Triple

T493697
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Iwakura Mission E10243 entity
Predicate participant P858 FINISHED
Object Yokoi Shōnan
Yokoi Shōnan was a late Edo and early Meiji-era Japanese political thinker and reformist samurai known for advocating Western-style modernization and national strengthening.
E77142 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: Yokoi Shōnan | Statement: [Iwakura Mission, participant, Yokoi Shōnan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yokoi Shōnan
Context triple: [Iwakura Mission, participant, Yokoi Shōnan]
  • A. Mutaguchi Renya
    Mutaguchi Renya was a Japanese general best known for commanding the ill-fated Imphal offensive in Burma during World War II.
  • B. Andō Rikichi
    Andō Rikichi was a Japanese military officer and colonial administrator who served in prominent leadership roles in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
  • C. Gotō Shinpei
    Gotō Shinpei was a prominent Japanese statesman and colonial administrator known for modernizing Taiwan’s infrastructure and governance during early Japanese rule and later serving in top government posts in Japan.
  • D. Ishizuka Eizō
    Ishizuka Eizō was a Japanese colonial administrator who served as a high-ranking official in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
  • E. Shojiro Iida
    Shojiro Iida was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army who led major operations in Southeast Asia during World War II, particularly in the invasion of Burma.
  • 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: Yokoi Shōnan
Triple: [Iwakura Mission, participant, Yokoi Shōnan]
Generated description
Yokoi Shōnan was a late Edo and early Meiji-era Japanese political thinker and reformist samurai known for advocating Western-style modernization and national strengthening.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yokoi Shōnan
Target entity description: Yokoi Shōnan was a late Edo and early Meiji-era Japanese political thinker and reformist samurai known for advocating Western-style modernization and national strengthening.
  • A. Mutaguchi Renya
    Mutaguchi Renya was a Japanese general best known for commanding the ill-fated Imphal offensive in Burma during World War II.
  • B. Andō Rikichi
    Andō Rikichi was a Japanese military officer and colonial administrator who served in prominent leadership roles in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
  • C. Gotō Shinpei
    Gotō Shinpei was a prominent Japanese statesman and colonial administrator known for modernizing Taiwan’s infrastructure and governance during early Japanese rule and later serving in top government posts in Japan.
  • D. Ishizuka Eizō
    Ishizuka Eizō was a Japanese colonial administrator who served as a high-ranking official in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
  • E. Shojiro Iida
    Shojiro Iida was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army who led major operations in Southeast Asia during World War II, particularly in the invasion of Burma.
  • 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_69a2e847df8481909239ec08ccf1e376 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f0fbfa408190aeb3b93996a35c00 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a55544eda481908fae6a9f77ff9d97 completed March 2, 2026, 9:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a5595a7fac8190944a6b6146623673 completed March 2, 2026, 9:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a559ca6c6881908451d3b024745277 completed March 2, 2026, 9:35 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.