Triple

T717782
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Japanese Kwantung Army E14346 entity
Predicate oversaw P760 FINISHED
Object Unit 731
Unit 731 was a covert Imperial Japanese military research facility in World War II notorious for conducting lethal human experimentation and developing biological weapons.
E85368 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: Unit 731 | Statement: [Japanese Kwantung Army, oversaw, Unit 731]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Unit 731
Context triple: [Japanese Kwantung Army, oversaw, Unit 731]
  • A. Kido Butai
    Kido Butai was the Imperial Japanese Navy’s elite carrier strike force during World War II, responsible for major early-war operations including the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • B. Japanese Kwantung Army
    The Japanese Kwantung Army was a powerful and aggressive Imperial Japanese Army group stationed in Manchuria that played a central role in Japan’s expansionist campaigns in East Asia before and during World War II.
  • C. Japanese North China Area Army
    The Japanese North China Area Army was a major field army of the Imperial Japanese Army responsible for conducting large-scale operations and occupation duties in northern China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • D. Imperial Japanese Army
    The Imperial Japanese Army was the ground-based military force of the Empire of Japan, playing a central role in Japan’s expansion and major conflicts across East Asia and the Pacific during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including World War II.
  • E. Imperial General Headquarters
    The Imperial General Headquarters was the highest command authority of Japan’s armed forces during the Empire of Japan, directing military strategy and operations, especially throughout World War II.
  • 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: Unit 731
Triple: [Japanese Kwantung Army, oversaw, Unit 731]
Generated description
Unit 731 was a covert Imperial Japanese military research facility in World War II notorious for conducting lethal human experimentation and developing biological weapons.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Unit 731
Target entity description: Unit 731 was a covert Imperial Japanese military research facility in World War II notorious for conducting lethal human experimentation and developing biological weapons.
  • A. Kido Butai
    Kido Butai was the Imperial Japanese Navy’s elite carrier strike force during World War II, responsible for major early-war operations including the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • B. Japanese Kwantung Army
    The Japanese Kwantung Army was a powerful and aggressive Imperial Japanese Army group stationed in Manchuria that played a central role in Japan’s expansionist campaigns in East Asia before and during World War II.
  • C. Japanese North China Area Army
    The Japanese North China Area Army was a major field army of the Imperial Japanese Army responsible for conducting large-scale operations and occupation duties in northern China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • D. Imperial Japanese Army
    The Imperial Japanese Army was the ground-based military force of the Empire of Japan, playing a central role in Japan’s expansion and major conflicts across East Asia and the Pacific during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including World War II.
  • E. Imperial General Headquarters
    The Imperial General Headquarters was the highest command authority of Japan’s armed forces during the Empire of Japan, directing military strategy and operations, especially throughout World War II.
  • 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_69a4934a36e081909e7abef98b898a4e completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a577658881909c12951d63d96377 completed March 1, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5dcb77bc481909d79542001fafbd2 completed March 2, 2026, 6:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a5de57bbec81908a5d1202299194f4 completed March 2, 2026, 7 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a60952c6388190a23a178d695eec6e completed March 2, 2026, 10:04 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.