Triple

T16518421
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Down to a Soundless Sea E401247 entity
Predicate authorRelation P115015 FINISHED
Object Thom Steinbeck is the son of John Steinbeck E92272 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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 is the son of John Steinbeck | Statement: [Down to a Soundless Sea, authorRelation, Thom Steinbeck is the son of John Steinbeck]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thom Steinbeck is the son of John Steinbeck
Context triple: [Down to a Soundless Sea, authorRelation, Thom Steinbeck is the son of John Steinbeck]
  • 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.
  • 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."
  • C. Tom Joad
    Tom Joad is the central, morally driven migrant worker in John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath," symbolizing social justice and the struggles of the American Dust Bowl era.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Joad
    Joad is the surname of the central Dust Bowl migrant family in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: authorRelation
Context triple: [Down to a Soundless Sea, authorRelation, Thom Steinbeck is the son of John Steinbeck]
  • A. authorRelationshipToMainSubject
    Indicates the nature of the connection or role the author has in relation to the main subject.
  • B. hasAuthorRelationship
    Indicates a relationship where one entity serves as the author or creator of another entity (such as a work, document, or resource).
  • C. authorMentionedBy
    Indicates that a given author is referenced or cited by another entity (such as a document, work, or person).
  • D. familyAssociationOfAuthor chosen
    Indicates that one entity is a family member or relative associated with the author entity.
  • E. hasAuthorRelationshipToSubject
    Indicates that an entity serves as the author or creator of the specified subject.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (4 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.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69e296995d388190b88ebe189dce890d completed April 17, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:14 a.m.