Triple
T21435259
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Dry September |
E528790
|
entity |
| Predicate | majorCharacter |
P12208
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Will Mayes |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Will Mayes | Statement: [Dry September, majorCharacter, Will Mayes]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Will Mayes Context triple: [Dry September, majorCharacter, Will Mayes]
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A.
Will Mayes
chosen
Will Mayes is a Black laborer in William Faulkner’s short story "Dry September," whose false accusation and subsequent victimization expose the brutal racism and mob violence of the Jim Crow South.
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B.
Gary Mayse
Gary Mayse is a baseball executive best known for serving as the general manager of the minor league Dayton Dragons.
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C.
David May
David May was an American businessman best known as the founder of the May Department Stores Company, which grew into one of the largest department store chains in the United States.
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D.
David May
David May is a British computer scientist best known for designing the transputer architecture and leading the development of the Occam concurrent programming language.
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E.
Dennis Wilkey
Dennis Wilkey is a songwriter best known for co-writing the lyrics to Grace Jones's hit song "I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)."
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e0c4569fa081908101baa24f8745db |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e8b536274c8190809bd3cdf4ef899e |
completed | April 22, 2026, 11:47 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:02 p.m.