Triple

T13618677
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Optimist’s Daughter E325391 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Laurel McKelva Hand
Laurel McKelva Hand is the introspective Southern woman at the center of Eudora Welty’s novel, whose return home to confront her father’s death forces her to reckon with memory, loss, and family legacy.
 E1051762 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: Laurel McKelva Hand | Statement: [The Optimist’s Daughter, mainCharacter, Laurel McKelva Hand]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Laurel McKelva Hand
Context triple: [The Optimist’s Daughter, mainCharacter, Laurel McKelva Hand]
  • A. Muriel McClure
    Muriel McClure was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning geneticist George W. Beadle.
  • B. Marie McKay
    Marie McKay was the wife of Austrian-American actor Joseph Schildkraut, a prominent performer of stage and early Hollywood cinema.
  • C. Anne MacKee
    Anne MacKee is a character from the long-running British science fiction series "Doctor Who," appearing in stories involving the Doctor.
  • D. Dorothy McIlwraith
    Dorothy McIlwraith was an American magazine editor best known for her influential mid-20th-century stewardship of the pulp fantasy and horror magazine Weird Tales.
  • E. Ellin Mackay
    Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
  • 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: Laurel McKelva Hand
Triple: [The Optimist’s Daughter, mainCharacter, Laurel McKelva Hand]
Generated description
Laurel McKelva Hand is the introspective Southern woman at the center of Eudora Welty’s novel, whose return home to confront her father’s death forces her to reckon with memory, loss, and family legacy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Laurel McKelva Hand
Target entity description: Laurel McKelva Hand is the introspective Southern woman at the center of Eudora Welty’s novel, whose return home to confront her father’s death forces her to reckon with memory, loss, and family legacy.
  • A. Muriel McClure
    Muriel McClure was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning geneticist George W. Beadle.
  • B. Marie McKay
    Marie McKay was the wife of Austrian-American actor Joseph Schildkraut, a prominent performer of stage and early Hollywood cinema.
  • C. Anne MacKee
    Anne MacKee is a character from the long-running British science fiction series "Doctor Who," appearing in stories involving the Doctor.
  • D. Dorothy McIlwraith
    Dorothy McIlwraith was an American magazine editor best known for her influential mid-20th-century stewardship of the pulp fantasy and horror magazine Weird Tales.
  • E. Ellin Mackay
    Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
  • 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_69d8076aae28819092cf636190ee5529 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbb0ae77e0819081e3b14642460dc6 completed April 12, 2026, 2:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f77fa0b81c819094e2fa209ef9857c completed May 3, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f783c24d088190ad53fa2d33a255c9 completed May 3, 2026, 5:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f78452e8bc8190a55f2be349fe718f completed May 3, 2026, 5:22 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:50 p.m.