Triple

T15622348
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bayard Sartoris E375587 entity
Predicate appearsIn P795 FINISHED
Object “Skirmish at Sartoris”
“Skirmish at Sartoris” is a William Faulkner short story set in Yoknapatawpha County that follows Bayard Sartoris and his family during the final days of the American Civil War.
E1167931 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: “Skirmish at Sartoris” | Statement: [Bayard Sartoris, appearsIn, “Skirmish at Sartoris”]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “Skirmish at Sartoris”
Context triple: [Bayard Sartoris, appearsIn, “Skirmish at Sartoris”]
  • A. “The Battle for the Mississippi”
    “The Battle for the Mississippi” is a poem by Herman Melville included in his Civil War collection *Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War*, reflecting on the strategic struggle for control of the Mississippi River.
  • B. Camp Jackson Affair
    The Camp Jackson Affair was an 1861 Civil War–era confrontation in St. Louis where Union forces clashed with pro-Confederate Missouri militia, sparking deadly riots and intensifying sectional tensions in the border state.
  • C. The Battle of Alligator Hill
    The Battle of Alligator Hill is a short story from James A. Michener’s Pulitzer Prize–winning collection "Tales of the South Pacific," set against the backdrop of World War II in the Pacific theater.
  • D. Wilson’s Patrol
    Wilson’s Patrol refers to the ill-fated British South Africa Company patrol led by Major Allan Wilson that was annihilated during the 1893 Shangani Patrol incident in the First Matabele War.
  • E. Battle of the Tenth Milestone
    The Battle of the Tenth Milestone was a 533 AD engagement near Carthage in which the Byzantine general Belisarius defeated the Vandal forces during Justinian I’s campaign to reconquer North Africa.
  • 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: “Skirmish at Sartoris”
Triple: [Bayard Sartoris, appearsIn, “Skirmish at Sartoris”]
Generated description
“Skirmish at Sartoris” is a William Faulkner short story set in Yoknapatawpha County that follows Bayard Sartoris and his family during the final days of the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “Skirmish at Sartoris”
Target entity description: “Skirmish at Sartoris” is a William Faulkner short story set in Yoknapatawpha County that follows Bayard Sartoris and his family during the final days of the American Civil War.
  • A. “The Battle for the Mississippi”
    “The Battle for the Mississippi” is a poem by Herman Melville included in his Civil War collection *Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War*, reflecting on the strategic struggle for control of the Mississippi River.
  • B. Camp Jackson Affair
    The Camp Jackson Affair was an 1861 Civil War–era confrontation in St. Louis where Union forces clashed with pro-Confederate Missouri militia, sparking deadly riots and intensifying sectional tensions in the border state.
  • C. The Battle of Alligator Hill
    The Battle of Alligator Hill is a short story from James A. Michener’s Pulitzer Prize–winning collection "Tales of the South Pacific," set against the backdrop of World War II in the Pacific theater.
  • D. Wilson’s Patrol
    Wilson’s Patrol refers to the ill-fated British South Africa Company patrol led by Major Allan Wilson that was annihilated during the 1893 Shangani Patrol incident in the First Matabele War.
  • E. Battle of the Tenth Milestone
    The Battle of the Tenth Milestone was a 533 AD engagement near Carthage in which the Byzantine general Belisarius defeated the Vandal forces during Justinian I’s campaign to reconquer North Africa.
  • 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_69ff5f3da754819085a6bd9876b12c65 completed May 9, 2026, 4:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff605d94308190bccbfb4588f337e1 completed May 9, 2026, 4:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff612340748190987e567e43460f62 completed May 9, 2026, 4:30 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:14 a.m.