Triple

T3798898
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Of Mice and Men E91639 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Lennie Small
Lennie Small is a large, mentally disabled migrant ranch worker whose childlike innocence and unintentional violence drive the central tragedy of John Steinbeck’s novella "Of Mice and Men."
E388945 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: Lennie Small | Statement: [Of Mice and Men, mainCharacter, Lennie Small]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lennie Small
Context triple: [Of Mice and Men, mainCharacter, Lennie Small]
  • A. Lennie
    Lennie is a common diminutive form of the given name Leonard, often used as a familiar or affectionate nickname.
  • B. Grampa Joad
    Grampa Joad is the cantankerous, hard-drinking patriarch of the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
  • 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. Joad
    Joad is the surname of the central Dust Bowl migrant family in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
  • E. Noah Joad
    Noah Joad is a character in John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath," depicted as the eldest son of the Joad family who is physically deformed and emotionally detached from the family's struggles.
  • 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: Lennie Small
Triple: [Of Mice and Men, mainCharacter, Lennie Small]
Generated description
Lennie Small is a large, mentally disabled migrant ranch worker whose childlike innocence and unintentional violence drive the central tragedy of John Steinbeck’s novella "Of Mice and Men."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lennie Small
Target entity description: Lennie Small is a large, mentally disabled migrant ranch worker whose childlike innocence and unintentional violence drive the central tragedy of John Steinbeck’s novella "Of Mice and Men."
  • A. Lennie
    Lennie is a common diminutive form of the given name Leonard, often used as a familiar or affectionate nickname.
  • B. Grampa Joad
    Grampa Joad is the cantankerous, hard-drinking patriarch of the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
  • 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. Joad
    Joad is the surname of the central Dust Bowl migrant family in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
  • E. Noah Joad
    Noah Joad is a character in John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath," depicted as the eldest son of the Joad family who is physically deformed and emotionally detached from the family's struggles.
  • 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_69aed96354f48190a768966d6bd19b04 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aee7a270908190ac30537a22f3d500 completed March 9, 2026, 3:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4f064471881908b52b2f64e50a83d completed March 14, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4f1fae7ac8190909b05c0d685e377 completed March 14, 2026, 5:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4f29e5fb48190982ab2844eb8c179 completed March 14, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:15 p.m.