Triple

T16252299
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Boys (Cannery Row) E394539 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object Jones
Jones is a minor character in John Steinbeck’s novel "Cannery Row," portrayed as one of the down-and-out but good-natured men who frequent the area’s flophouses and hangouts.
E46350 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: Jones | Statement: [The Boys (Cannery Row), hasMember, Jones]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jones
Context triple: [The Boys (Cannery Row), hasMember, Jones]
  • A. John
    John is the given name of Sir John Colborne, a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and later as Lord Seaton.
  • B. John
    John St. Clair Drake was an influential American sociologist and anthropologist known for his pioneering studies of race relations and urban Black life.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of Sir John Byron, an English nobleman and Royalist commander during the English Civil War.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John Conway, an Irish footballer born in 1948 who played as a winger.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, a British aristocrat and 10th Duke of Marlborough.
  • 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: Jones
Triple: [The Boys (Cannery Row), hasMember, Jones]
Generated description
Jones is a minor character in John Steinbeck’s novel "Cannery Row," portrayed as one of the down-and-out but good-natured men who frequent the area’s flophouses and hangouts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jones
Target entity description: Jones is a minor character in John Steinbeck’s novel "Cannery Row," portrayed as one of the down-and-out but good-natured men who frequent the area’s flophouses and hangouts.
  • A. Jones chosen
    Jones is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as entertainment, sports, politics, and science.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, a British aristocrat and 10th Duke of Marlborough.
  • C. John
    John is the middle name of Samuel John Mills, an American Congregationalist minister known for his role in early 19th-century missionary movements.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John Eales, the renowned former Australian rugby union captain and World Cup winner.
  • E. John
    John was a Portuguese royal who held the title of Prince of Brazil and later became King John VI of Portugal.
  • 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.