Triple

T4955132
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chunichi Dragons E111262 entity
Predicate notablePlayer P304 FINISHED
Object Akinori Otsuka
Akinori Otsuka is a former Japanese professional baseball relief pitcher who starred in Nippon Professional Baseball and later became a successful closer in Major League Baseball.
 E747927 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: Akinori Otsuka | Statement: [Chunichi Dragons, notablePlayer, Akinori Otsuka]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Akinori Otsuka
Context triple: [Chunichi Dragons, notablePlayer, Akinori Otsuka]
  • A. Shigetada Nakanishi
    Shigetada Nakanishi is a Japanese neuroscientist renowned for his pioneering work on neurotransmitter receptors and synaptic transmission.
  • B. Takashi Ozaki
    Takashi Ozaki was a Japanese mountaineer known for pioneering ascents in remote Asian ranges, including leading the first successful climb of Myanmar’s Hkakabo Razi.
  • C. Takatoshi Nishiwaki
    Takatoshi Nishiwaki is a Japanese politician serving as the governor of Kyoto Prefecture.
  • D. Hiroki Ishikawa
    Hiroki Ishikawa is an actor known for portraying the iconic kaiju Godzilla in Japanese monster films.
  • E. Katsuya Eguchi
    Katsuya Eguchi is a veteran Nintendo game designer and producer best known for creating the Animal Crossing series and contributing to numerous major Nintendo titles.
  • 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: Akinori Otsuka
Triple: [Chunichi Dragons, notablePlayer, Akinori Otsuka]
Generated description
Akinori Otsuka is a former Japanese professional baseball relief pitcher who starred in Nippon Professional Baseball and later became a successful closer in Major League Baseball.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Akinori Otsuka
Target entity description: Akinori Otsuka is a former Japanese professional baseball relief pitcher who starred in Nippon Professional Baseball and later became a successful closer in Major League Baseball.
  • A. Shigetada Nakanishi
    Shigetada Nakanishi is a Japanese neuroscientist renowned for his pioneering work on neurotransmitter receptors and synaptic transmission.
  • B. Takashi Ozaki
    Takashi Ozaki was a Japanese mountaineer known for pioneering ascents in remote Asian ranges, including leading the first successful climb of Myanmar’s Hkakabo Razi.
  • C. Takatoshi Nishiwaki
    Takatoshi Nishiwaki is a Japanese politician serving as the governor of Kyoto Prefecture.
  • D. Hiroki Ishikawa
    Hiroki Ishikawa is an actor known for portraying the iconic kaiju Godzilla in Japanese monster films.
  • E. Katsuya Eguchi
    Katsuya Eguchi is a veteran Nintendo game designer and producer best known for creating the Animal Crossing series and contributing to numerous major Nintendo titles.
  • 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_69bd4418390c8190b7e9766a2512ce55 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd71babb44819085b4cd4864433e79 completed March 20, 2026, 4:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cebaee29308190a468b2bc24008428 completed April 2, 2026, 6:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cebc9d4ca88190942c333806181b55 completed April 2, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cec0a9c39c8190a7bcecc6927b98f0 completed April 2, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:32 p.m.