Triple

T12944681
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Monique Truong E309729 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Book of Salt
The Book of Salt is a critically acclaimed debut novel by Monique Truong that imagines the inner life of a Vietnamese cook working for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in 1930s Paris.
E1010889 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 Book of Salt | Statement: [Monique Truong, notableWork, The Book of Salt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Book of Salt
Context triple: [Monique Truong, notableWork, The Book of Salt]
  • A. The Dovekeepers
    The Dovekeepers is a historical drama miniseries based on Alice Hoffman’s novel, depicting the lives of four women during the siege of Masada in ancient Judea.
  • B. Mrs. Salt
    Mrs. Salt is Veruca Salt’s indulgent and wealthy mother in Roald Dahl’s "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," known for spoiling her daughter’s every whim.
  • C. House of the Book
    House of the Book is the former name of the historic Singer House, an iconic early 20th-century Art Nouveau building in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
  • D. The Bonesetter’s Daughter
    The Bonesetter’s Daughter is a novel by Amy Tan that intertwines the stories of a Chinese American woman and her mother, exploring themes of memory, family secrets, and cultural identity across generations.
  • E. Warlight
    Warlight is a postwar coming-of-age novel by Michael Ondaatje that follows two siblings uncovering the mysterious past of their parents in 1940s and 1950s London.
  • 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 Book of Salt
Triple: [Monique Truong, notableWork, The Book of Salt]
Generated description
The Book of Salt is a critically acclaimed debut novel by Monique Truong that imagines the inner life of a Vietnamese cook working for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in 1930s Paris.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Book of Salt
Target entity description: The Book of Salt is a critically acclaimed debut novel by Monique Truong that imagines the inner life of a Vietnamese cook working for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in 1930s Paris.
  • A. The Dovekeepers
    The Dovekeepers is a historical drama miniseries based on Alice Hoffman’s novel, depicting the lives of four women during the siege of Masada in ancient Judea.
  • B. Mrs. Salt
    Mrs. Salt is Veruca Salt’s indulgent and wealthy mother in Roald Dahl’s "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," known for spoiling her daughter’s every whim.
  • C. House of the Book
    House of the Book is the former name of the historic Singer House, an iconic early 20th-century Art Nouveau building in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
  • D. The Bonesetter’s Daughter
    The Bonesetter’s Daughter is a novel by Amy Tan that intertwines the stories of a Chinese American woman and her mother, exploring themes of memory, family secrets, and cultural identity across generations.
  • E. Warlight
    Warlight is a postwar coming-of-age novel by Michael Ondaatje that follows two siblings uncovering the mysterious past of their parents in 1940s and 1950s London.
  • 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_69d7bdfb57a88190836b743e2825feca completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d97e1b3694819098527dcea3cfed93 completed April 10, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6af73e6348190be114e8c5ad181bf completed May 3, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6b066f3888190b925e5a43be57965 completed May 3, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6b1ae645c8190a7c3e5f926c6a487 completed May 3, 2026, 2:23 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:43 p.m.