Triple
T735484
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Chan |
E14920
|
entity |
| Predicate | romanizesChineseCharacter |
P2508
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
陳
陳 is a common Chinese surname and character with historical roots, widely used across Chinese-speaking communities and often romanized as "Chan," "Chen," or similar variants.
|
E87685
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (5 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: 陳 | Statement: [Chan, romanizesChineseCharacter, 陳]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 陳 Context triple: [Chan, romanizesChineseCharacter, 陳]
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A.
Chen Cheng
Chen Cheng was a prominent Chinese military leader and politician who played key roles in the Nationalist government and later served as Premier and Vice President of the Republic of China in Taiwan.
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B.
Hsu Yung-chang
Hsu Yung-chang was a Chinese military representative who took part in formalizing Japan’s World War II surrender by signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender.
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C.
Chia-Shun Yih
Chia-Shun Yih was a prominent Chinese-American fluid dynamicist known for his influential theoretical work on hydrodynamic stability and stratified flows.
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D.
Tsai Chongxin
Tsai Chongxin, better known as Joe Tsai, is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire businessman and co-founder of Alibaba Group.
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E.
Ma Hiao-Tsiun
Ma Hiao-Tsiun was a Chinese-born musician and music educator best known as the father and early musical mentor of renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
- 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: 陳 Triple: [Chan, romanizesChineseCharacter, 陳]
Generated description
陳 is a common Chinese surname and character with historical roots, widely used across Chinese-speaking communities and often romanized as "Chan," "Chen," or similar variants.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 陳 Target entity description: 陳 is a common Chinese surname and character with historical roots, widely used across Chinese-speaking communities and often romanized as "Chan," "Chen," or similar variants.
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A.
Chen Cheng
Chen Cheng was a prominent Chinese military leader and politician who played key roles in the Nationalist government and later served as Premier and Vice President of the Republic of China in Taiwan.
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B.
Hsu Yung-chang
Hsu Yung-chang was a Chinese military representative who took part in formalizing Japan’s World War II surrender by signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender.
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C.
Chia-Shun Yih
Chia-Shun Yih was a prominent Chinese-American fluid dynamicist known for his influential theoretical work on hydrodynamic stability and stratified flows.
-
D.
Tsai Chongxin
Tsai Chongxin, better known as Joe Tsai, is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire businessman and co-founder of Alibaba Group.
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E.
Ma Hiao-Tsiun
Ma Hiao-Tsiun was a Chinese-born musician and music educator best known as the father and early musical mentor of renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
- F. None of above. chosen
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: romanizesChineseCharacter Context triple: [Chan, romanizesChineseCharacter, 陳]
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A.
hasRomanizationOf
chosen
Indicates that one entity is a romanized representation (written in the Latin alphabet) of the other entity’s original script form.
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B.
kanji
Indicates that an entity is written in, represented by, or associated with a specific kanji character or set of kanji characters.
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C.
usesKatakanaFor
Indicates that one entity is written or represented using katakana script in relation to another entity.
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D.
ChineseNameTraditional
Indicates that an entity’s name is given in traditional Chinese characters.
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E.
hasRomanizationContrast
Indicates that there is a meaningful difference between two or more romanized representations of the same original form.
- F. None of above.
Provenance (6 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_69a4934d9930819099eed80096b0597d |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4a66820548190b373deb117187c2c |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:49 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a64a5f0de4819083457c86e5e93ba0 |
completed | March 3, 2026, 2:41 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a64b03246081908c20445a7a401008 |
completed | March 3, 2026, 2:44 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a64b4e9cec8190a3dcc378f853be0d |
completed | March 3, 2026, 2:45 a.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69a4a4fafee081909bf356854c09aaff |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:43 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.