Triple

T399374
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject First Sino-Japanese War E9244 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Ding Ruchang
Ding Ruchang was a late Qing dynasty Chinese naval officer best known for leading the Beiyang Fleet during the First Sino-Japanese War.
E62836 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: Ding Ruchang | Statement: [First Sino-Japanese War, commander, Ding Ruchang]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ding Ruchang
Context triple: [First Sino-Japanese War, commander, Ding Ruchang]
  • A. Kun Huang
    Kun Huang was a prominent Chinese physicist and crystallographer known for his influential work in solid-state physics and lattice dynamics.
  • B. He Zizhen
    He Zizhen was a Chinese revolutionary and early Communist Party member best known as one of Mao Zedong’s wives and a participant in the Long March.
  • C. Zhang Fakui
    Zhang Fakui was a prominent Nationalist Chinese general who played key roles in major early battles of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • D. Chen Cheng
    Chen Cheng was a prominent Chinese military leader and politician who played key roles in the Nationalist government and later served as Premier and Vice President of the Republic of China in Taiwan.
  • E. Mao Anqing
    Mao Anqing was the second son of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong, known for his work as a Russian-language translator and his relatively low political profile compared to his father.
  • 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: Ding Ruchang
Triple: [First Sino-Japanese War, commander, Ding Ruchang]
Generated description
Ding Ruchang was a late Qing dynasty Chinese naval officer best known for leading the Beiyang Fleet during the First Sino-Japanese War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ding Ruchang
Target entity description: Ding Ruchang was a late Qing dynasty Chinese naval officer best known for leading the Beiyang Fleet during the First Sino-Japanese War.
  • A. Kun Huang
    Kun Huang was a prominent Chinese physicist and crystallographer known for his influential work in solid-state physics and lattice dynamics.
  • B. He Zizhen
    He Zizhen was a Chinese revolutionary and early Communist Party member best known as one of Mao Zedong’s wives and a participant in the Long March.
  • C. Zhang Fakui
    Zhang Fakui was a prominent Nationalist Chinese general who played key roles in major early battles of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • D. Chen Cheng
    Chen Cheng was a prominent Chinese military leader and politician who played key roles in the Nationalist government and later served as Premier and Vice President of the Republic of China in Taiwan.
  • E. Mao Anqing
    Mao Anqing was the second son of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong, known for his work as a Russian-language translator and his relatively low political profile compared to his father.
  • 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_69a2e8004cb88190b92ed1add6abf41a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec8d0ca881909d786e8eed9b6748 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a48a7526fc8190b2aa91606319909b completed March 1, 2026, 6:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a48c379e608190bd060e6fd838275f completed March 1, 2026, 6:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a48c8cd3c48190a10b0adf73e31fe1 completed March 1, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.