Triple
T5532113
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Light in August |
E145072
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Joe Christmas |
E380578
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Joe Christmas | Statement: [Light in August, mainCharacter, Joe Christmas]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joe Christmas Context triple: [Light in August, mainCharacter, Joe Christmas]
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A.
Joe Christmas
chosen
Joe Christmas is the tormented, racially ambiguous protagonist of William Faulkner’s novel "Light in August," whose life and violent fate unfold in the fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi.
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B.
Xaphoon Jones
Xaphoon Jones is an American hip-hop producer best known as the co-founder and beatmaker of the duo Chiddy Bang.
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C.
Joe Trace
Joe Trace is a middle-aged cosmetics salesman in Harlem whose passionate affair and its violent aftermath drive the intertwined stories of Toni Morrison’s novel "Jazz."
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D.
Enoch Snow
Enoch Snow is a central character in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel," portrayed as an ambitious fisherman with strong moral values and comic earnestness.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c008f9955881909bfa8348b56b4739 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c01f9d17ec8190b93b12931a4c1b33 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 4:58 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c028094fa48190a1f48779a7963af9 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 5:34 p.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:34 p.m.