Triple

T15621985
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Snopes family E375578 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object Mink Snopes
Mink Snopes is a violent, vengeful member of William Faulkner’s fictional Snopes family, best known for his role in the novel "The Mansion" as a murderer whose actions drive key events in the Yoknapatawpha saga.
E1171777 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: Mink Snopes | Statement: [Snopes family, hasMember, Mink Snopes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mink Snopes
Context triple: [Snopes family, hasMember, Mink 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. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Eula Varner Snopes
    Eula Varner Snopes is a central character in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, known as a powerful, sensual Southern woman whose marriage into the Snopes family symbolizes the clash between old aristocratic values and rising opportunism.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Mink Snopes
Triple: [Snopes family, hasMember, Mink Snopes]
Generated description
Mink Snopes is a violent, vengeful member of William Faulkner’s fictional Snopes family, best known for his role in the novel "The Mansion" as a murderer whose actions drive key events in the Yoknapatawpha saga.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mink Snopes
Target entity description: Mink Snopes is a violent, vengeful member of William Faulkner’s fictional Snopes family, best known for his role in the novel "The Mansion" as a murderer whose actions drive key events in the Yoknapatawpha saga.
  • 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. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Eula Varner Snopes
    Eula Varner Snopes is a central character in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, known as a powerful, sensual Southern woman whose marriage into the Snopes family symbolizes the clash between old aristocratic values and rising opportunism.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69ff75655c948190aa1afa424e5270d1 completed May 9, 2026, 5:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff761a18e4819089a4a722884ded9c completed May 9, 2026, 5:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff76c0f9c48190aff58b147c1ed12b completed May 9, 2026, 6:02 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:14 a.m.