Triple

T735484
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chan E14920 entity
Predicate romanizesChineseCharacter P2508 FINISHED
Object
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]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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]
  • A. hasRomanizationOf chosen
    Indicates that one entity is a romanized representation (written in the Latin alphabet) of the other entity’s original script form.
  • B. kanji
    Indicates that an entity is written in, represented by, or associated with a specific kanji character or set of kanji characters.
  • C. usesKatakanaFor
    Indicates that one entity is written or represented using katakana script in relation to another entity.
  • D. ChineseNameTraditional
    Indicates that an entity’s name is given in traditional Chinese characters.
  • 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.