Triple

T763827
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Steinbeck E16129 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object 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.
E90112 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: In Dubious Battle | Statement: [John Steinbeck, notableWork, In Dubious Battle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: In Dubious Battle
Context triple: [John Steinbeck, notableWork, In Dubious Battle]
  • A. The Ox-Bow Incident
    The Ox-Bow Incident is a 1943 American Western film noir about a lynch mob’s rush to judgment, renowned for its stark moral themes and powerful performances.
  • B. 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.
  • C. The Lonedale Operator
    The Lonedale Operator is a 1911 silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith, noted for its innovative cross-cutting and suspenseful storytelling in early cinema.
  • 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 Grapes of Wrath
    The Grapes of Wrath is John Steinbeck’s landmark 1939 novel that follows the Joad family’s harrowing journey from Oklahoma to California, exposing the human cost of economic hardship and social injustice during the Great Depression.
  • 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: In Dubious Battle
Triple: [John Steinbeck, notableWork, In Dubious Battle]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: In Dubious Battle
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. The Ox-Bow Incident
    The Ox-Bow Incident is a 1943 American Western film noir about a lynch mob’s rush to judgment, renowned for its stark moral themes and powerful performances.
  • B. 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.
  • C. The Lonedale Operator
    The Lonedale Operator is a 1911 silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith, noted for its innovative cross-cutting and suspenseful storytelling in early cinema.
  • 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 Grapes of Wrath
    The Grapes of Wrath is John Steinbeck’s landmark 1939 novel that follows the Joad family’s harrowing journey from Oklahoma to California, exposing the human cost of economic hardship and social injustice during the Great Depression.
  • 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_69a493684ee48190bd43b7c78da4aec8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a69c8c448190a036a04fd8fdd2c2 completed March 1, 2026, 8:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a65e46d86c81908bc0ea469ccb091d completed March 3, 2026, 4:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a65eeaa34481909b0deac860fbadfc completed March 3, 2026, 4:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a65f7b09b08190bf38f02a912b2276 completed March 3, 2026, 4:11 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.