Triple

T15621983
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Snopes family E375578 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object Ab Snopes
Ab Snopes is a recurring character in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County stories, often depicted as a poor, resentful sharecropper and arsonist whose actions embody themes of class conflict and moral corruption.
E1169262 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: Ab Snopes | Statement: [Snopes family, hasMember, Ab Snopes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ab Snopes
Context triple: [Snopes family, hasMember, Ab Snopes]
  • A. Flem Snopes
    Flem Snopes is a cunning, opportunistic antihero in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, known for his ruthless social climbing and moral ambiguity.
  • B. Darl Bundren
    Darl Bundren is a central, introspective and increasingly unstable member of the Bundren family in William Faulkner’s novel *As I Lay Dying*, known for his fragmented narration and eventual descent into madness.
  • C. Stepin Fetchit
    Stepin Fetchit was the stage name of Lincoln Perry, an American actor and comedian known as Hollywood’s first Black film star, whose career was marked by controversy over his portrayal of racist stereotypes.
  • D. Addie Bundren
    Addie Bundren is the deceased matriarch of the Bundren family in William Faulkner’s Southern Gothic novel, whose death and complex inner life drive the story’s exploration of identity, suffering, and family.
  • E. Linda Snopes
    Linda Snopes is a central character in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, known as a member of the Snopes family whose life reflects the social and moral upheavals of 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: Ab Snopes
Triple: [Snopes family, hasMember, Ab Snopes]
Generated description
Ab Snopes is a recurring character in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County stories, often depicted as a poor, resentful sharecropper and arsonist whose actions embody themes of class conflict and moral corruption.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ab Snopes
Target entity description: Ab Snopes is a recurring character in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County stories, often depicted as a poor, resentful sharecropper and arsonist whose actions embody themes of class conflict and moral corruption.
  • A. Flem Snopes
    Flem Snopes is a cunning, opportunistic antihero in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, known for his ruthless social climbing and moral ambiguity.
  • B. Darl Bundren
    Darl Bundren is a central, introspective and increasingly unstable member of the Bundren family in William Faulkner’s novel *As I Lay Dying*, known for his fragmented narration and eventual descent into madness.
  • C. Stepin Fetchit
    Stepin Fetchit was the stage name of Lincoln Perry, an American actor and comedian known as Hollywood’s first Black film star, whose career was marked by controversy over his portrayal of racist stereotypes.
  • D. Addie Bundren
    Addie Bundren is the deceased matriarch of the Bundren family in William Faulkner’s Southern Gothic novel, whose death and complex inner life drive the story’s exploration of identity, suffering, and family.
  • E. Linda Snopes
    Linda Snopes is a central character in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, known as a member of the Snopes family whose life reflects the social and moral upheavals of 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_69d85ccf2794819096cda4cbcb02d478 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04e9a95f08190b0013ba1428849d3 completed April 16, 2026, 2:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff678a9fac81908030726054ff5a99 completed May 9, 2026, 4:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff6883b5048190b64e4361bc89dd80 completed May 9, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff6911a76c819088c8a86d2106b6c6 completed May 9, 2026, 5:04 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:14 a.m.