Triple

T3632485
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Yoknapatawpha County E76988 entity
Predicate hasNotableFamily P3600 FINISHED
Object McCaslin family
The McCaslin family is a prominent fictional Southern dynasty in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, central to his explorations of race, inheritance, and the legacy of slavery.
E375579 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: McCaslin family | Statement: [Yoknapatawpha County, hasNotableFamily, McCaslin family]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McCaslin family
Context triple: [Yoknapatawpha County, hasNotableFamily, McCaslin family]
  • A. Lee family
    The Lee family is a prominent American dynasty from Virginia, historically influential in politics and the military and best known for producing figures such as Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
  • B. De Witt family
    The De Witt family was a prominent Dutch patrician dynasty from Dordrecht that played a leading role in the politics and governance of the Dutch Republic during the 17th century.
  • C. Jennings family
    The Jennings family was an English noble lineage best known for producing Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, a powerful courtier and confidante of Queen Anne.
  • D. Jennings family
    The Jennings family is a private family that holds ownership of Swains Island, a remote atoll in the Tokelau region of the South Pacific.
  • E. Towne family
    The Towne family was a 17th-century New England family historically notable for several members, including Sarah Cloyce and her sisters, being accused during the Salem witch trials.
  • 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: McCaslin family
Triple: [Yoknapatawpha County, hasNotableFamily, McCaslin family]
Generated description
The McCaslin family is a prominent fictional Southern dynasty in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, central to his explorations of race, inheritance, and the legacy of slavery.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McCaslin family
Target entity description: The McCaslin family is a prominent fictional Southern dynasty in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, central to his explorations of race, inheritance, and the legacy of slavery.
  • A. Lee family
    The Lee family is a prominent American dynasty from Virginia, historically influential in politics and the military and best known for producing figures such as Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
  • B. De Witt family
    The De Witt family was a prominent Dutch patrician dynasty from Dordrecht that played a leading role in the politics and governance of the Dutch Republic during the 17th century.
  • C. Jennings family
    The Jennings family is a private family that holds ownership of Swains Island, a remote atoll in the Tokelau region of the South Pacific.
  • D. Jennings family
    The Jennings family was an English noble lineage best known for producing Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, a powerful courtier and confidante of Queen Anne.
  • E. Towne family
    The Towne family was a 17th-century New England family historically notable for several members, including Sarah Cloyce and her sisters, being accused during the Salem witch trials.
  • 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_69ad85dc03948190b35b7189e4175bcc completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc30251d881908284edeb7fe69ad8 completed March 8, 2026, 6:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b44f1af1c48190a72effe80959bfb3 completed March 13, 2026, 5:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4517370888190bd4082420c5d5a32 completed March 13, 2026, 6:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b458a3ad2c8190a0b50cc8a31ae5eb completed March 13, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:23 p.m.