Triple

T16138690
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tongzhi Emperor E391595 entity
Predicate notableEvent P259 FINISHED
Object regency of Empress Dowager Cixi
The regency of Empress Dowager Cixi was the period in late Qing dynasty China when Cixi effectively ruled the empire as de facto sovereign, directing state affairs behind the throne of young emperors.
E89777 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: regency of Empress Dowager Cixi | Statement: [Tongzhi Emperor, notableEvent, regency of Empress Dowager Cixi]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: regency of Empress Dowager Cixi
Context triple: [Tongzhi Emperor, notableEvent, regency of Empress Dowager Cixi]
  • A. Tongzhi Restoration
    The Tongzhi Restoration was a mid-19th-century reform movement in the late Qing dynasty that sought to strengthen China through selective modernization and administrative, military, and educational reforms following the devastation of the Taiping Rebellion.
  • B. Qing dynasty
    The Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 and overseeing a vast multiethnic empire before its collapse led to the founding of the Republic of China.
  • C. Empress Dowager Cixi
    Empress Dowager Cixi was a powerful and controversial late Qing dynasty ruler who effectively controlled the Chinese imperial government for nearly half a century.
  • D. Taiping Xingguo
    Taiping Xingguo was an era name used during the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Song dynasty, marking a specific period in early Song imperial history.
  • E. Hongzhi era
    The Hongzhi era was a period of the Ming dynasty under the reign of the Hongzhi Emperor (1488–1505), noted for relatively honest governance and efforts at administrative reform.
  • 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: regency of Empress Dowager Cixi
Triple: [Tongzhi Emperor, notableEvent, regency of Empress Dowager Cixi]
Generated description
The regency of Empress Dowager Cixi was the period in late Qing dynasty China when Cixi effectively ruled the empire as de facto sovereign, directing state affairs behind the throne of young emperors.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: regency of Empress Dowager Cixi
Target entity description: The regency of Empress Dowager Cixi was the period in late Qing dynasty China when Cixi effectively ruled the empire as de facto sovereign, directing state affairs behind the throne of young emperors.
  • A. Tongzhi Restoration
    The Tongzhi Restoration was a mid-19th-century reform movement in the late Qing dynasty that sought to strengthen China through selective modernization and administrative, military, and educational reforms following the devastation of the Taiping Rebellion.
  • B. Qing dynasty
    The Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 and overseeing a vast multiethnic empire before its collapse led to the founding of the Republic of China.
  • C. Empress Dowager Cixi chosen
    Empress Dowager Cixi was a powerful and controversial late Qing dynasty ruler who effectively controlled the Chinese imperial government for nearly half a century.
  • D. Taiping Xingguo
    Taiping Xingguo was an era name used during the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Song dynasty, marking a specific period in early Song imperial history.
  • E. Hongzhi era
    The Hongzhi era was a period of the Ming dynasty under the reign of the Hongzhi Emperor (1488–1505), noted for relatively honest governance and efforts at administrative reform.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d87f1bb0988190b490d273dbf3fd03 completed April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e21a06e0988190b5cd62d422d058a2 completed April 17, 2026, 11:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fff7a304348190bf471f2b9279b806 completed May 10, 2026, 3:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fff8de647481908e820b0e14bc7b76 completed May 10, 2026, 3:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fff94cd32081908205ae383e58d148 completed May 10, 2026, 3:19 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:01 a.m.