Triple

T74687
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject French Indochina E1494 entity
Predicate containsTerritory P285 FINISHED
Object Tonkin
Tonkin was a historical region in northern Vietnam, centered around Hanoi, that became a French protectorate and key part of colonial French Indochina.
E15745 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: Tonkin | Statement: [French Indochina, containsTerritory, Tonkin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tonkin
Context triple: [French Indochina, containsTerritory, Tonkin]
  • A. French Indochina
    French Indochina was a French colonial federation in Southeast Asia, comprising territories such as Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, that existed from the late 19th century until the mid-20th century.
  • B. Viet Nam
    Viet Nam is a Southeast Asian nation known for its rapid economic growth, rich cultural heritage, and strategic role in regional and global trade.
  • C. Laos
    Laos is a landlocked Southeast Asian country known for its mountainous terrain, Buddhist culture, and status as one of the region’s least developed but rapidly reforming economies.
  • D. Xuan Thuy
    Xuan Thuy was a North Vietnamese diplomat and politician best known as Hanoi’s chief negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks during the Vietnam War.
  • E. Saigon
    Saigon, now officially known as Ho Chi Minh City, is Vietnam’s largest city and a historic economic and cultural hub in the south of the country.
  • 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: Tonkin
Triple: [French Indochina, containsTerritory, Tonkin]
Generated description
Tonkin was a historical region in northern Vietnam, centered around Hanoi, that became a French protectorate and key part of colonial French Indochina.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tonkin
Target entity description: Tonkin was a historical region in northern Vietnam, centered around Hanoi, that became a French protectorate and key part of colonial French Indochina.
  • A. French Indochina
    French Indochina was a French colonial federation in Southeast Asia, comprising territories such as Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, that existed from the late 19th century until the mid-20th century.
  • B. Viet Nam
    Viet Nam is a Southeast Asian nation known for its rapid economic growth, rich cultural heritage, and strategic role in regional and global trade.
  • C. Laos
    Laos is a landlocked Southeast Asian country known for its mountainous terrain, Buddhist culture, and status as one of the region’s least developed but rapidly reforming economies.
  • D. Xuan Thuy
    Xuan Thuy was a North Vietnamese diplomat and politician best known as Hanoi’s chief negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks during the Vietnam War.
  • E. Saigon
    Saigon, now officially known as Ho Chi Minh City, is Vietnam’s largest city and a historic economic and cultural hub in the south of the country.
  • 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_69a24c60d19c8190a1b6c105ca59ef5b completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2567b592c8190aaf692a18fcd2f1b completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2b014ab2c8190bcef8382280932dc completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2b0bd233c81908f3595abdfa51666 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2b122a168819088be9e5455a1aac1 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:10 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:06 a.m.