Triple

T14878712
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Born Chinese E349936 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Wei-Chen
Wei-Chen is a central character in the graphic novel "American Born Chinese," portrayed as a Taiwanese immigrant whose friendship with the protagonist explores themes of identity, culture, and assimilation.
E1125305 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: Wei-Chen | Statement: [American Born Chinese, featuresCharacter, Wei-Chen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wei-Chen
Context triple: [American Born Chinese, featuresCharacter, Wei-Chen]
  • A. Wei-Wei
    Wei-Wei is a central character in Ang Lee’s film "The Wedding Banquet," a young Chinese woman who enters a marriage of convenience that becomes emotionally complicated.
  • B. Chih-chung
    Chih-chung is an alternative romanization of the Chinese given name Zhizhong, used in older or non–pinyin transcription systems.
  • C. Fala Chen
    Fala Chen is a Chinese-American actress known for her work in both Asian television dramas and Hollywood films, including roles in major franchises.
  • D. Hsiao-wen
    Hsiao-wen is the given name of Chiang Hsiao-wen, a member of the Chiang family associated with modern Chinese political history.
  • E. Steven Shih Chen
    Steven Shih Chen is a Taiwanese-American internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of YouTube.
  • 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: Wei-Chen
Triple: [American Born Chinese, featuresCharacter, Wei-Chen]
Generated description
Wei-Chen is a central character in the graphic novel "American Born Chinese," portrayed as a Taiwanese immigrant whose friendship with the protagonist explores themes of identity, culture, and assimilation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wei-Chen
Target entity description: Wei-Chen is a central character in the graphic novel "American Born Chinese," portrayed as a Taiwanese immigrant whose friendship with the protagonist explores themes of identity, culture, and assimilation.
  • A. Wei-Wei
    Wei-Wei is a central character in Ang Lee’s film "The Wedding Banquet," a young Chinese woman who enters a marriage of convenience that becomes emotionally complicated.
  • B. Chih-chung
    Chih-chung is an alternative romanization of the Chinese given name Zhizhong, used in older or non–pinyin transcription systems.
  • C. Fala Chen
    Fala Chen is a Chinese-American actress known for her work in both Asian television dramas and Hollywood films, including roles in major franchises.
  • D. Hsiao-wen
    Hsiao-wen is the given name of Chiang Hsiao-wen, a member of the Chiang family associated with modern Chinese political history.
  • E. Steven Shih Chen
    Steven Shih Chen is a Taiwanese-American internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of YouTube.
  • 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_69d822ee4f408190b6ac3b2fa434f0df completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded5e622388190b2bf91cd10b9821d completed April 15, 2026, 12:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe6b5670108190b41ef95dc318be60 completed May 8, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe6d3aa2f08190b02c6157c03a2ba5 completed May 8, 2026, 11:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe6db30e9c81908fbad7b932799a7a completed May 8, 2026, 11:11 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:55 a.m.