Triple

T4717030
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Steinbeck E104668 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Winter of Our Discontent
The Winter of Our Discontent is a 1961 novel by John Steinbeck that explores moral decline and the corrupting influence of the American pursuit of success through the story of a disillusioned Long Island man.
E464098 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: The Winter of Our Discontent | Statement: [John Steinbeck, notableWork, The Winter of Our Discontent]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Winter of Our Discontent
Context triple: [John Steinbeck, notableWork, The Winter of Our Discontent]
  • A. An American Tragedy
    An American Tragedy is a landmark 1925 naturalist novel by Theodore Dreiser that explores ambition, class, and moral downfall through the story of a young man's pursuit of the American Dream leading to crime and ruin.
  • B. In Dubious Battle
    In Dubious Battle is a 1936 novel by John Steinbeck that portrays the struggles and moral complexities of labor organizing during a fruit pickers’ strike in California.
  • C. The Honest Men
    The Honest Men is the traditional nickname of Scottish football club Ayr United F.C., reflecting the club’s historic identity and local pride.
  • D. 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.
  • E. The Seven Good Years
    The Seven Good Years is a celebrated work of Yiddish literature by I. L. Peretz that reflects Jewish life and culture with a blend of realism, folklore, and moral insight.
  • 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: The Winter of Our Discontent
Triple: [John Steinbeck, notableWork, The Winter of Our Discontent]
Generated description
The Winter of Our Discontent is a 1961 novel by John Steinbeck that explores moral decline and the corrupting influence of the American pursuit of success through the story of a disillusioned Long Island man.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Winter of Our Discontent
Target entity description: The Winter of Our Discontent is a 1961 novel by John Steinbeck that explores moral decline and the corrupting influence of the American pursuit of success through the story of a disillusioned Long Island man.
  • A. An American Tragedy
    An American Tragedy is a landmark 1925 naturalist novel by Theodore Dreiser that explores ambition, class, and moral downfall through the story of a young man's pursuit of the American Dream leading to crime and ruin.
  • B. In Dubious Battle
    In Dubious Battle is a 1936 novel by John Steinbeck that portrays the struggles and moral complexities of labor organizing during a fruit pickers’ strike in California.
  • C. The Honest Men
    The Honest Men is the traditional nickname of Scottish football club Ayr United F.C., reflecting the club’s historic identity and local pride.
  • D. 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.
  • E. The Seven Good Years
    The Seven Good Years is a celebrated work of Yiddish literature by I. L. Peretz that reflects Jewish life and culture with a blend of realism, folklore, and moral insight.
  • F. None of above. chosen

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_69bd43ec4a348190bc41afae43375e71 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd640a32ec8190850146957885c3cf completed March 20, 2026, 3:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be1088103c819098296ce700697e90 completed March 21, 2026, 3:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be10fc6b1481909f6184e32cbd61a6 completed March 21, 2026, 3:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be11691c448190ab09b3d055c1a1a8 completed March 21, 2026, 3:32 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:18 p.m.