Triple

T447855
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Burma (until 1937) E7059 entity
Predicate ethnicGroups P1898 FINISHED
Object Shan
The Shan are a Tai ethnic group primarily inhabiting Myanmar's Shan State, known for their distinct language, Buddhist traditions, and historical Shan principalities.
 E56815 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: Shan | Statement: [Burma (until 1937), ethnicGroups, Shan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Shan
Context triple: [Burma (until 1937), ethnicGroups, Shan]
  • A. Chun
    Chun is the given name of Peng Chun Chang, a prominent Chinese philosopher and diplomat who helped draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
  • B. Sibi
    Sibi is a historic town and district in the Balochistan region of Pakistan, known for its hot climate and traditional annual cattle and horse fair.
  • C. Nain
    Nain is a remote coastal town in northern Labrador, Canada, known as the administrative center of the Inuit region of Nunatsiavut.
  • D. Daza
    The Daza are an ethnic group of the central Sahara, primarily in Chad, known for their nomadic pastoralist lifestyle and close cultural and linguistic ties to the Toubou (Tebu) peoples.
  • E. Xuan
    Xuan is a Vietnamese surname commonly used as a family name in Vietnam.
  • 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: Shan
Triple: [Burma (until 1937), ethnicGroups, Shan]
Generated description
The Shan are a Tai ethnic group primarily inhabiting Myanmar's Shan State, known for their distinct language, Buddhist traditions, and historical Shan principalities.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Shan
Target entity description: The Shan are a Tai ethnic group primarily inhabiting Myanmar's Shan State, known for their distinct language, Buddhist traditions, and historical Shan principalities.
  • A. Chun
    Chun is the given name of Peng Chun Chang, a prominent Chinese philosopher and diplomat who helped draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
  • B. Sibi
    Sibi is a historic town and district in the Balochistan region of Pakistan, known for its hot climate and traditional annual cattle and horse fair.
  • C. Nain
    Nain is a remote coastal town in northern Labrador, Canada, known as the administrative center of the Inuit region of Nunatsiavut.
  • D. Daza
    The Daza are an ethnic group of the central Sahara, primarily in Chad, known for their nomadic pastoralist lifestyle and close cultural and linguistic ties to the Toubou (Tebu) peoples.
  • E. Xuan
    Xuan is a Vietnamese surname commonly used as a family name in Vietnam.
  • 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_69a2e7e4676c81909ea0dbdecac0687c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ef6429e881908aa758da64299a16 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a447fdbcb881908299f7f72a3b7947 completed March 1, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a44a6379188190972dba701e754a48 completed March 1, 2026, 2:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a44ab77d54819088fcc3cf12b8a994 completed March 1, 2026, 2:18 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.