Triple

T1134495
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tadamichi Kuribayashi E23106 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object Kenji Shimizu
Kenji Shimizu was an Imperial Japanese Army officer who served as a senior commander before and during World War II.
E138567 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: Kenji Shimizu | Statement: [Tadamichi Kuribayashi, predecessor, Kenji Shimizu]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenji Shimizu
Context triple: [Tadamichi Kuribayashi, predecessor, Kenji Shimizu]
  • A. Kazuyoshi Funaki
    Kazuyoshi Funaki is a Japanese ski jumper best known for winning multiple gold medals and becoming a national hero at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics.
  • B. Hayato Ikeda
    Hayato Ikeda was a Japanese prime minister known for his “income-doubling plan” and for overseeing rapid economic growth and modernization in postwar Japan.
  • C. Yoshitsugu Saito
    Yoshitsugu Saitō was an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general best known for leading Japan’s doomed defense of Saipan during World War II and dying in the battle.
  • D. Kosuke Imai
    Kosuke Imai is a political scientist and statistician known for his contributions to causal inference, experimental design, and statistical methods in the social sciences.
  • E. Akinobu Okada
    Akinobu Okada is a former Japanese professional baseball infielder and manager best known for his long association with Nippon Professional Baseball and leadership roles with the Hanshin Tigers.
  • 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: Kenji Shimizu
Triple: [Tadamichi Kuribayashi, predecessor, Kenji Shimizu]
Generated description
Kenji Shimizu was an Imperial Japanese Army officer who served as a senior commander before and during World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenji Shimizu
Target entity description: Kenji Shimizu was an Imperial Japanese Army officer who served as a senior commander before and during World War II.
  • A. Kazuyoshi Funaki
    Kazuyoshi Funaki is a Japanese ski jumper best known for winning multiple gold medals and becoming a national hero at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics.
  • B. Hayato Ikeda
    Hayato Ikeda was a Japanese prime minister known for his “income-doubling plan” and for overseeing rapid economic growth and modernization in postwar Japan.
  • C. Yoshitsugu Saito
    Yoshitsugu Saitō was an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general best known for leading Japan’s doomed defense of Saipan during World War II and dying in the battle.
  • D. Kosuke Imai
    Kosuke Imai is a political scientist and statistician known for his contributions to causal inference, experimental design, and statistical methods in the social sciences.
  • E. Akinobu Okada
    Akinobu Okada is a former Japanese professional baseball infielder and manager best known for his long association with Nippon Professional Baseball and leadership roles with the Hanshin Tigers.
  • 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_69a493ec75988190b63a11bafaec29b4 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bbfffaa48190b2534ff4da3544ce completed March 1, 2026, 10:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac7f30222081909679902c6e0d4790 completed March 7, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac7fba00f0819086a0fffa090c5809 completed March 7, 2026, 7:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac807ead9c819088f7195aec87a538 completed March 7, 2026, 7:46 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.