Triple

T499284
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Railway Man E10363 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Hiroyuki Sanada
Hiroyuki Sanada is a Japanese actor renowned for his versatile performances in both Japanese cinema and international films and television series.
E87526 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: Hiroyuki Sanada | Statement: [The Railway Man, starring, Hiroyuki Sanada]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hiroyuki Sanada
Context triple: [The Railway Man, starring, Hiroyuki Sanada]
  • A. Yoshitsugu Saito
    Yoshitsugu Saitō was an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general best known for leading Japan’s doomed defense of Saipan during World War II and dying in the battle.
  • B. Itagaki Taisuke
    Itagaki Taisuke was a leading 19th-century Japanese politician and liberal activist who championed constitutional government and civil rights during the Meiji era.
  • C. Harukichi
    Harukichi is a Japanese given name most notably borne by Harukichi Hyakutake, an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II.
  • D. Mutaguchi Renya
    Mutaguchi Renya was a Japanese general best known for commanding the ill-fated Imphal offensive in Burma during World War II.
  • E. Kume Kunitake
    Kume Kunitake was a Meiji-era Japanese scholar, historian, and statesman best known for documenting the Iwakura Mission’s journey and for his influential writings on Japan’s modernization.
  • 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: Hiroyuki Sanada
Triple: [The Railway Man, starring, Hiroyuki Sanada]
Generated description
Hiroyuki Sanada is a Japanese actor renowned for his versatile performances in both Japanese cinema and international films and television series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hiroyuki Sanada
Target entity description: Hiroyuki Sanada is a Japanese actor renowned for his versatile performances in both Japanese cinema and international films and television series.
  • A. Yoshitsugu Saito
    Yoshitsugu Saitō was an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general best known for leading Japan’s doomed defense of Saipan during World War II and dying in the battle.
  • B. Itagaki Taisuke
    Itagaki Taisuke was a leading 19th-century Japanese politician and liberal activist who championed constitutional government and civil rights during the Meiji era.
  • C. Harukichi
    Harukichi is a Japanese given name most notably borne by Harukichi Hyakutake, an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II.
  • D. Mutaguchi Renya
    Mutaguchi Renya was a Japanese general best known for commanding the ill-fated Imphal offensive in Burma during World War II.
  • E. Kume Kunitake
    Kume Kunitake was a Meiji-era Japanese scholar, historian, and statesman best known for documenting the Iwakura Mission’s journey and for his influential writings on Japan’s modernization.
  • 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_69a2f119b14c8190a5a6b119579c2682 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a64a48e53081908e5d5e093edb5e75 completed March 3, 2026, 2:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a64ad340348190bec2454d5e1c0fa9 completed March 3, 2026, 2:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a64b4e9cec8190a3dcc378f853be0d completed March 3, 2026, 2:45 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.