Triple

T16252198
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dora Flood E394536 entity
Predicate fictionalUniverse P3758 FINISHED
Object John Steinbeck’s Monterey fiction cycle
John Steinbeck’s Monterey fiction cycle is a group of interrelated works, including novels like "Cannery Row" and "Sweet Thursday," that depict the lives of working-class and marginalized characters in the coastal town of Monterey, California.
E92664 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: John Steinbeck’s Monterey fiction cycle | Statement: [Dora Flood, fictionalUniverse, John Steinbeck’s Monterey fiction cycle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Steinbeck’s Monterey fiction cycle
Context triple: [Dora Flood, fictionalUniverse, John Steinbeck’s Monterey fiction cycle]
  • A. John Steinbeck’s labor trilogy
    John Steinbeck’s labor trilogy is a group of three socially conscious novels—often identified as *In Dubious Battle*, *Of Mice and Men*, and *The Grapes of Wrath*—that explore the struggles and injustices faced by American workers during the Great Depression.
  • B. Summer in Monterey
    "Summer in Monterey" is a song from Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson’s collaborative album *Orange Crate Art*, evoking nostalgic, West Coast Americana imagery.
  • C. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
    The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter is a Pulitzer Prize–winning volume that gathers the acclaimed American writer’s short fiction, showcasing her precise prose and psychological insight.
  • D. Tortilla Flat
    Tortilla Flat is a 1935 novel by John Steinbeck that humorously and poignantly portrays the lives of a group of paisano friends in post–World War I Monterey, California.
  • E. The Stories of John Cheever
    The Stories of John Cheever is a celebrated collection of short fiction that showcases Cheever’s incisive portrayals of American suburban life and its underlying anxieties.
  • 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: John Steinbeck’s Monterey fiction cycle
Triple: [Dora Flood, fictionalUniverse, John Steinbeck’s Monterey fiction cycle]
Generated description
John Steinbeck’s Monterey fiction cycle is a group of interrelated works, including novels like "Cannery Row" and "Sweet Thursday," that depict the lives of working-class and marginalized characters in the coastal town of Monterey, California.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Steinbeck’s Monterey fiction cycle
Target entity description: John Steinbeck’s Monterey fiction cycle is a group of interrelated works, including novels like "Cannery Row" and "Sweet Thursday," that depict the lives of working-class and marginalized characters in the coastal town of Monterey, California.
  • A. John Steinbeck’s labor trilogy
    John Steinbeck’s labor trilogy is a group of three socially conscious novels—often identified as *In Dubious Battle*, *Of Mice and Men*, and *The Grapes of Wrath*—that explore the struggles and injustices faced by American workers during the Great Depression.
  • B. Summer in Monterey
    "Summer in Monterey" is a song from Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson’s collaborative album *Orange Crate Art*, evoking nostalgic, West Coast Americana imagery.
  • C. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
    The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter is a Pulitzer Prize–winning volume that gathers the acclaimed American writer’s short fiction, showcasing her precise prose and psychological insight.
  • D. Tortilla Flat chosen
    Tortilla Flat is a 1935 novel by John Steinbeck that humorously and poignantly portrays the lives of a group of paisano friends in post–World War I Monterey, California.
  • E. The Stories of John Cheever
    The Stories of John Cheever is a celebrated collection of short fiction that showcases Cheever’s incisive portrayals of American suburban life and its underlying anxieties.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d87f2171208190951025e526947816 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e24597b74481908fdb8175628a57a1 completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a000ee788f88190b16d267f1eee6d62 completed May 10, 2026, 4:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00113900c88190bf7f56ca4b16a84c completed May 10, 2026, 5:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0011d98f708190805c84d63ed79aaa completed May 10, 2026, 5:04 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:04 a.m.