Triple

T12017669
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tokugawa Iemitsu E286067 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object Tokugawa Ietsuna
Tokugawa Ietsuna was the fourth shogun of Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate, ruling during a relatively peaceful period in the early Edo era and maintaining the political systems established by his predecessors.
E999443 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: Tokugawa Ietsuna | Statement: [Tokugawa Iemitsu, successor, Tokugawa Ietsuna]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tokugawa Ietsuna
Context triple: [Tokugawa Iemitsu, successor, Tokugawa Ietsuna]
  • A. Tokugawa Iemitsu
    Tokugawa Iemitsu was the third shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty in Japan, known for consolidating shogunal power, enforcing national seclusion (sakoku), and strengthening centralized rule during the early Edo period.
  • B. Tokugawa Tadanaga
    Tokugawa Tadanaga was a Tokugawa shogunate-era Japanese daimyō and younger brother of shōgun Tokugawa Iemitsu, known for his tragic downfall in early Edo-period succession struggles.
  • C. Tokugawa Yorinobu
    Tokugawa Yorinobu was a powerful early Edo-period daimyō of the Tokugawa clan, best known as the first lord of the Kii Domain and a key figure in consolidating Tokugawa rule in western Japan.
  • D. Tokugawa Hidetada
    Tokugawa Hidetada was the second shogun of Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate, who consolidated his father Ieyasu’s rule and oversaw the early Edo period.
  • E. Tokugawa Yorifusa
    Tokugawa Yorifusa was a prominent early Edo-period Japanese daimyō and founder of the Mito branch of the Tokugawa clan.
  • 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: Tokugawa Ietsuna
Triple: [Tokugawa Iemitsu, successor, Tokugawa Ietsuna]
Generated description
Tokugawa Ietsuna was the fourth shogun of Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate, ruling during a relatively peaceful period in the early Edo era and maintaining the political systems established by his predecessors.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tokugawa Ietsuna
Target entity description: Tokugawa Ietsuna was the fourth shogun of Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate, ruling during a relatively peaceful period in the early Edo era and maintaining the political systems established by his predecessors.
  • A. Tokugawa Iemitsu
    Tokugawa Iemitsu was the third shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty in Japan, known for consolidating shogunal power, enforcing national seclusion (sakoku), and strengthening centralized rule during the early Edo period.
  • B. Tokugawa Tadanaga
    Tokugawa Tadanaga was a Tokugawa shogunate-era Japanese daimyō and younger brother of shōgun Tokugawa Iemitsu, known for his tragic downfall in early Edo-period succession struggles.
  • C. Tokugawa Yorinobu
    Tokugawa Yorinobu was a powerful early Edo-period daimyō of the Tokugawa clan, best known as the first lord of the Kii Domain and a key figure in consolidating Tokugawa rule in western Japan.
  • D. Tokugawa Hidetada
    Tokugawa Hidetada was the second shogun of Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate, who consolidated his father Ieyasu’s rule and oversaw the early Edo period.
  • E. Tokugawa Yorifusa
    Tokugawa Yorifusa was a prominent early Edo-period Japanese daimyō and founder of the Mito branch of the Tokugawa clan.
  • 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_69d6ab45a368819084fce08bf0dc3705 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d903dabf2c819084dcaa05ae0a6018 completed April 10, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f67c5e9fbc819097cf9550378eabee completed May 2, 2026, 10:36 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f67d64ed3481908d434c20796866f9 completed May 2, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f67e82e35081909c4b5fad7e941610 completed May 2, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:47 p.m.