Triple
T5587320
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Absalom, Absalom! |
E146787
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Thomas Sutpen
Thomas Sutpen is the ruthless, enigmatic plantation owner at the center of William Faulkner’s Southern Gothic novel, whose obsessive pursuit of a self-made dynasty drives the book’s tragic exploration of race, class, and the legacy of the American South.
|
E528784
|
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: Thomas Sutpen | Statement: [Absalom, Absalom!, mainCharacter, Thomas Sutpen]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Sutpen Context triple: [Absalom, Absalom!, mainCharacter, Thomas Sutpen]
-
A.
Edwin Epps
Edwin Epps is the brutal, sadistic plantation owner who enslaves Solomon Northup in the film and memoir "12 Years a Slave."
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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.
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C.
Calvin Candie
Calvin Candie is a sadistic and flamboyant Southern plantation owner who serves as the main antagonist in Quentin Tarantino's film "Django Unchained."
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D.
Ransom Stoddard
Ransom Stoddard is a principled lawyer-turned-politician in the classic Western film "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," whose rise to fame is built on a legendary but misunderstood act of frontier justice.
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E.
Sutpen family
The Sutpen family is a central, ill-fated Southern dynasty in William Faulkner’s fiction, most prominently depicted in his novel "Absalom, Absalom!"
- 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: Thomas Sutpen Triple: [Absalom, Absalom!, mainCharacter, Thomas Sutpen]
Generated description
Thomas Sutpen is the ruthless, enigmatic plantation owner at the center of William Faulkner’s Southern Gothic novel, whose obsessive pursuit of a self-made dynasty drives the book’s tragic exploration of race, class, and the legacy of the American South.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Sutpen Target entity description: Thomas Sutpen is the ruthless, enigmatic plantation owner at the center of William Faulkner’s Southern Gothic novel, whose obsessive pursuit of a self-made dynasty drives the book’s tragic exploration of race, class, and the legacy of the American South.
-
A.
Edwin Epps
Edwin Epps is the brutal, sadistic plantation owner who enslaves Solomon Northup in the film and memoir "12 Years a Slave."
-
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.
Calvin Candie
Calvin Candie is a sadistic and flamboyant Southern plantation owner who serves as the main antagonist in Quentin Tarantino's film "Django Unchained."
-
D.
Ransom Stoddard
Ransom Stoddard is a principled lawyer-turned-politician in the classic Western film "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," whose rise to fame is built on a legendary but misunderstood act of frontier justice.
-
E.
Sutpen family
The Sutpen family is a central, ill-fated Southern dynasty in William Faulkner’s fiction, most prominently depicted in his novel "Absalom, Absalom!"
- 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_69c009036c408190981a8d690b679b67 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c0209d713081908b39ee8befb2faf7 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 5:02 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c0286558b48190a8907c06111a48f3 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 5:35 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c0350eb53081909dc573fefa3e7f0a |
completed | March 22, 2026, 6:29 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c036ee4e1c8190b9e60655d72407ff |
completed | March 22, 2026, 6:37 p.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:38 p.m.