Triple

T1007418
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Confucianism E21744 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object Xunzi
Xunzi was an influential ancient Chinese Confucian philosopher known for his belief in the inherent badness of human nature and the necessity of ritual and education to cultivate virtue.
E125544 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: Xunzi | Statement: [Confucianism, associatedWith, Xunzi]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Xunzi
Context triple: [Confucianism, associatedWith, Xunzi]
  • A. Mencius
    Mencius is a foundational Confucian text recording the teachings and dialogues of the philosopher Mencius, emphasizing the innate goodness of human nature and moral governance.
  • B. Confucius
    Confucius was an ancient Chinese philosopher and teacher whose ethical, social, and political ideas became the foundation of Confucianism and deeply shaped East Asian civilization.
  • C. Zhu Xi
    Zhu Xi was a 12th-century Chinese philosopher and scholar whose synthesis of Confucian thought became the foundation of Neo-Confucianism and dominated East Asian intellectual life for centuries.
  • D. He Zizhen
    He Zizhen was a Chinese revolutionary and early Communist Party member best known as one of Mao Zedong’s wives and a participant in the Long March.
  • E. Wang Yangming
    Wang Yangming was a prominent Ming dynasty Neo-Confucian philosopher, statesman, and general best known for his influential doctrine of the unity of knowledge and action and the innate moral knowledge of the mind.
  • 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: Xunzi
Triple: [Confucianism, associatedWith, Xunzi]
Generated description
Xunzi was an influential ancient Chinese Confucian philosopher known for his belief in the inherent badness of human nature and the necessity of ritual and education to cultivate virtue.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Xunzi
Target entity description: Xunzi was an influential ancient Chinese Confucian philosopher known for his belief in the inherent badness of human nature and the necessity of ritual and education to cultivate virtue.
  • A. Mencius
    Mencius is a foundational Confucian text recording the teachings and dialogues of the philosopher Mencius, emphasizing the innate goodness of human nature and moral governance.
  • B. Confucius
    Confucius was an ancient Chinese philosopher and teacher whose ethical, social, and political ideas became the foundation of Confucianism and deeply shaped East Asian civilization.
  • C. Zhu Xi
    Zhu Xi was a 12th-century Chinese philosopher and scholar whose synthesis of Confucian thought became the foundation of Neo-Confucianism and dominated East Asian intellectual life for centuries.
  • D. He Zizhen
    He Zizhen was a Chinese revolutionary and early Communist Party member best known as one of Mao Zedong’s wives and a participant in the Long March.
  • E. Wang Yangming
    Wang Yangming was a prominent Ming dynasty Neo-Confucian philosopher, statesman, and general best known for his influential doctrine of the unity of knowledge and action and the innate moral knowledge of the mind.
  • 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_69a493c53e648190ae8cb76c433fd9a7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b7570b388190ada9693935792a58 completed March 1, 2026, 10:01 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac4c0ef95081909ddc4ec480248572 completed March 7, 2026, 4:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac4c9162a88190817354ad9aec1d04 completed March 7, 2026, 4:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac4d3f62c881908e189bfe8cbbd2ac completed March 7, 2026, 4:07 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.