Triple

T2320586
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Self-Strengthening Movement E51169 entity
Predicate keyFigure P256 FINISHED
Object Zhang Zhidong
Zhang Zhidong was a prominent late Qing dynasty official and reformer who championed selective modernization of China’s military, industry, and education while preserving Confucian traditions.
E262010 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: Zhang Zhidong | Statement: [Self-Strengthening Movement, keyFigure, Zhang Zhidong]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zhang Zhidong
Context triple: [Self-Strengthening Movement, keyFigure, Zhang Zhidong]
  • A. Zuo Zongtang
    Zuo Zongtang was a prominent late Qing dynasty statesman and military leader best known for his role in modernizing China’s military and suppressing major rebellions during the Self-Strengthening Movement.
  • B. Li Hongzhang
    Li Hongzhang was a prominent late Qing dynasty statesman, diplomat, and military leader who played a key role in China's self-strengthening efforts and negotiations with foreign powers.
  • C. Zeng Guofan
    Zeng Guofan was a prominent late Qing dynasty statesman, military leader, and Confucian scholar best known for organizing the Xiang Army to suppress the Taiping Rebellion and for spearheading early modernization efforts in China.
  • D. Sheng Xuanhuai
    Sheng Xuanhuai was a late Qing dynasty Chinese industrialist and statesman who played a key role in China's early modernization, particularly in industry, commerce, and education.
  • E. Tang Shengzhi
    Tang Shengzhi was a Chinese Nationalist general best known for his controversial leadership during the Second Sino-Japanese War, particularly in the defense and fall of Nanjing in 1937.
  • 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: Zhang Zhidong
Triple: [Self-Strengthening Movement, keyFigure, Zhang Zhidong]
Generated description
Zhang Zhidong was a prominent late Qing dynasty official and reformer who championed selective modernization of China’s military, industry, and education while preserving Confucian traditions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zhang Zhidong
Target entity description: Zhang Zhidong was a prominent late Qing dynasty official and reformer who championed selective modernization of China’s military, industry, and education while preserving Confucian traditions.
  • A. Zuo Zongtang
    Zuo Zongtang was a prominent late Qing dynasty statesman and military leader best known for his role in modernizing China’s military and suppressing major rebellions during the Self-Strengthening Movement.
  • B. Li Hongzhang
    Li Hongzhang was a prominent late Qing dynasty statesman, diplomat, and military leader who played a key role in China's self-strengthening efforts and negotiations with foreign powers.
  • C. Zeng Guofan
    Zeng Guofan was a prominent late Qing dynasty statesman, military leader, and Confucian scholar best known for organizing the Xiang Army to suppress the Taiping Rebellion and for spearheading early modernization efforts in China.
  • D. Sheng Xuanhuai
    Sheng Xuanhuai was a late Qing dynasty Chinese industrialist and statesman who played a key role in China's early modernization, particularly in industry, commerce, and education.
  • E. Tang Shengzhi
    Tang Shengzhi was a Chinese Nationalist general best known for his controversial leadership during the Second Sino-Japanese War, particularly in the defense and fall of Nanjing in 1937.
  • 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_69a88b074b908190ae983dbca7757d88 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc632474c8190972b4611a3a4ff8f completed March 7, 2026, 6:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aeb3bbea88819089f069be4d369692 completed March 9, 2026, 11:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aeb46f882881909294a3698ead865e completed March 9, 2026, 11:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aeb4c715a88190b1009a2cf1d95441 completed March 9, 2026, 11:53 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:49 p.m.