Triple

T7824645
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Former Han E181215 entity
Predicate notableOfficial P1918 FINISHED
Object Sima Qian
Sima Qian was an eminent Chinese historian of the Former Han dynasty, best known for authoring the foundational historical text "Records of the Grand Historian" (Shiji).
E695242 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: Sima Qian | Statement: [Former Han, notableOfficial, Sima Qian]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sima Qian
Context triple: [Former Han, notableOfficial, Sima Qian]
  • A. Dong Zhongshu
    Dong Zhongshu was a prominent Han dynasty scholar and political philosopher who systematized Confucianism into an official state ideology, deeply shaping Chinese thought and governance.
  • B. Li Si
    Li Si was a powerful Chinese statesman and legalist philosopher who served as chancellor under Qin Shi Huang and played a key role in the unification and centralization of China.
  • C. Cai Chang
    Cai Chang was a prominent Chinese communist revolutionary and early feminist leader who played a key role in the women’s movement in 20th-century China.
  • D. He Zizhen
    He Zizhen was a Chinese revolutionary and early Communist Party member best known as one of Mao Zedong’s wives and a participant in the Long March.
  • E. Kun Huang
    Kun Huang was a prominent Chinese physicist and crystallographer known for his influential work in solid-state physics and lattice dynamics.
  • 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: Sima Qian
Triple: [Former Han, notableOfficial, Sima Qian]
Generated description
Sima Qian was an eminent Chinese historian of the Former Han dynasty, best known for authoring the foundational historical text "Records of the Grand Historian" (Shiji).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sima Qian
Target entity description: Sima Qian was an eminent Chinese historian of the Former Han dynasty, best known for authoring the foundational historical text "Records of the Grand Historian" (Shiji).
  • A. Dong Zhongshu
    Dong Zhongshu was a prominent Han dynasty scholar and political philosopher who systematized Confucianism into an official state ideology, deeply shaping Chinese thought and governance.
  • B. Li Si
    Li Si was a powerful Chinese statesman and legalist philosopher who served as chancellor under Qin Shi Huang and played a key role in the unification and centralization of China.
  • C. Cai Chang
    Cai Chang was a prominent Chinese communist revolutionary and early feminist leader who played a key role in the women’s movement in 20th-century China.
  • D. He Zizhen
    He Zizhen was a Chinese revolutionary and early Communist Party member best known as one of Mao Zedong’s wives and a participant in the Long March.
  • E. Kun Huang
    Kun Huang was a prominent Chinese physicist and crystallographer known for his influential work in solid-state physics and lattice dynamics.
  • 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_69ca8282ccec819083c48efb72d21cf9 completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cafa0c1f5c8190b16db20daad159a1 completed March 30, 2026, 10:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb14aefd4881908ffa5825f4ba6eff completed March 31, 2026, 12:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cb1734159881909590ed51e8920387 completed March 31, 2026, 12:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cb1a6fc16c8190827593f58b9d742d completed March 31, 2026, 12:50 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:42 p.m.