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."
  • 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
  • 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.