Triple

T16274207
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shirō Ishii E395082 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Shirō
Shirō is a Japanese given name most infamously associated with Shirō Ishii, the Imperial Japanese Army general who led the biological warfare research unit known as Unit 731 during World War II.
 E1237497 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: Shirō | Statement: [Shirō Ishii, givenName, Shirō]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Shirō
Context triple: [Shirō Ishii, givenName, Shirō]
  • A. Shinpei
    Shinpei is a Japanese given name commonly used for males and borne by various notable figures in politics, arts, and entertainment.
  • B. Shinnosuke
    Shinnosuke is a character from the Pokémon anime series, known as a young boy appearing in the episode "The Heartbreak of Brock."
  • C. Mitsuo
    Mitsuo is a Japanese masculine given name borne by various notable individuals in fields such as the military, arts, and sports.
  • D. Shinya
    Shinya is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
  • E. Sanshirō
    Sanshirō is a classic Japanese novel by Natsume Sōseki that follows a naive young man's coming-of-age journey after moving from the countryside to Tokyo in the early 20th century.
  • 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: Shirō
Triple: [Shirō Ishii, givenName, Shirō]
Generated description
Shirō is a Japanese given name most infamously associated with Shirō Ishii, the Imperial Japanese Army general who led the biological warfare research unit known as Unit 731 during World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Shirō
Target entity description: Shirō is a Japanese given name most infamously associated with Shirō Ishii, the Imperial Japanese Army general who led the biological warfare research unit known as Unit 731 during World War II.
  • A. Shinpei
    Shinpei is a Japanese given name commonly used for males and borne by various notable figures in politics, arts, and entertainment.
  • B. Shinnosuke
    Shinnosuke is a character from the Pokémon anime series, known as a young boy appearing in the episode "The Heartbreak of Brock."
  • C. Mitsuo
    Mitsuo is a Japanese masculine given name borne by various notable individuals in fields such as the military, arts, and sports.
  • D. Shinya
    Shinya is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
  • E. Sanshirō
    Sanshirō is a classic Japanese novel by Natsume Sōseki that follows a naive young man's coming-of-age journey after moving from the countryside to Tokyo in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69d87f221d8081909b0b2063e7528ba2 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e2460c2d948190813b66e539a64a70 completed April 17, 2026, 2:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00c28f43988190aa06da8c356b9646 completed May 10, 2026, 5:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00c31d79688190b09754074a0dbafb completed May 10, 2026, 5:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00c38569d081909f20b7cb32ceb714 completed May 10, 2026, 5:42 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:05 a.m.