Triple

T4008172
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Qianlong Emperor E89576 entity
Predicate notableEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Macartney Embassy of 1793
The Macartney Embassy of 1793 was the first British diplomatic mission to China, led by Lord George Macartney to the court of the Qianlong Emperor in an unsuccessful attempt to expand trade and establish formal relations.
E406603 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: Macartney Embassy of 1793 | Statement: [Qianlong Emperor, notableEvent, Macartney Embassy of 1793]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Macartney Embassy of 1793
Context triple: [Qianlong Emperor, notableEvent, Macartney Embassy of 1793]
  • A. Drake–Norris Expedition
    The Drake–Norris Expedition was a large but ultimately unsuccessful 1589 English naval campaign against Spain, launched shortly after the Spanish Armada in an attempt to cripple Spanish power and support Portuguese rebels.
  • B. First voyage of James Cook
    The First voyage of James Cook was an 18th-century British expedition to the Pacific Ocean during which Cook charted New Zealand and Australia’s eastern coastline and conducted astronomical and scientific observations.
  • C. Challenger expedition
    The Challenger expedition was a pioneering 19th-century scientific voyage that laid the foundations of modern oceanography through systematic deep-sea exploration and data collection.
  • D. Transglobe Expedition
    The Transglobe Expedition was a pioneering 1979–1982 journey that became the first successful circumnavigation of the Earth via both the North and South Poles.
  • E. voyage of Louis Antoine de Bougainville
    The voyage of Louis Antoine de Bougainville was an 18th-century French circumnavigation of the globe that contributed significantly to European geographic knowledge and Enlightenment-era encounters with Pacific societies.
  • 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: Macartney Embassy of 1793
Triple: [Qianlong Emperor, notableEvent, Macartney Embassy of 1793]
Generated description
The Macartney Embassy of 1793 was the first British diplomatic mission to China, led by Lord George Macartney to the court of the Qianlong Emperor in an unsuccessful attempt to expand trade and establish formal relations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Macartney Embassy of 1793
Target entity description: The Macartney Embassy of 1793 was the first British diplomatic mission to China, led by Lord George Macartney to the court of the Qianlong Emperor in an unsuccessful attempt to expand trade and establish formal relations.
  • A. Drake–Norris Expedition
    The Drake–Norris Expedition was a large but ultimately unsuccessful 1589 English naval campaign against Spain, launched shortly after the Spanish Armada in an attempt to cripple Spanish power and support Portuguese rebels.
  • B. First voyage of James Cook
    The First voyage of James Cook was an 18th-century British expedition to the Pacific Ocean during which Cook charted New Zealand and Australia’s eastern coastline and conducted astronomical and scientific observations.
  • C. Challenger expedition
    The Challenger expedition was a pioneering 19th-century scientific voyage that laid the foundations of modern oceanography through systematic deep-sea exploration and data collection.
  • D. Transglobe Expedition
    The Transglobe Expedition was a pioneering 1979–1982 journey that became the first successful circumnavigation of the Earth via both the North and South Poles.
  • E. voyage of Louis Antoine de Bougainville
    The voyage of Louis Antoine de Bougainville was an 18th-century French circumnavigation of the globe that contributed significantly to European geographic knowledge and Enlightenment-era encounters with Pacific societies.
  • 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_69aed9585e788190bec2d39deba3750f completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefa647f80819081180eb267f1cfcc completed March 9, 2026, 4:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b54c6ae0ec819099c229a4cfe926f2 completed March 14, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b54d41fa008190972411203c8a07f2 completed March 14, 2026, 11:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b54de8dc708190b83978b15aed2e13 completed March 14, 2026, noon
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:34 p.m.