 7:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f64ea1719c8190b91ffaab60db25ad completed May 2, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:57 p.m.