Triple

T1226953
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Opium Wars E26348 entity
Predicate hasCause P708 FINISHED
Object British opium trade in China
The British opium trade in China was a 19th-century system of illicit narcotics commerce, largely driven by British merchants and the East India Company, that flooded China with opium, destabilized its society and economy, and ultimately provoked the Opium Wars.
E140347 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: British opium trade in China | Statement: [Opium Wars, hasCause, British opium trade in China]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British opium trade in China
Context triple: [Opium Wars, hasCause, British opium trade in China]
  • A. Opium Wars
    The Opium Wars were two mid-19th-century conflicts between China and Western powers, primarily Britain, that forced open Chinese trade and marked a key turning point in the era of Western imperialism in Asia.
  • B. British concession in Canton
    The British concession in Canton was a foreign-controlled enclave in Guangzhou, China, established in the 19th century as part of the treaty port system that facilitated British trade and extraterritorial rights.
  • C. Ming and Qing Chinese maritime trade restrictions
    Ming and Qing Chinese maritime trade restrictions were a series of imperial policies that tightly controlled or prohibited private overseas commerce, limiting foreign contact and concentrating seaborne trade in state-sanctioned channels.
  • D. The History of British India
    The History of British India is an early 19th-century, multi-volume historical and philosophical account of British rule in India that strongly influenced colonial policy and Victorian views of Indian society.
  • E. The Siege at Peking
    The Siege at Peking is a historical narrative by British writer Peter Fleming that recounts the 1900 Boxer Rebellion and the defense of the foreign legations in Beijing.
  • 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: British opium trade in China
Triple: [Opium Wars, hasCause, British opium trade in China]
Generated description
The British opium trade in China was a 19th-century system of illicit narcotics commerce, largely driven by British merchants and the East India Company, that flooded China with opium, destabilized its society and economy, and ultimately provoked the Opium Wars.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British opium trade in China
Target entity description: The British opium trade in China was a 19th-century system of illicit narcotics commerce, largely driven by British merchants and the East India Company, that flooded China with opium, destabilized its society and economy, and ultimately provoked the Opium Wars.
  • A. Opium Wars
    The Opium Wars were two mid-19th-century conflicts between China and Western powers, primarily Britain, that forced open Chinese trade and marked a key turning point in the era of Western imperialism in Asia.
  • B. British concession in Canton
    The British concession in Canton was a foreign-controlled enclave in Guangzhou, China, established in the 19th century as part of the treaty port system that facilitated British trade and extraterritorial rights.
  • C. Ming and Qing Chinese maritime trade restrictions
    Ming and Qing Chinese maritime trade restrictions were a series of imperial policies that tightly controlled or prohibited private overseas commerce, limiting foreign contact and concentrating seaborne trade in state-sanctioned channels.
  • D. The History of British India
    The History of British India is an early 19th-century, multi-volume historical and philosophical account of British rule in India that strongly influenced colonial policy and Victorian views of Indian society.
  • E. The Siege at Peking
    The Siege at Peking is a historical narrative by British writer Peter Fleming that recounts the 1900 Boxer Rebellion and the defense of the foreign legations in Beijing.
  • 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_69a49484688c8190a1bf285eb396a8b6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4be3b32a08190a36e96a3e51976eb completed March 1, 2026, 10:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac8a1242048190ba6ffcaacc4ca5d5 completed March 7, 2026, 8:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac8a9d03c8819097cea548a31d866d completed March 7, 2026, 8:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac8b041e188190ac9e1ce2c2728c94 completed March 7, 2026, 8:31 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.