Triple

T1407976
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Steve Smith E31738 entity
Predicate closeFriend P8712 FINISHED
Object Toshi Yoshida
Toshi Yoshida is a Japanese woodblock print artist known for his modern interpretations of traditional ukiyo-e techniques and his association with the Yoshida family of artists.
E326124 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: Toshi Yoshida | Statement: [Steve Smith, closeFriend, Toshi Yoshida]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Toshi Yoshida
Context triple: [Steve Smith, closeFriend, Toshi Yoshida]
  • A. Koichi Tanaka
    Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese engineer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for his pioneering work in mass spectrometry, particularly soft laser desorption ionization.
  • B. Masataka Yoshida
    Masataka Yoshida is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder known for his high-contact hitting and on-base skills, who starred in Nippon Professional Baseball before moving to Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox.
  • C. Tatsuhiko Kawashima
    Tatsuhiko Kawashima is a Japanese academic and former professor best known as the father of Princess Kiko of the Japanese Imperial Family.
  • D. Hirofumi Yoshimura
    Hirofumi Yoshimura is a Japanese politician who serves as the governor of Osaka Prefecture and is a prominent figure in regional reform politics.
  • E. Minoru Ōta
    Minoru Ōta was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the defense of the Oroku Peninsula during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II and became known for his final message praising the Okinawan people.
  • 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: Toshi Yoshida
Triple: [Steve Smith, closeFriend, Toshi Yoshida]
Generated description
Toshi Yoshida is a Japanese woodblock print artist known for his modern interpretations of traditional ukiyo-e techniques and his association with the Yoshida family of artists.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Toshi Yoshida
Target entity description: Toshi Yoshida is a Japanese woodblock print artist known for his modern interpretations of traditional ukiyo-e techniques and his association with the Yoshida family of artists.
  • A. Koichi Tanaka
    Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese engineer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for his pioneering work in mass spectrometry, particularly soft laser desorption ionization.
  • B. Masataka Yoshida
    Masataka Yoshida is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder known for his high-contact hitting and on-base skills, who starred in Nippon Professional Baseball before moving to Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox.
  • C. Tatsuhiko Kawashima
    Tatsuhiko Kawashima is a Japanese academic and former professor best known as the father of Princess Kiko of the Japanese Imperial Family.
  • D. Hirofumi Yoshimura
    Hirofumi Yoshimura is a Japanese politician who serves as the governor of Osaka Prefecture and is a prominent figure in regional reform politics.
  • E. Minoru Ōta
    Minoru Ōta was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the defense of the Oroku Peninsula during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II and became known for his final message praising the Okinawan people.
  • 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_69a49918e1f88190ba610f9dc8114578 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c3bf7f0c8190aee96818de6ff4a5 completed March 1, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b20309280c8190ad9a73397e42267c completed March 12, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b203c541fc8190bcba3d74f7b7bd4b completed March 12, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b204516ac8819094f29f6c68d61465 completed March 12, 2026, 12:09 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.