Triple

T17178157
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shanghai film industry E416913 entity
Predicate majorStudio P4742 FINISHED
Object Yihua Film Company
Yihua Film Company was a prominent early 20th-century Chinese film studio based in Shanghai, known for producing influential films during the Republican era.
 E1259855 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: Yihua Film Company | Statement: [Shanghai film industry, majorStudio, Yihua Film Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Yihua Film Company
Context triple: [Shanghai film industry, majorStudio, Yihua Film Company]
  • A. Lianhua Film Company
    Lianhua Film Company was a prominent Chinese film studio of the 1930s, known for its left-leaning, socially conscious productions that helped shape early Chinese cinema.
  • B. Xinhua Film Company
    Xinhua Film Company was a prominent pre-1949 Shanghai film studio known for producing influential Chinese films during the Republican era.
  • C. Mingxing Film Company
    Mingxing Film Company was one of the leading early Chinese film studios, playing a key role in the development of Shanghai’s prewar movie industry.
  • D. Tianyi Film Company
    Tianyi Film Company was one of the pioneering and most influential early Chinese film studios, helping shape the development of commercial cinema in Shanghai and across East Asia in the early 20th century.
  • E. China Film Co., Ltd.
    China Film Co., Ltd. is a major Chinese state-owned film company involved in the production, distribution, and import/export of domestic and international movies.
  • 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: Yihua Film Company
Triple: [Shanghai film industry, majorStudio, Yihua Film Company]
Generated description
Yihua Film Company was a prominent early 20th-century Chinese film studio based in Shanghai, known for producing influential films during the Republican era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Yihua Film Company
Target entity description: Yihua Film Company was a prominent early 20th-century Chinese film studio based in Shanghai, known for producing influential films during the Republican era.
  • A. Lianhua Film Company
    Lianhua Film Company was a prominent Chinese film studio of the 1930s, known for its left-leaning, socially conscious productions that helped shape early Chinese cinema.
  • B. Xinhua Film Company
    Xinhua Film Company was a prominent pre-1949 Shanghai film studio known for producing influential Chinese films during the Republican era.
  • C. Mingxing Film Company
    Mingxing Film Company was one of the leading early Chinese film studios, playing a key role in the development of Shanghai’s prewar movie industry.
  • D. Tianyi Film Company
    Tianyi Film Company was one of the pioneering and most influential early Chinese film studios, helping shape the development of commercial cinema in Shanghai and across East Asia in the early 20th century.
  • E. China Film Co., Ltd.
    China Film Co., Ltd. is a major Chinese state-owned film company involved in the production, distribution, and import/export of domestic and international movies.
  • 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_69d886d5f34c8190b24564dfaa63f3fb completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3fc0ee5008190a73875b39841fd9f completed April 18, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a017938d5c4819098985b01636f7db5 completed May 11, 2026, 6:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0179c9ba48819087532aecec8c0340 completed May 11, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a017ac2fe848190a3a585cd2fd1a05b completed May 11, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:37 a.m.