Triple
T5587373
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Town |
E146788
|
entity |
| Predicate | featuresCharacter |
P626
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Flem Snopes |
E529111
|
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: Flem Snopes | Statement: [The Town, featuresCharacter, Flem Snopes]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Flem Snopes Context triple: [The Town, featuresCharacter, Flem Snopes]
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A.
Flem Snopes
chosen
Flem Snopes is a cunning, opportunistic antihero in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, known for his ruthless social climbing and moral ambiguity.
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B.
Linda Snopes
Linda Snopes is a central character in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, known as a member of the Snopes family whose life reflects the social and moral upheavals of the American South.
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C.
Eula Varner Snopes
Eula Varner Snopes is a central character in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, known as a powerful, sensual Southern woman whose marriage into the Snopes family symbolizes the clash between old aristocratic values and rising opportunism.
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D.
Darl Bundren
Darl Bundren is a central, introspective and increasingly unstable member of the Bundren family in William Faulkner’s novel *As I Lay Dying*, known for his fragmented narration and eventual descent into madness.
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E.
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.
- 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_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_69c0b0918b088190b0fcd0ab02091eb2 |
completed | March 23, 2026, 3:16 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:38 p.m.