Triple

T17864740
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gavin Menzies E446664 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object 1421: The Year China Discovered the World
"1421: The Year China Discovered the World" is a controversial historical book by Gavin Menzies that argues Chinese fleets explored and mapped much of the world decades before European voyages of discovery.
E1291640 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: 1421: The Year China Discovered the World | Statement: [Gavin Menzies, notableWork, 1421: The Year China Discovered the World]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1421: The Year China Discovered the World
Context triple: [Gavin Menzies, notableWork, 1421: The Year China Discovered the World]
  • A. The Discoverers
    The Discoverers is a 2012 American comedy-drama film in which Griffin Dunne plays a beleaguered history professor forced into a dysfunctional family road trip that intersects with a group of historical reenactors.
  • B. China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power
    "China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power" is a nonfiction book by journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn that offers an in-depth, on-the-ground portrait of China's political, social, and economic transformation in the late 20th century.
  • C. After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405
    After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405 is a major historical study by John Darwin that examines the rise and transformation of global empires from the early 15th century to the modern era.
  • D. The Chinese Renaissance
    The Chinese Renaissance is an influential collection of essays and lectures by Hu Shi that advocates for literary reform, vernacular language, and cultural modernization in early 20th-century China.
  • E. Empires of the Mind
    Empires of the Mind is a motivational and self-development book by Denis Waitley that explores how mindset and personal responsibility shape success in the modern world.
  • 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: 1421: The Year China Discovered the World
Triple: [Gavin Menzies, notableWork, 1421: The Year China Discovered the World]
Generated description
"1421: The Year China Discovered the World" is a controversial historical book by Gavin Menzies that argues Chinese fleets explored and mapped much of the world decades before European voyages of discovery.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1421: The Year China Discovered the World
Target entity description: "1421: The Year China Discovered the World" is a controversial historical book by Gavin Menzies that argues Chinese fleets explored and mapped much of the world decades before European voyages of discovery.
  • A. The Discoverers
    The Discoverers is a 2012 American comedy-drama film in which Griffin Dunne plays a beleaguered history professor forced into a dysfunctional family road trip that intersects with a group of historical reenactors.
  • B. China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power
    "China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power" is a nonfiction book by journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn that offers an in-depth, on-the-ground portrait of China's political, social, and economic transformation in the late 20th century.
  • C. After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405
    After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405 is a major historical study by John Darwin that examines the rise and transformation of global empires from the early 15th century to the modern era.
  • D. The Chinese Renaissance
    The Chinese Renaissance is an influential collection of essays and lectures by Hu Shi that advocates for literary reform, vernacular language, and cultural modernization in early 20th-century China.
  • E. Empires of the Mind
    Empires of the Mind is a motivational and self-development book by Denis Waitley that explores how mindset and personal responsibility shape success in the modern world.
  • 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_69d8b9f4c22c819093c2680434472894 completed April 10, 2026, 8:51 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e49792ccf88190a0984963bb385688 completed April 19, 2026, 8:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a030c69cd608190b25002100fc0f9e3 completed May 12, 2026, 11:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a030ce6e0248190854acf6ad772cb08 completed May 12, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a030d4d117c8190a115b86df7990087 completed May 12, 2026, 11:21 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:17 a.m.