Triple

T21137270
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hou Hanshu E520844 entity
Predicate describes P264 FINISHED
Object Western Regions NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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 Regions | Statement: [Hou Hanshu, describes, Western Regions]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Regions
Context triple: [Hou Hanshu, describes, Western Regions]
  • A. Western Regions chosen
    The Western Regions were the historical territories of Central Asia west of China’s Yumen Pass, encompassing key Silk Road oasis states and trade routes that linked China with the Middle East and Europe.
  • B. Western China
    Western China is the vast, often sparsely populated region of China that includes areas such as Xinjiang and Tibet, characterized by deserts, high plateaus, and significant ethnic and cultural diversity.
  • C. Northwest China
    Northwest China is a vast, largely arid and ethnically diverse region of China that includes provinces such as Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, and Xinjiang, known for its Silk Road heritage and significant strategic importance.
  • D. Western Region
    Western Region was one of the major federating units of early post-independence Nigeria, encompassing much of the Yoruba-speaking southwest and serving as a key political and economic center.
  • E. Western Region
    The Western Region is a regional office of the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement responsible for overseeing and regulating coal mining and land reclamation activities in the western United States.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (2 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.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:57 p.m.