Triple
T16518407
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Down to a Soundless Sea |
E401247
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thom Steinbeck |
E92272
|
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: Thom Steinbeck | Statement: [Down to a Soundless Sea, author, Thom Steinbeck]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thom Steinbeck Context triple: [Down to a Soundless Sea, author, Thom Steinbeck]
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A.
Thom Steinbeck
chosen
Thom Steinbeck was an American writer and the son of Nobel Prize–winning author John Steinbeck, known for his own novels and screenwriting work.
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B.
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck was a prominent 20th-century American novelist best known for his socially conscious works such as "The Grapes of Wrath," "Of Mice and Men," and "East of Eden."
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C.
A. B. Guthrie Jr.
A. B. Guthrie Jr. was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning Western novel "The Way West" and his contributions to the literature of the American frontier.
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D.
Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson was an American modernist writer best known for his influential short story cycle "Winesburg, Ohio," which deeply explored small-town life and psychological realism.
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E.
Willa Cather
Willa Cather was a prominent American novelist best known for her evocative depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in works such as "My Ántonia" and "O Pioneers!".
- 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_69d883838abc8190bc79cb2d41733ce2 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e32e7da2248190a540a5ef8686963d |
completed | April 18, 2026, 7:10 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a006086c0a881908976103f8a144f69 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:14 a.m.