Triple
T3224545
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Li Hongzhang |
E67591
|
entity |
| Predicate | founded |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Beiyang Fleet |
E50951
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Beiyang Fleet | Statement: [Li Hongzhang, founded, Beiyang Fleet]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Beiyang Fleet Context triple: [Li Hongzhang, founded, Beiyang Fleet]
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A.
Beiyang Fleet
chosen
The Beiyang Fleet was the late Qing dynasty’s principal modern naval force, which suffered devastating losses to Japan in the First Sino-Japanese War, marking a turning point in East Asian naval power.
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B.
Beiyang Army
The Beiyang Army was a powerful, modernized military force of late Qing and early Republican China that played a decisive role in the 1911 Revolution and subsequent warlord era.
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C.
Republic of China Navy
The Republic of China Navy is Taiwan’s maritime military force, responsible for defending its territorial waters and sea lanes, particularly in the sensitive Taiwan Strait region.
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D.
Dingyuan
Dingyuan was a late 19th-century Chinese ironclad warship that served as the most powerful vessel of the Qing dynasty’s Beiyang Fleet and played a central role in the First Sino-Japanese War.
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E.
Chinese cruiser Jiyuan
The Chinese cruiser Jiyuan was a protected cruiser of the Beiyang Fleet that saw action in the First Sino-Japanese War, including early engagements such as the Battle of Pungdo.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ad858c61888190a31196310d9b30b5 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adae1ae8f08190880d0f0e8539cdbc |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:12 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b2625eaa708190b23ca6e575d664a2 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 6:51 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:08 p.m.