Triple

T803140
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ningbo-Zhoushan Port E17171 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object Maritime Silk Road
The Maritime Silk Road is an ancient and modern network of sea routes linking East Asia with Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, facilitating extensive trade and cultural exchange across the oceans.
E14028 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: Maritime Silk Road | Statement: [Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, partOf, Maritime Silk Road]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maritime Silk Road
Context triple: [Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, partOf, Maritime Silk Road]
  • A. Indian Ocean trade network
    The Indian Ocean trade network was a vast, centuries-long maritime system connecting East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia through the exchange of goods, cultures, and ideas driven by monsoon winds.
  • B. Silk Road routes
    Silk Road routes were ancient trade networks connecting East Asia with the Mediterranean and other regions, facilitating the exchange of goods, cultures, and ideas across Eurasia.
  • C. Mediterranean trade routes
    Mediterranean trade routes were a network of maritime and coastal pathways that connected Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, facilitating extensive commercial, cultural, and disease transmission across the Mediterranean Sea.
  • D. Asia–Caribbean shipping routes
    Asia–Caribbean shipping routes are major maritime trade corridors linking ports across East and Southeast Asia with destinations in the Caribbean basin for the transport of containerized and bulk cargo.
  • E. Tea Horse Road
    The Tea Horse Road was an ancient network of trade routes in Southwest China used primarily to transport tea to Tibet and beyond in exchange for horses, linking Chinese, Tibetan, and Southeast Asian cultures.
  • 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: Maritime Silk Road
Triple: [Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, partOf, Maritime Silk Road]
Generated description
The Maritime Silk Road is an ancient and modern network of sea routes linking East Asia with Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, facilitating extensive trade and cultural exchange across the oceans.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maritime Silk Road
Target entity description: The Maritime Silk Road is an ancient and modern network of sea routes linking East Asia with Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, facilitating extensive trade and cultural exchange across the oceans.
  • A. Indian Ocean trade network
    The Indian Ocean trade network was a vast, centuries-long maritime system connecting East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia through the exchange of goods, cultures, and ideas driven by monsoon winds.
  • B. Silk Road routes chosen
    Silk Road routes were ancient trade networks connecting East Asia with the Mediterranean and other regions, facilitating the exchange of goods, cultures, and ideas across Eurasia.
  • C. Mediterranean trade routes
    Mediterranean trade routes were a network of maritime and coastal pathways that connected Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, facilitating extensive commercial, cultural, and disease transmission across the Mediterranean Sea.
  • D. Asia–Caribbean shipping routes
    Asia–Caribbean shipping routes are major maritime trade corridors linking ports across East and Southeast Asia with destinations in the Caribbean basin for the transport of containerized and bulk cargo.
  • E. Tea Horse Road
    The Tea Horse Road was an ancient network of trade routes in Southwest China used primarily to transport tea to Tibet and beyond in exchange for horses, linking Chinese, Tibetan, and Southeast Asian cultures.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a49378b9c48190adbf5f62e5b7aca1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4aabd9fc081908ccadd8e8769de2d completed March 1, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a68926c04081908923a7d114d1842d completed March 3, 2026, 7:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a693cf5f348190868cdf3539274aeb completed March 3, 2026, 7:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a6d5bc74008190b94ef7ea63f39671 completed March 3, 2026, 12:36 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.