Triple

T8148102
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sima Yi E190263 entity
Predicate notableBattle P259 FINISHED
Object Battle of Fancheng (support role in Cao Cao’s campaigns)
The Battle of Fancheng was a pivotal conflict during the late Eastern Han period in which Cao Cao’s forces defended the strategic city of Fancheng against Guan Yu’s offensive, with Sima Yi serving in a supporting role that foreshadowed his later prominence as a Wei strategist.
E717369 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: Battle of Fancheng (support role in Cao Cao’s campaigns) | Statement: [Sima Yi, notableBattle, Battle of Fancheng (support role in Cao Cao’s campaigns)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Fancheng (support role in Cao Cao’s campaigns)
Context triple: [Sima Yi, notableBattle, Battle of Fancheng (support role in Cao Cao’s campaigns)]
  • A. Battle of Guandu
    The Battle of Guandu was a decisive military confrontation in 200 CE between the northern warlords Cao Cao and Yuan Shao that paved the way for Cao Cao’s dominance in the late Eastern Han dynasty.
  • B. Battle of Red Cliffs
    The Battle of Red Cliffs was a decisive naval engagement in 208–209 CE during the late Eastern Han dynasty that halted Cao Cao’s expansion and paved the way for the Three Kingdoms period in China.
  • C. Southern Campaign against the Nanman
    The Southern Campaign against the Nanman was a series of military expeditions led by Shu strategist Zhuge Liang to pacify and secure the southern frontiers during the Three Kingdoms period of China.
  • D. Battle of Xiaoting
    The Battle of Xiaoting was a pivotal early 3rd-century clash during the Three Kingdoms period in China, where Liu Bei’s Shu forces were decisively defeated by Eastern Wu, reshaping the balance of power among the rival states.
  • E. Battle of Cao Bằng
    The Battle of Cao Bằng was a key 1979 clash between Chinese and Vietnamese forces in northern Vietnam that played a significant role in the course of the Sino-Vietnamese War.
  • 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: Battle of Fancheng (support role in Cao Cao’s campaigns)
Triple: [Sima Yi, notableBattle, Battle of Fancheng (support role in Cao Cao’s campaigns)]
Generated description
The Battle of Fancheng was a pivotal conflict during the late Eastern Han period in which Cao Cao’s forces defended the strategic city of Fancheng against Guan Yu’s offensive, with Sima Yi serving in a supporting role that foreshadowed his later prominence as a Wei strategist.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Fancheng (support role in Cao Cao’s campaigns)
Target entity description: The Battle of Fancheng was a pivotal conflict during the late Eastern Han period in which Cao Cao’s forces defended the strategic city of Fancheng against Guan Yu’s offensive, with Sima Yi serving in a supporting role that foreshadowed his later prominence as a Wei strategist.
  • A. Battle of Guandu
    The Battle of Guandu was a decisive military confrontation in 200 CE between the northern warlords Cao Cao and Yuan Shao that paved the way for Cao Cao’s dominance in the late Eastern Han dynasty.
  • B. Battle of Red Cliffs
    The Battle of Red Cliffs was a decisive naval engagement in 208–209 CE during the late Eastern Han dynasty that halted Cao Cao’s expansion and paved the way for the Three Kingdoms period in China.
  • C. Southern Campaign against the Nanman
    The Southern Campaign against the Nanman was a series of military expeditions led by Shu strategist Zhuge Liang to pacify and secure the southern frontiers during the Three Kingdoms period of China.
  • D. Battle of Xiaoting
    The Battle of Xiaoting was a pivotal early 3rd-century clash during the Three Kingdoms period in China, where Liu Bei’s Shu forces were decisively defeated by Eastern Wu, reshaping the balance of power among the rival states.
  • E. Battle of Cao Bằng
    The Battle of Cao Bằng was a key 1979 clash between Chinese and Vietnamese forces in northern Vietnam that played a significant role in the course of the Sino-Vietnamese War.
  • 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_69ca82be7ba8819087de0147e9292c83 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb447e74e081908df774edb2134209 completed March 31, 2026, 3:50 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ccbee697208190a1d9c98b2a4414bd completed April 1, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ccc30f1fc48190991e0caa9ea6e735 completed April 1, 2026, 7:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ccd8041c00819094094701ace21aa0 completed April 1, 2026, 8:32 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:36 p.m.