Triple

T18014683
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Later Yan E430970 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object Western Yan
Western Yan was a short-lived Xianbei-led state during China’s Sixteen Kingdoms period, known for its brief rule in the late 4th century following the fragmentation of Former Yan.
E1302201 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: Western Yan | Statement: [Later Yan, successor, Western Yan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Yan
Context triple: [Later Yan, successor, Western Yan]
  • A. Northern Yan
    Northern Yan was a short-lived state during China's Sixteen Kingdoms period, established in the early 5th century and characterized by strong Xianbei tribal and cultural influence.
  • B. Northern Han
    Northern Han was a small Chinese dynasty that ruled parts of northern China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period before being conquered by the Song.
  • C. Mengu-Timur
    Mengu-Timur was a 13th-century khan of the Golden Horde, a division of the Mongol Empire that ruled over parts of Eastern Europe and the Eurasian steppe.
  • D. Northern Wu
    Northern Wu is a major branch of the Wu group of Chinese dialects spoken primarily in the Yangtze River Delta region, including varieties such as Shanghainese.
  • E. Southern Zhuang
    Southern Zhuang is a major branch of the Zhuang language spoken primarily in southern Guangxi, China, characterized by its Tai linguistic roots and distinct phonological and lexical features from Northern Zhuang.
  • 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: Western Yan
Triple: [Later Yan, successor, Western Yan]
Generated description
Western Yan was a short-lived Xianbei-led state during China’s Sixteen Kingdoms period, known for its brief rule in the late 4th century following the fragmentation of Former Yan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Yan
Target entity description: Western Yan was a short-lived Xianbei-led state during China’s Sixteen Kingdoms period, known for its brief rule in the late 4th century following the fragmentation of Former Yan.
  • A. Northern Yan
    Northern Yan was a short-lived state during China's Sixteen Kingdoms period, established in the early 5th century and characterized by strong Xianbei tribal and cultural influence.
  • B. Northern Han
    Northern Han was a small Chinese dynasty that ruled parts of northern China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period before being conquered by the Song.
  • C. Mengu-Timur
    Mengu-Timur was a 13th-century khan of the Golden Horde, a division of the Mongol Empire that ruled over parts of Eastern Europe and the Eurasian steppe.
  • D. Northern Wu
    Northern Wu is a major branch of the Wu group of Chinese dialects spoken primarily in the Yangtze River Delta region, including varieties such as Shanghainese.
  • E. Southern Zhuang
    Southern Zhuang is a major branch of the Zhuang language spoken primarily in southern Guangxi, China, characterized by its Tai linguistic roots and distinct phonological and lexical features from Northern Zhuang.
  • 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_69d8b904530081908bf341d842464856 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4b522e84c8190a03f6445df9f5ac8 completed April 19, 2026, 10:57 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0349a8beec8190ac2e79aa3bce7966 completed May 12, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a034ad3e128819081b4628a759fe941 completed May 12, 2026, 3:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a034b543be08190abe8e8872c834c2b completed May 12, 2026, 3:46 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:24 a.m.