Triple

T13711755
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wang Family Compound E328788 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object Shanxi merchants
Shanxi merchants were powerful Chinese merchant groups from Shanxi province who dominated long-distance trade and financial services, especially through their pioneering use of draft banks (piaohao), from the Ming to the late Qing dynasty.
E1056621 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: Shanxi merchants | Statement: [Wang Family Compound, associatedWith, Shanxi merchants]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shanxi merchants
Context triple: [Wang Family Compound, associatedWith, Shanxi merchants]
  • A. Huizhou merchants
    Huizhou merchants were a historically influential group of Chinese traders and financiers from the Huizhou region, renowned for their commercial acumen, extensive trade networks, and patronage of culture during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
  • B. Great Yuan
    Great Yuan is the formal imperial name of the Yuan dynasty, the Mongol-ruled dynasty that governed China in the 13th and 14th centuries.
  • C. Chinese Six Companies
    The Chinese Six Companies was a powerful 19th-century umbrella organization of Chinese district associations in San Francisco that represented and defended Chinese immigrants’ interests, including legal and political opposition to anti-Chinese legislation.
  • D. Gongsi
    Gongsi was the courtesy name of Liu Shan, the second and last emperor of the Shu Han state during China’s Three Kingdoms period.
  • E. Gongsi
    Gongsi is the courtesy name of Sun Liang, a historical Chinese figure from the Three Kingdoms period.
  • 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: Shanxi merchants
Triple: [Wang Family Compound, associatedWith, Shanxi merchants]
Generated description
Shanxi merchants were powerful Chinese merchant groups from Shanxi province who dominated long-distance trade and financial services, especially through their pioneering use of draft banks (piaohao), from the Ming to the late Qing dynasty.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shanxi merchants
Target entity description: Shanxi merchants were powerful Chinese merchant groups from Shanxi province who dominated long-distance trade and financial services, especially through their pioneering use of draft banks (piaohao), from the Ming to the late Qing dynasty.
  • A. Huizhou merchants
    Huizhou merchants were a historically influential group of Chinese traders and financiers from the Huizhou region, renowned for their commercial acumen, extensive trade networks, and patronage of culture during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
  • B. Great Yuan
    Great Yuan is the formal imperial name of the Yuan dynasty, the Mongol-ruled dynasty that governed China in the 13th and 14th centuries.
  • C. Chinese Six Companies
    The Chinese Six Companies was a powerful 19th-century umbrella organization of Chinese district associations in San Francisco that represented and defended Chinese immigrants’ interests, including legal and political opposition to anti-Chinese legislation.
  • D. Gongsi
    Gongsi was the courtesy name of Liu Shan, the second and last emperor of the Shu Han state during China’s Three Kingdoms period.
  • E. Gongsi
    Gongsi is the courtesy name of Sun Liang, a historical Chinese figure from the Three Kingdoms period.
  • 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_69d80770b9bc81909f70c8c317d53cff completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dd4395e8c0819098719c8cd344aa33 completed April 13, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f79d54a68081908df25edf6d5df362 completed May 3, 2026, 7:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f79e1a90408190936cb71e567e10aa completed May 3, 2026, 7:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f79ee74ea48190a4c753b12bb9190e completed May 3, 2026, 7:15 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:54 p.m.