Triple
T3874006
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Kwantung Leased Territory |
E92452
|
entity |
| Predicate | associatedWith |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | South Manchurian Railway Company |
E207953
|
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: South Manchurian Railway Company | Statement: [Kwantung Leased Territory, associatedWith, South Manchurian Railway Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: South Manchurian Railway Company Context triple: [Kwantung Leased Territory, associatedWith, South Manchurian Railway Company]
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A.
South Manchuria Railway Company
chosen
The South Manchuria Railway Company was a powerful Japanese state-backed enterprise that operated railways and administered extensive economic and colonial interests in Manchuria in the early 20th century.
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B.
Nankai Electric Railway
Nankai Electric Railway is a major private railway company in Japan’s Kansai region, operating key commuter and interurban lines connecting Osaka with Wakayama and Kansai International Airport.
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C.
Hankai Tramway Co.
Hankai Tramway Co. is a Japanese private railway company that operates historic streetcar and tram services in the Osaka and Sakai areas.
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D.
Kyushu Railway Company
Kyushu Railway Company is a major Japanese railway operator, commonly known as JR Kyushu, that runs extensive passenger rail services across the Kyushu region.
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E.
South Manchuria Railway track
The South Manchuria Railway track was a strategically vital Japanese-controlled rail line in northeastern China that became infamous as the staged site of the 1931 Mukden Incident, which Japan used as a pretext to invade Manchuria.
- 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_69aed967448c819086c4b358d37b25aa |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aeec59bea08190b1e193f34944a2ee |
completed | March 9, 2026, 3:50 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b5124cdf588190b3b83ee8fb29450a |
completed | March 14, 2026, 7:46 a.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:20 p.m.