Triple

T23358864
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Ningpo E593127 entity
Predicate cityInvolved P10973 FINISHED
Object Ningbo
Ningbo is a major port city in China’s Zhejiang province, historically significant as a coastal trading hub and site of several 19th-century conflicts.
 E17171 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: Ningbo | Statement: [Battle of Ningpo, cityInvolved, Ningbo]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ningbo
Context triple: [Battle of Ningpo, cityInvolved, Ningbo]
  • A. Wenzhou
    Wenzhou is a major coastal city in southeastern Zhejiang Province, China, known for its entrepreneurial culture, export-driven economy, and large overseas Chinese community.
  • B. Jiaxing
    Jiaxing is a historic city in eastern China's Zhejiang province, best known as one of the birthplaces of the Chinese Communist Party and an important regional economic and cultural center.
  • C. Hangzhou
    Hangzhou is a major city in eastern China renowned for its historic West Lake, rich cultural heritage, and role as a key economic and technological hub in the Yangtze River Delta region.
  • D. Ningbo-Zhoushan
    Ningbo-Zhoushan is a major deep-water port complex in eastern China that ranks among the world’s busiest in cargo throughput and serves as a key maritime gateway for global trade.
  • E. Jinhua
    Jinhua is a prefecture-level city in eastern China known for its historical sites, transportation hub role, and famous local ham products.
  • 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: Ningbo
Triple: [Battle of Ningpo, cityInvolved, Ningbo]
Generated description
Ningbo is a major port city in China’s Zhejiang province, historically significant as a coastal trading hub and site of several 19th-century conflicts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ningbo
Target entity description: Ningbo is a major port city in China’s Zhejiang province, historically significant as a coastal trading hub and site of several 19th-century conflicts.
  • A. Wenzhou
    Wenzhou is a major coastal city in southeastern Zhejiang Province, China, known for its entrepreneurial culture, export-driven economy, and large overseas Chinese community.
  • B. Jiaxing
    Jiaxing is a historic city in eastern China's Zhejiang province, best known as one of the birthplaces of the Chinese Communist Party and an important regional economic and cultural center.
  • C. Hangzhou
    Hangzhou is a major city in eastern China renowned for its historic West Lake, rich cultural heritage, and role as a key economic and technological hub in the Yangtze River Delta region.
  • D. Ningbo-Zhoushan chosen
    Ningbo-Zhoushan is a major deep-water port complex in eastern China that ranks among the world’s busiest in cargo throughput and serves as a key maritime gateway for global trade.
  • E. Jinhua
    Jinhua is a prefecture-level city in eastern China known for its historical sites, transportation hub role, and famous local ham products.
  • F. None of above.

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_69e25d24d2a4819092e6ede74c2a918d completed April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f19a196b308190bfe9bb4b6e7ec363 completed April 29, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c678920f08190b4175ce445105b40 completed May 19, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c7213e19881909151fe5c0560e096 completed May 19, 2026, 2:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c76ed37b08190af81b4ae2dc7c028 completed May 19, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:29 p.m.