Triple

T6263129
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British opium trade in China E140347 entity
Predicate linkedTo P37 FINISHED
Object Canton System
The Canton System was an 18th–19th century Chinese trade regime that restricted foreign commerce to the port of Guangzhou (Canton) under strict imperial control, shaping early Western economic relations with China.
E579839 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: Canton System | Statement: [British opium trade in China, linkedTo, Canton System]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Canton System
Context triple: [British opium trade in China, linkedTo, Canton System]
  • A. Indian Ocean trade network
    The Indian Ocean trade network was a vast, centuries-long maritime system connecting East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia through the exchange of goods, cultures, and ideas driven by monsoon winds.
  • B. South Seas Mandate
    The South Seas Mandate was a former League of Nations mandate administered by Japan after World War I, comprising several Pacific islands that later became strategically important in World War II.
  • C. British Resident system
    The British Resident system was a colonial governance arrangement in the Federated Malay States whereby British officials, styled Residents, exercised decisive administrative authority while local rulers retained nominal sovereignty.
  • D. Inter-American system
    The Inter-American system is the network of regional organizations and institutions, centered around the Organization of American States, that coordinate political, security, human rights, and development cooperation among countries in the Americas.
  • E. Yangtze River treaty port system
    The Yangtze River treaty port system was a network of semi-colonial ports along China’s Yangtze River opened to foreign powers by unequal treaties in the 19th and early 20th centuries, facilitating foreign trade, extraterritorial rights, and imperialist influence deep into the Chinese interior.
  • 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: Canton System
Triple: [British opium trade in China, linkedTo, Canton System]
Generated description
The Canton System was an 18th–19th century Chinese trade regime that restricted foreign commerce to the port of Guangzhou (Canton) under strict imperial control, shaping early Western economic relations with China.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Canton System
Target entity description: The Canton System was an 18th–19th century Chinese trade regime that restricted foreign commerce to the port of Guangzhou (Canton) under strict imperial control, shaping early Western economic relations with China.
  • A. Indian Ocean trade network
    The Indian Ocean trade network was a vast, centuries-long maritime system connecting East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia through the exchange of goods, cultures, and ideas driven by monsoon winds.
  • B. South Seas Mandate
    The South Seas Mandate was a former League of Nations mandate administered by Japan after World War I, comprising several Pacific islands that later became strategically important in World War II.
  • C. British Resident system
    The British Resident system was a colonial governance arrangement in the Federated Malay States whereby British officials, styled Residents, exercised decisive administrative authority while local rulers retained nominal sovereignty.
  • D. Inter-American system
    The Inter-American system is the network of regional organizations and institutions, centered around the Organization of American States, that coordinate political, security, human rights, and development cooperation among countries in the Americas.
  • E. Yangtze River treaty port system
    The Yangtze River treaty port system was a network of semi-colonial ports along China’s Yangtze River opened to foreign powers by unequal treaties in the 19th and early 20th centuries, facilitating foreign trade, extraterritorial rights, and imperialist influence deep into the Chinese interior.
  • 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_69c008c95c5c819084bd3dd56133d84d completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c06387fec0819095b47a37b9402aa9 completed March 22, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c2445061a481909487fdb04c50493b completed March 24, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c2a7b1406c8190a703297cf3dbafca completed March 24, 2026, 3:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c2a809cb1c81909aca6b1b70310e67 completed March 24, 2026, 3:04 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:25 p.m.