Triple
T23195138
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Letter to Queen Victoria (1839) regarding the opium trade |
E579851
|
entity |
| Predicate | relatedWork |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Lin Zexu’s anti-opium proclamations |
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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: Lin Zexu’s anti-opium proclamations | Statement: [Letter to Queen Victoria (1839) regarding the opium trade, relatedWork, Lin Zexu’s anti-opium proclamations]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lin Zexu’s anti-opium proclamations Context triple: [Letter to Queen Victoria (1839) regarding the opium trade, relatedWork, Lin Zexu’s anti-opium proclamations]
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A.
British opium trade in China
The British opium trade in China was a 19th-century system of illicit narcotics commerce, largely driven by British merchants and the East India Company, that flooded China with opium, destabilized its society and economy, and ultimately provoked the Opium Wars.
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B.
Humen Opium Destruction
chosen
Humen Opium Destruction refers to the 1839 event in which Chinese official Lin Zexu ordered and carried out the large-scale confiscation and destruction of foreign opium at Humen, an act that helped trigger the First Opium War between China and Britain.
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C.
Letter to Queen Victoria (1839) regarding the opium trade
The "Letter to Queen Victoria" (1839) is a famous open letter by Chinese official Lin Zexu condemning the British opium trade and appealing to the British monarch to halt the trafficking of opium into China.
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D.
Shanghai Opium Commission of 1909
The Shanghai Opium Commission of 1909 was an international gathering that marked one of the first major global efforts to investigate and curb the opium trade, laying groundwork for modern international drug control agreements.
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E.
British concession in Canton
The British concession in Canton was a foreign-controlled enclave in Guangzhou, China, established in the 19th century as part of the treaty port system that facilitated British trade and extraterritorial rights.
- 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_69e24600eed08190bd7e5295653a1503 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f18fda64cc8190aeb5ccd8d8d20858 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 4:58 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:06 p.m.