Triple

T3632750
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject As I Lay Dying E76994 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object 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.
E375591 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: Addie Bundren | Statement: [As I Lay Dying, mainCharacter, Addie Bundren]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Addie Bundren
Context triple: [As I Lay Dying, mainCharacter, Addie Bundren]
  • A. Hazel Motes
    Hazel Motes is the tormented, anti-religious preacher at the center of Flannery O’Connor’s novel "Wise Blood," known for founding the nihilistic Church Without Christ.
  • B. Mr. Jason Compson III
    Mr. Jason Compson III is a bitter, cynical, and financially obsessed member of the Compson family in William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury," embodying the decay and moral corruption of the Southern aristocracy.
  • C. Frank Gumm
    Frank Gumm was an American vaudeville performer and theater owner best known as the father of legendary entertainer Judy Garland.
  • D. Caddy Compson
    Caddy Compson is a central, elusive figure in William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury," whose troubled life and moral transgressions profoundly shape the fate and inner turmoil of the Compson family.
  • E. Jack Gladney
    Jack Gladney is the middle-aged, anxiety-ridden professor who founded the academic field of Hitler studies and narrates Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise."
  • 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: Addie Bundren
Triple: [As I Lay Dying, mainCharacter, Addie Bundren]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Addie Bundren
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. Hazel Motes
    Hazel Motes is the tormented, anti-religious preacher at the center of Flannery O’Connor’s novel "Wise Blood," known for founding the nihilistic Church Without Christ.
  • B. Mr. Jason Compson III
    Mr. Jason Compson III is a bitter, cynical, and financially obsessed member of the Compson family in William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury," embodying the decay and moral corruption of the Southern aristocracy.
  • C. Frank Gumm
    Frank Gumm was an American vaudeville performer and theater owner best known as the father of legendary entertainer Judy Garland.
  • D. Caddy Compson
    Caddy Compson is a central, elusive figure in William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury," whose troubled life and moral transgressions profoundly shape the fate and inner turmoil of the Compson family.
  • E. Jack Gladney
    Jack Gladney is the middle-aged, anxiety-ridden professor who founded the academic field of Hitler studies and narrates Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise."
  • 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_69ad85dd0be48190b738990cb20c4731 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc30457608190840fb5b33f9965c4 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.