Triple

T7781141
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Richard Madsen E221519 entity
Predicate notableStudent P4838 FINISHED
Object Fenggang Yang
Fenggang Yang is a prominent Chinese-American sociologist known for his influential research on religion and religious change in contemporary China.
E693734 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: Fenggang Yang | Statement: [Richard Madsen, notableStudent, Fenggang Yang]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fenggang Yang
Context triple: [Richard Madsen, notableStudent, Fenggang Yang]
  • A. Geling Yan
    Geling Yan is a Chinese-American novelist and screenwriter known for her emotionally powerful works that often explore the human impact of war, political upheaval, and social change in modern Chinese history.
  • B. Xiaodong Chen
    Xiaodong Chen is a prominent materials scientist and nanotechnology researcher who serves as editor-in-chief of the journal ACS Nano.
  • C. Chiwei Yu
    Chiwei Yu is a small, remote islet in the East China Sea that is part of the disputed Diaoyutai/Senkaku Islands archipelago.
  • D. Jian Sun
    Jian Sun is a Chinese computer vision researcher known for his influential work in deep learning and as a co-author of the seminal ResNet architecture.
  • E. Wai-Tung Gao
    Wai-Tung Gao is the Taiwanese-American gay protagonist of Ang Lee’s film "The Wedding Banquet," whose sham marriage to appease his traditional parents drives the movie’s central comedic and emotional conflicts.
  • 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: Fenggang Yang
Triple: [Richard Madsen, notableStudent, Fenggang Yang]
Generated description
Fenggang Yang is a prominent Chinese-American sociologist known for his influential research on religion and religious change in contemporary China.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fenggang Yang
Target entity description: Fenggang Yang is a prominent Chinese-American sociologist known for his influential research on religion and religious change in contemporary China.
  • A. Geling Yan
    Geling Yan is a Chinese-American novelist and screenwriter known for her emotionally powerful works that often explore the human impact of war, political upheaval, and social change in modern Chinese history.
  • B. Xiaodong Chen
    Xiaodong Chen is a prominent materials scientist and nanotechnology researcher who serves as editor-in-chief of the journal ACS Nano.
  • C. Chiwei Yu
    Chiwei Yu is a small, remote islet in the East China Sea that is part of the disputed Diaoyutai/Senkaku Islands archipelago.
  • D. Jian Sun
    Jian Sun is a Chinese computer vision researcher known for his influential work in deep learning and as a co-author of the seminal ResNet architecture.
  • E. Wai-Tung Gao
    Wai-Tung Gao is the Taiwanese-American gay protagonist of Ang Lee’s film "The Wedding Banquet," whose sham marriage to appease his traditional parents drives the movie’s central comedic and emotional conflicts.
  • 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_69ca83ebbef881909ac47f789145fef7 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69caa4d6cf9881909f5220437db13cc7 completed March 30, 2026, 4:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb137f224881908731d47547584a8e completed March 31, 2026, 12:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cb1636b0d48190a57c2d3a7b3b41ed completed March 31, 2026, 12:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cb1a29d2988190bb64aada0d2ef463 completed March 31, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:21 p.m.