Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Caodong school E279888 entity
Predicate alternativeName P39 FINISHED
Object Ts'ao-tung school
The Ts'ao-tung school is a major Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist tradition known for emphasizing silent illumination meditation and later giving rise to the Japanese Sōtō Zen school.
E952767 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: Ts'ao-tung school | Statement: [Caodong school, alternativeName, Ts'ao-tung school]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ts'ao-tung school
Context triple: [Caodong school, alternativeName, Ts'ao-tung school]
  • A. Cheng school
    The Cheng school is a renowned stylistic tradition in Peking opera, distinguished by its unique vocal techniques, performance style, and influential lineage of performers.
  • B. Weishi school
    The Weishi school is a Chinese Buddhist tradition that develops and interprets Yogācāra “consciousness-only” philosophy, emphasizing the mind’s role in constructing reality.
  • C. Hongzhou school
    The Hongzhou school was an influential Tang dynasty Chan Buddhist tradition known for its iconoclastic teaching style and emphasis on sudden enlightenment.
  • D. Yunmen school
    The Yunmen school is a major Chan (Zen) Buddhist lineage known for its concise, paradoxical teachings and influential role in the development of Chinese and East Asian Zen.
  • E. Lu-Wang school
    The Lu-Wang school is a major Neo-Confucian philosophical tradition that emphasizes the innate goodness and intuitive moral knowledge of the mind, associated especially with the thinkers Lu Jiuyuan and Wang Yangming.
  • 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: Ts'ao-tung school
Triple: [Caodong school, alternativeName, Ts'ao-tung school]
Generated description
The Ts'ao-tung school is a major Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist tradition known for emphasizing silent illumination meditation and later giving rise to the Japanese Sōtō Zen school.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ts'ao-tung school
Target entity description: The Ts'ao-tung school is a major Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist tradition known for emphasizing silent illumination meditation and later giving rise to the Japanese Sōtō Zen school.
  • A. Cheng school
    The Cheng school is a renowned stylistic tradition in Peking opera, distinguished by its unique vocal techniques, performance style, and influential lineage of performers.
  • B. Weishi school
    The Weishi school is a Chinese Buddhist tradition that develops and interprets Yogācāra “consciousness-only” philosophy, emphasizing the mind’s role in constructing reality.
  • C. Hongzhou school
    The Hongzhou school was an influential Tang dynasty Chan Buddhist tradition known for its iconoclastic teaching style and emphasis on sudden enlightenment.
  • D. Yunmen school
    The Yunmen school is a major Chan (Zen) Buddhist lineage known for its concise, paradoxical teachings and influential role in the development of Chinese and East Asian Zen.
  • E. Lu-Wang school
    The Lu-Wang school is a major Neo-Confucian philosophical tradition that emphasizes the innate goodness and intuitive moral knowledge of the mind, associated especially with the thinkers Lu Jiuyuan and Wang Yangming.
  • 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_69d6ab01d2688190ad8ed6bda487eaa5 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a55c9f988190b203b66a28c767ae completed April 10, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f417604a7c819097a601880b88ea6a completed May 1, 2026, 3 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f41f16f43c81909f5d36e8b4b0b9c3 completed May 1, 2026, 3:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f4225a4b5c8190958aaddbd10035b1 completed May 1, 2026, 3:47 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:41 p.m.