Triple

T1269204
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Faulkner E15670 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Light in August
Light in August is a 1932 novel by William Faulkner that interweaves the lives of several characters in the American South to explore themes of identity, race, and moral decay.
E145072 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: Light in August | Statement: [William Faulkner, notableWork, Light in August]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Light in August
Context triple: [William Faulkner, notableWork, Light in August]
  • A. Look Homeward, Angel
    Look Homeward, Angel is Thomas Wolfe’s acclaimed 1929 coming-of-age novel that follows the turbulent youth of Eugene Gant in a fictionalized North Carolina town.
  • B. Intruder in the Dust
    Intruder in the Dust is a 1949 film adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel, notable as a socially conscious crime drama addressing racism in the American South.
  • C. Their Eyes Were Watching God
    Their Eyes Were Watching God is a seminal 1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston that follows the life and self-discovery of Janie Crawford in the early 20th-century American South.
  • D. Going to Meet the Man
    Going to Meet the Man is a 1965 short story collection by James Baldwin that explores themes of race, violence, sexuality, and power in mid-20th-century America.
  • E. The Sound and the Fury
    The Sound and the Fury is a landmark modernist novel by William Faulkner, renowned for its experimental narrative structure and stream-of-consciousness portrayal of the declining Compson family in the American South.
  • 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: Light in August
Triple: [William Faulkner, notableWork, Light in August]
Generated description
Light in August is a 1932 novel by William Faulkner that interweaves the lives of several characters in the American South to explore themes of identity, race, and moral decay.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Light in August
Target entity description: Light in August is a 1932 novel by William Faulkner that interweaves the lives of several characters in the American South to explore themes of identity, race, and moral decay.
  • A. Look Homeward, Angel
    Look Homeward, Angel is Thomas Wolfe’s acclaimed 1929 coming-of-age novel that follows the turbulent youth of Eugene Gant in a fictionalized North Carolina town.
  • B. Intruder in the Dust
    Intruder in the Dust is a 1949 film adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel, notable as a socially conscious crime drama addressing racism in the American South.
  • C. Their Eyes Were Watching God
    Their Eyes Were Watching God is a seminal 1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston that follows the life and self-discovery of Janie Crawford in the early 20th-century American South.
  • D. Going to Meet the Man
    Going to Meet the Man is a 1965 short story collection by James Baldwin that explores themes of race, violence, sexuality, and power in mid-20th-century America.
  • E. The Sound and the Fury
    The Sound and the Fury is a landmark modernist novel by William Faulkner, renowned for its experimental narrative structure and stream-of-consciousness portrayal of the declining Compson family in the American South.
  • 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_69a4935a94308190bb92555b79032824 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c03aaa8c8190bacb7de5a38329da completed March 1, 2026, 10:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac99898bdc8190bbbe28083b4a548b completed March 7, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac9abcc2ec8190acdec5d7cbf42b42 completed March 7, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac9b1ea9c48190ad1520f2f67111dd completed March 7, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.