Triple

T29815210
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chinese civilization E757084 entity
Predicate earliestArchaeologicalCulture P178059 FINISHED
Object Erlitou culture
The Erlitou culture was an early Bronze Age society in the Yellow River valley often associated with the formative stages of Chinese state-level civilization and sometimes linked to the legendary Xia dynasty.
 E1790050 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Erlitou culture | Statement: [Chinese civilization, earliestArchaeologicalCulture, Erlitou culture]
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: Erlitou culture
Triple: [Chinese civilization, earliestArchaeologicalCulture, Erlitou culture]
Generated description
The Erlitou culture was an early Bronze Age society in the Yellow River valley often associated with the formative stages of Chinese state-level civilization and sometimes linked to the legendary Xia dynasty.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target predicate: earliestArchaeologicalCulture
Context triple: [Chinese civilization, earliestArchaeologicalCulture, Erlitou culture]
  • A. earliestKnownCivilization
    Indicates that the subject is recognized as the first or oldest known civilization associated with the object (such as a region, culture, or time period).
  • B. earliestCultEvidence
    Indicates the earliest known archaeological or historical evidence for the existence of a particular cult or organized worship practice.
  • C. earliestPermanentSettlement
    Indicates that one entity is the location or instance of the first long-term, continuously inhabited settlement associated with another entity.
  • D. earliestKingdom
    Indicates that one kingdom is the chronologically first or oldest among a specified set of kingdoms.
  • E. earliestKnownPeriod
    Indicates the earliest historical or temporal period in which the subject is known or documented to have existed, occurred, or been relevant.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69f2245701c88190ad42415a0956c4ed completed April 29, 2026, 3:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f707f7959881908f037f0d6b1d0c36 completed May 3, 2026, 8:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a26e5f4ef9081908b393b335821f336 completed June 8, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a26e7d464848190a01f819d89272d92 completed June 8, 2026, 4:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a26ebc90ef8819093125e65021e4169 completed June 8, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69f700fc274c8190a128593dc7c7abd0 completed May 3, 2026, 8:02 a.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69f707f380388190954b79d52a321921 completed May 3, 2026, 8:31 a.m.
Created at: April 29, 2026, 5:26 p.m.