Triple
T589155
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Battle of Beiping–Tianjin |
E17227
|
entity |
| Predicate | theater |
P1060
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
North China theater of the Second Sino-Japanese War
The North China theater of the Second Sino-Japanese War was a major military region where Chinese and Japanese forces fought for control of northern China, including key cities, railways, and strategic plains.
|
E73560
|
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: North China theater of the Second Sino-Japanese War | Statement: [Battle of Beiping–Tianjin, theater, North China theater of the Second Sino-Japanese War]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: North China theater of the Second Sino-Japanese War Context triple: [Battle of Beiping–Tianjin, theater, North China theater of the Second Sino-Japanese War]
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A.
Central China Front
The Central China Front was a major Japanese military formation responsible for conducting operations in central China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, including the Wuhan campaign.
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B.
Chinese Civil War (early phase)
The early phase of the Chinese Civil War was a protracted conflict in the 1920s–1930s between the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) and the Chinese Communist Party that shaped the political and military landscape of Republican-era China before the Second World War.
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C.
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) was a major conflict between China and Japan that became one of the largest and bloodiest theaters of World War II in East Asia.
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D.
Battle of Beiping–Tianjin
The Battle of Beiping–Tianjin was an early major campaign of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, in which Japanese forces captured the key northern Chinese cities of Beiping (Beijing) and Tianjin.
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E.
Battle of Shanghai (1937)
The Battle of Shanghai (1937) was one of the largest and bloodiest early engagements of the Second Sino-Japanese War, marking a major urban conflict between Chinese and Japanese forces that signaled the war’s escalation.
- 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: North China theater of the Second Sino-Japanese War Triple: [Battle of Beiping–Tianjin, theater, North China theater of the Second Sino-Japanese War]
Generated description
The North China theater of the Second Sino-Japanese War was a major military region where Chinese and Japanese forces fought for control of northern China, including key cities, railways, and strategic plains.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: North China theater of the Second Sino-Japanese War Target entity description: The North China theater of the Second Sino-Japanese War was a major military region where Chinese and Japanese forces fought for control of northern China, including key cities, railways, and strategic plains.
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A.
Japanese occupation of North China
chosen
The Japanese occupation of North China was the period during the Second Sino-Japanese War when Imperial Japan seized and controlled large areas of northern China, imposing military rule and exploiting the region’s resources and population.
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B.
Central China Front
The Central China Front was a major Japanese military formation responsible for conducting operations in central China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, including the Wuhan campaign.
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C.
Chinese Civil War (early phase)
The early phase of the Chinese Civil War was a protracted conflict in the 1920s–1930s between the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) and the Chinese Communist Party that shaped the political and military landscape of Republican-era China before the Second World War.
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D.
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) was a major conflict between China and Japan that became one of the largest and bloodiest theaters of World War II in East Asia.
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E.
Battle of Beiping–Tianjin
The Battle of Beiping–Tianjin was an early major campaign of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, in which Japanese forces captured the key northern Chinese cities of Beiping (Beijing) and Tianjin.
- F. None of above.
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_69a49379d09c8190ac7e00b24e2810b1 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a49bb775fc819085b968f8615dca59 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:04 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a5103be4b881908fcd20c4c781c0a0 |
completed | March 2, 2026, 4:21 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a5140f86148190b9f3dd70fa6b0f42 |
completed | March 2, 2026, 4:37 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a5146662488190b2d9024d6d999fa3 |
completed | March 2, 2026, 4:39 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.