Triple

T15621992
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Snopes family E375578 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object Hoake Snopes
Hoake Snopes is a minor member of William Faulkner’s fictional Snopes family, representing the clan’s characteristic opportunism and moral ambiguity in the Yoknapatawpha County saga.
E1167907 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: Hoake Snopes | Statement: [Snopes family, hasMember, Hoake Snopes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hoake Snopes
Context triple: [Snopes family, hasMember, Hoake 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. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Eppa Hunton
    Eppa Hunton was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War who later became a U.S. Congressman and Senator from Virginia.
  • E. Bryon Snopes
    Bryon Snopes is a fictional member of the Snopes family in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, known for his involvement in the family’s morally ambiguous and often unscrupulous activities.
  • 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: Hoake Snopes
Triple: [Snopes family, hasMember, Hoake Snopes]
Generated description
Hoake Snopes is a minor member of William Faulkner’s fictional Snopes family, representing the clan’s characteristic opportunism and moral ambiguity in the Yoknapatawpha County saga.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hoake Snopes
Target entity description: Hoake Snopes is a minor member of William Faulkner’s fictional Snopes family, representing the clan’s characteristic opportunism and moral ambiguity in the Yoknapatawpha County 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. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Eppa Hunton
    Eppa Hunton was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War who later became a U.S. Congressman and Senator from Virginia.
  • E. Bryon Snopes chosen
    Bryon Snopes is a fictional member of the Snopes family in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, known for his involvement in the family’s morally ambiguous and often unscrupulous activities.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ff82e73534819095fca1b804d5db58 completed May 9, 2026, 6:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff83f35f088190a7506cf7152ebb88 completed May 9, 2026, 6:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff846436e48190b711da134c9a3b81 completed May 9, 2026, 7 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:14 a.m.