Triple

T19891266
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Blue Fairy Book E478035 entity
Predicate containsWork P2011 FINISHED
Object Why the Sea is Salt
"Why the Sea is Salt" is a traditional folk tale, best known in English through Andrew Lang’s fairy-tale collections, that explains in mythic terms how the sea came to be salty.
E1400174 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: Why the Sea is Salt | Statement: [The Blue Fairy Book, containsWork, Why the Sea is Salt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Why the Sea is Salt
Context triple: [The Blue Fairy Book, containsWork, Why the Sea is Salt]
  • A. A Salty Piece of Land
    A Salty Piece of Land is a 2004 novel by Jimmy Buffett that follows a disillusioned Wyoming cowboy on a whimsical, escapist journey through the Caribbean.
  • B. The Sea Around Us
    The Sea Around Us is a landmark 1951 nonfiction book by marine biologist Rachel Carson that vividly explores the science, history, and wonder of the world’s oceans.
  • C. Our Sea
    "Our Sea" is the English translation of the Latin phrase "Mare Nostrum," historically used by the Romans to refer to the Mediterranean Sea as their own.
  • D. The Drama of the Oceans
    The Drama of the Oceans is a work by Elisabeth Mann Borgese that explores the political, legal, and environmental challenges of governing the world’s oceans.
  • E. The Sea We Would Like to See
    "The Sea We Would Like to See" was the central environmental and ocean-focused theme of Expo '75, emphasizing harmony between humanity and the marine world.
  • 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: Why the Sea is Salt
Triple: [The Blue Fairy Book, containsWork, Why the Sea is Salt]
Generated description
"Why the Sea is Salt" is a traditional folk tale, best known in English through Andrew Lang’s fairy-tale collections, that explains in mythic terms how the sea came to be salty.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Why the Sea is Salt
Target entity description: "Why the Sea is Salt" is a traditional folk tale, best known in English through Andrew Lang’s fairy-tale collections, that explains in mythic terms how the sea came to be salty.
  • A. A Salty Piece of Land
    A Salty Piece of Land is a 2004 novel by Jimmy Buffett that follows a disillusioned Wyoming cowboy on a whimsical, escapist journey through the Caribbean.
  • B. The Sea Around Us
    The Sea Around Us is a landmark 1951 nonfiction book by marine biologist Rachel Carson that vividly explores the science, history, and wonder of the world’s oceans.
  • C. Our Sea
    "Our Sea" is the English translation of the Latin phrase "Mare Nostrum," historically used by the Romans to refer to the Mediterranean Sea as their own.
  • D. The Drama of the Oceans
    The Drama of the Oceans is a work by Elisabeth Mann Borgese that explores the political, legal, and environmental challenges of governing the world’s oceans.
  • E. The Sea We Would Like to See
    "The Sea We Would Like to See" was the central environmental and ocean-focused theme of Expo '75, emphasizing harmony between humanity and the marine world.
  • 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_69d8e51f32b08190b3687f4f60353250 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6590e02388190ab82918750cc2647 completed April 20, 2026, 4:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07dbd3ac148190ba0067cacdf0f5d2 completed May 16, 2026, 2:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07dccbcf788190bb03f396478b77f1 completed May 16, 2026, 2:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07dd7f02d48190955d3b13a95b9c7e completed May 16, 2026, 2:59 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:52 p.m.