Triple
T23195139
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Letter to Queen Victoria (1839) regarding the opium trade |
E579851
|
entity |
| Predicate | relatedWork |
P37
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FINISHED |
| Object | Lin Zexu’s memorials to the Daoguang Emperor |
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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 memorials to the Daoguang Emperor | Statement: [Letter to Queen Victoria (1839) regarding the opium trade, relatedWork, Lin Zexu’s memorials to the Daoguang Emperor]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lin Zexu’s memorials to the Daoguang Emperor Context triple: [Letter to Queen Victoria (1839) regarding the opium trade, relatedWork, Lin Zexu’s memorials to the Daoguang Emperor]
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A.
Qianlong Emperor’s letter to King George III
Qianlong Emperor’s letter to King George III is a famous 1793 imperial response that firmly rejected British requests for expanded trade and diplomatic relations, exemplifying Qing China’s assertion of superiority and limited engagement with the West.
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B.
Lin Zexu
chosen
Lin Zexu was a Qing dynasty official and scholar-statesman renowned for his staunch opposition to the opium trade and his pivotal role in events leading up to the First Opium War.
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C.
Family Letters of Zeng Guofan
Family Letters of Zeng Guofan is a renowned collection of personal correspondence by the Qing dynasty statesman and scholar Zeng Guofan, valued for its insights into Confucian ethics, self-cultivation, and family education.
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D.
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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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.