Cannery Row
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Cannery Row is a 1945 novel by John Steinbeck that portrays the lives of down-and-out but warm-hearted characters in a sardine-canning district of Monterey, California.
All labels observed (11)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T763824 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cannery Row Context triple: [John Steinbeck, notableWork, Cannery Row]
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A.
East of Eden
East of Eden is a 1955 American drama film adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel, best known for its direction by Elia Kazan and one of James Dean’s most iconic performances.
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B.
Inherent Vice
Inherent Vice is a 2009 neo-noir novel by Thomas Pynchon that follows a stoner private detective navigating a psychedelic, conspiracy-laced Los Angeles at the end of the 1960s.
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C.
The Ghost of Tom Joad
The Ghost of Tom Joad is a stark, acoustic-driven folk album by Bruce Springsteen that explores themes of social injustice, poverty, and the struggles of marginalized people in contemporary America.
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D.
The City of Good Living
The City of Good Living is a promotional nickname highlighting the comfortable, family-friendly quality of life in San Carlos, California.
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E.
Going to Meet the Man
Going to Meet the Man is a 1965 short story collection by James Baldwin that explores themes of race, violence, sexuality, and power in mid-20th-century America.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cannery Row Target entity description: Cannery Row is a 1945 novel by John Steinbeck that portrays the lives of down-and-out but warm-hearted characters in a sardine-canning district of Monterey, California.
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A.
East of Eden
East of Eden is a 1955 American drama film adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel, best known for its direction by Elia Kazan and one of James Dean’s most iconic performances.
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B.
Inherent Vice
Inherent Vice is a 2009 neo-noir novel by Thomas Pynchon that follows a stoner private detective navigating a psychedelic, conspiracy-laced Los Angeles at the end of the 1960s.
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C.
The Ghost of Tom Joad
The Ghost of Tom Joad is a stark, acoustic-driven folk album by Bruce Springsteen that explores themes of social injustice, poverty, and the struggles of marginalized people in contemporary America.
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D.
The City of Good Living
The City of Good Living is a promotional nickname highlighting the comfortable, family-friendly quality of life in San Carlos, California.
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E.
Going to Meet the Man
Going to Meet the Man is a 1965 short story collection by James Baldwin that explores themes of race, violence, sexuality, and power in mid-20th-century America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptationType | film adaptation ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
Cannery Row
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Cannery Row (1982 film)
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| author | John Steinbeck ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
down-and-out characters
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working-class life ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | print ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
ⓘ
novel ⓘ regional fiction ⓘ social novel ⓘ |
| hasCharacterOccupation |
brothel owner (Dora Flood)
ⓘ
grocer (Lee Chong) ⓘ marine biologist (Doc) ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Sweet Thursday ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
community
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compassion ⓘ friendship ⓘ human dignity ⓘ marginalized people ⓘ poverty ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| hasTitleOrigin | named after the real Cannery Row in Monterey ⓘ |
| includedIn | John Steinbeck bibliography ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Modernism
ⓘ
surface form:
American modernism
Realism ⓘ
surface form:
American realism
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| literarySignificance | classic of 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Doc
ⓘ
Dora Flood ⓘ Hazel ⓘ Lee Chong ⓘ Mack ⓘ The Boys ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of Monterey’s Cannery Row district ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Cannery Row
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Cannery Row series
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| publicationYear | 1945 ⓘ |
| publisher |
The Viking Press
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surface form:
Viking Press
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| setInLocation |
Cannery Row
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Cannery Row, Monterey
Monterey ⓘ
surface form:
Monterey, California
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| settingType | sardine-canning district ⓘ |
| structure | episodic ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Great Depression ⓘ |
| tone |
humorous
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poignant ⓘ warm-hearted ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Cannery Row Description of subject: Cannery Row is a 1945 novel by John Steinbeck that portrays the lives of down-and-out but warm-hearted characters in a sardine-canning district of Monterey, California.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cannery Row, Monterey
this entity surface form:
Cannery Row (1982 film)
this entity surface form:
Cannery Row series
subject surface form:
John Steinbeck
subject surface form:
Fisherman’s Wharf (Monterey)
this entity surface form:
Laboratory on Cannery Row
this entity surface form:
Cannery Row (1945 novel)
this entity surface form:
Cannery Row (1945 novel)
this entity surface form:
Cannery Row universe
this entity surface form:
Cannery Row (1945 novel)
subject surface form:
The Boys (Cannery Row)
this entity surface form:
Cannery Row (1945)
this entity surface form:
Cannery Row series
this entity surface form:
Cannery Row: The Play
subject surface form:
Lee Chong
subject surface form:
Lee Chong
this entity surface form:
The Cannery Row community
subject surface form:
Lee Chong
subject surface form:
Lee Chong
this entity surface form:
Cannery Row (Steinbeck’s Monterey novels cycle)