Triple

T22966293
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tokugawa Yorinobu E571055 entity
Predicate allegiance P1201 FINISHED
Object Kii Tokugawa house
The Kii Tokugawa house was one of the three privileged branches of Japan’s Tokugawa clan, ruling the Kii Domain and serving as a key source of potential shogunal successors during the Edo period.
 E1563676 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: Kii Tokugawa house | Statement: [Tokugawa Yorinobu, allegiance, Kii Tokugawa house]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Kii Tokugawa house
Context triple: [Tokugawa Yorinobu, allegiance, Kii Tokugawa house]
  • A. Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa house
    The Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa house is a prominent branch of Japan’s Tokugawa clan from which the last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, descended.
  • B. House of Fushimi-no-miya
    The House of Fushimi-no-miya was one of the four shinnōke branches of Japan’s imperial family, established to provide potential heirs to the Chrysanthemum Throne.
  • C. Tokugawa clan
    The Tokugawa clan was a powerful Japanese samurai family that established and ruled the Tokugawa shogunate, which governed Japan during the Edo period from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
  • D. Akishino-no-miya household
    The Akishino-no-miya household is a branch of Japan’s Imperial Family headed by Prince Akishino, encompassing his immediate family and their official duties and residences.
  • E. Mikasa-no-miya household
    The Mikasa-no-miya household is a collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family established by Prince Mikasa and his descendants.
  • 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: Kii Tokugawa house
Triple: [Tokugawa Yorinobu, allegiance, Kii Tokugawa house]
Generated description
The Kii Tokugawa house was one of the three privileged branches of Japan’s Tokugawa clan, ruling the Kii Domain and serving as a key source of potential shogunal successors during the Edo period.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Kii Tokugawa house
Target entity description: The Kii Tokugawa house was one of the three privileged branches of Japan’s Tokugawa clan, ruling the Kii Domain and serving as a key source of potential shogunal successors during the Edo period.
  • A. Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa house
    The Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa house is a prominent branch of Japan’s Tokugawa clan from which the last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, descended.
  • B. House of Fushimi-no-miya
    The House of Fushimi-no-miya was one of the four shinnōke branches of Japan’s imperial family, established to provide potential heirs to the Chrysanthemum Throne.
  • C. Tokugawa clan
    The Tokugawa clan was a powerful Japanese samurai family that established and ruled the Tokugawa shogunate, which governed Japan during the Edo period from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
  • D. Akishino-no-miya household
    The Akishino-no-miya household is a branch of Japan’s Imperial Family headed by Prince Akishino, encompassing his immediate family and their official duties and residences.
  • E. Mikasa-no-miya household
    The Mikasa-no-miya household is a collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family established by Prince Mikasa and his descendants.
  • 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_69e245b2c6548190a0e4c7f2f7df2d48 completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1822e542c8190a865f18e64fc0768 completed April 29, 2026, 3:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0bca24aab881908c77bac6ee658418 completed May 19, 2026, 2:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0bcb59767881908ada8c0e3907875d completed May 19, 2026, 2:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0bcbec354081909dbeeb389e86d38c completed May 19, 2026, 2:33 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:47 p.m.