Triple

T5532115
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Light in August E145072 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Gail Hightower
Gail Hightower is a disgraced former Presbyterian minister in William Faulkner’s novel "Light in August," haunted by his family’s violent past and obsessed with Civil War heroism.
 E529098 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: Gail Hightower | Statement: [Light in August, mainCharacter, Gail Hightower]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Gail Hightower
Context triple: [Light in August, mainCharacter, Gail Hightower]
  • A. Grace Hightower
    Grace Hightower is an American philanthropist, socialite, and former actress and singer, known for her long-term marriage to actor Robert De Niro and her charitable work.
  • B. Joan
    Joan is the middle name of Margaret Trudeau, the Canadian author, actress, and former wife of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
  • C. Joan
    Joan is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
  • D. Joan
    Joan is the birth name of Joni Mitchell, the influential Canadian singer-songwriter and painter renowned for her poetic lyrics and innovative compositions.
  • E. Charlotte Andergast
    Charlotte Andergast is the emotionally distant concert pianist mother at the center of Ingmar Bergman’s film "Autumn Sonata," whose strained relationship with her daughter drives the story’s intense psychological drama.
  • 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: Gail Hightower
Triple: [Light in August, mainCharacter, Gail Hightower]
Generated description
Gail Hightower is a disgraced former Presbyterian minister in William Faulkner’s novel "Light in August," haunted by his family’s violent past and obsessed with Civil War heroism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Gail Hightower
Target entity description: Gail Hightower is a disgraced former Presbyterian minister in William Faulkner’s novel "Light in August," haunted by his family’s violent past and obsessed with Civil War heroism.
  • A. Grace Hightower
    Grace Hightower is an American philanthropist, socialite, and former actress and singer, known for her long-term marriage to actor Robert De Niro and her charitable work.
  • B. Joan
    Joan is the middle name of Margaret Trudeau, the Canadian author, actress, and former wife of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
  • C. Joan
    Joan is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
  • D. Joan
    Joan is the birth name of Joni Mitchell, the influential Canadian singer-songwriter and painter renowned for her poetic lyrics and innovative compositions.
  • E. Charlotte Andergast
    Charlotte Andergast is the emotionally distant concert pianist mother at the center of Ingmar Bergman’s film "Autumn Sonata," whose strained relationship with her daughter drives the story’s intense psychological drama.
  • 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_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.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c033ddc7148190ba64ebfc2472c367 completed March 22, 2026, 6:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c036725fc481908ab0e260892d8243 completed March 22, 2026, 6:35 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:34 p.m.