Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lin Zexu E140349 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Letter to Queen Victoria (1839) regarding the opium trade
The "Letter to Queen Victoria" (1839) is a famous open letter by Chinese official Lin Zexu condemning the British opium trade and appealing to the British monarch to halt the trafficking of opium into China.
E579851 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: Letter to Queen Victoria (1839) regarding the opium trade | Statement: [Lin Zexu, notableWork, Letter to Queen Victoria (1839) regarding the opium trade]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Letter to Queen Victoria (1839) regarding the opium trade
Context triple: [Lin Zexu, notableWork, Letter to Queen Victoria (1839) regarding the opium trade]
  • A. British opium trade in China
    The British opium trade in China was a 19th-century system of illicit narcotics commerce, largely driven by British merchants and the East India Company, that flooded China with opium, destabilized its society and economy, and ultimately provoked the Opium Wars.
  • B. British concession in Canton
    The British concession in Canton was a foreign-controlled enclave in Guangzhou, China, established in the 19th century as part of the treaty port system that facilitated British trade and extraterritorial rights.
  • C. British Legation in Peking
    The British Legation in Peking was the United Kingdom’s principal diplomatic mission in imperial and early republican China, overseeing British political and consular affairs in the country.
  • D. Lytton Commission report
    The Lytton Commission report was a 1932 League of Nations investigation that condemned Japan’s actions in Manchuria and refused to recognize the puppet state of Manchukuo.
  • E. Macartney Embassy of 1793
    The Macartney Embassy of 1793 was the first British diplomatic mission to China, led by Lord George Macartney to the court of the Qianlong Emperor in an unsuccessful attempt to expand trade and establish formal relations.
  • 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: Letter to Queen Victoria (1839) regarding the opium trade
Triple: [Lin Zexu, notableWork, Letter to Queen Victoria (1839) regarding the opium trade]
Generated description
The "Letter to Queen Victoria" (1839) is a famous open letter by Chinese official Lin Zexu condemning the British opium trade and appealing to the British monarch to halt the trafficking of opium into China.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Letter to Queen Victoria (1839) regarding the opium trade
Target entity description: The "Letter to Queen Victoria" (1839) is a famous open letter by Chinese official Lin Zexu condemning the British opium trade and appealing to the British monarch to halt the trafficking of opium into China.
  • A. British opium trade in China
    The British opium trade in China was a 19th-century system of illicit narcotics commerce, largely driven by British merchants and the East India Company, that flooded China with opium, destabilized its society and economy, and ultimately provoked the Opium Wars.
  • B. British concession in Canton
    The British concession in Canton was a foreign-controlled enclave in Guangzhou, China, established in the 19th century as part of the treaty port system that facilitated British trade and extraterritorial rights.
  • C. British Legation in Peking
    The British Legation in Peking was the United Kingdom’s principal diplomatic mission in imperial and early republican China, overseeing British political and consular affairs in the country.
  • D. Lytton Commission report
    The Lytton Commission report was a 1932 League of Nations investigation that condemned Japan’s actions in Manchuria and refused to recognize the puppet state of Manchukuo.
  • E. Macartney Embassy of 1793
    The Macartney Embassy of 1793 was the first British diplomatic mission to China, led by Lord George Macartney to the court of the Qianlong Emperor in an unsuccessful attempt to expand trade and establish formal relations.
  • 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.