Triple

T21137265
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hou Hanshu E520844 entity
Predicate notableSection P5600 FINISHED
Object Account of the Xiongnu
Account of the Xiongnu is a historical section in the Chinese chronicle Hou Hanshu that provides a detailed narrative of the Xiongnu nomadic confederation and its relations with the Han dynasty.
E1468430 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: Account of the Xiongnu | Statement: [Hou Hanshu, notableSection, Account of the Xiongnu]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Account of the Xiongnu
Context triple: [Hou Hanshu, notableSection, Account of the Xiongnu]
  • A. Four Commanderies of Han
    The Four Commanderies of Han were Chinese colonial administrative districts established by the Han dynasty in the northern Korean Peninsula and southern Manchuria after the conquest of Gojoseon.
  • B. Qin–Xiongnu conflicts
    The Qin–Xiongnu conflicts were a series of early frontier wars between China’s Qin dynasty and the nomadic Xiongnu that helped shape the Great Wall’s construction and the long-term Han–Xiongnu rivalry.
  • C. Modu Chanyu
    Modu Chanyu was the powerful early ruler of the Xiongnu Empire who unified the nomadic tribes of the eastern Eurasian steppe and became a major rival of Han China.
  • D. Han–Xiongnu War
    The Han–Xiongnu War was a protracted series of military campaigns in the 2nd–1st centuries BCE in which China’s Han dynasty sought to break the power of the nomadic Xiongnu confederation and secure its northern frontiers.
  • E. Oirat Mongols
    The Oirat Mongols were a confederation of western Mongol tribes that became a major Inner Asian power, at times rivaling the Eastern Mongols and founding states such as the Dzungar Khanate.
  • 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: Account of the Xiongnu
Triple: [Hou Hanshu, notableSection, Account of the Xiongnu]
Generated description
Account of the Xiongnu is a historical section in the Chinese chronicle Hou Hanshu that provides a detailed narrative of the Xiongnu nomadic confederation and its relations with the Han dynasty.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Account of the Xiongnu
Target entity description: Account of the Xiongnu is a historical section in the Chinese chronicle Hou Hanshu that provides a detailed narrative of the Xiongnu nomadic confederation and its relations with the Han dynasty.
  • A. Four Commanderies of Han
    The Four Commanderies of Han were Chinese colonial administrative districts established by the Han dynasty in the northern Korean Peninsula and southern Manchuria after the conquest of Gojoseon.
  • B. Qin–Xiongnu conflicts
    The Qin–Xiongnu conflicts were a series of early frontier wars between China’s Qin dynasty and the nomadic Xiongnu that helped shape the Great Wall’s construction and the long-term Han–Xiongnu rivalry.
  • C. Modu Chanyu
    Modu Chanyu was the powerful early ruler of the Xiongnu Empire who unified the nomadic tribes of the eastern Eurasian steppe and became a major rival of Han China.
  • D. Han–Xiongnu War
    The Han–Xiongnu War was a protracted series of military campaigns in the 2nd–1st centuries BCE in which China’s Han dynasty sought to break the power of the nomadic Xiongnu confederation and secure its northern frontiers.
  • E. Oirat Mongols
    The Oirat Mongols were a confederation of western Mongol tribes that became a major Inner Asian power, at times rivaling the Eastern Mongols and founding states such as the Dzungar Khanate.
  • 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_69e0b50b53048190ae34e8abbe3c5ada completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e7235b89188190a6209c0a1839ee03 completed April 21, 2026, 7:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0965f556d881909652d21a62b10874 completed May 17, 2026, 6:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0966f894d48190b6841c35a9aab417 completed May 17, 2026, 6:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a096adfd4248190a26c513278e7b334 completed May 17, 2026, 7:14 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:57 p.m.