Triple

T8202550
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Yin E191612 entity
Predicate religion P45 FINISHED
Object Shang ancestral worship
Shang ancestral worship was the central religious practice of the Shang dynasty, involving elaborate rituals, divination, and offerings to royal ancestors believed to influence earthly affairs.
E718712 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: Shang ancestral worship | Statement: [Yin, religion, Shang ancestral worship]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shang ancestral worship
Context triple: [Yin, religion, Shang ancestral worship]
  • A. Chu culture
    Chu culture was an influential ancient Chinese civilization of the Zhou dynasty era, known for its distinctive art, shamanistic rituals, and rich contributions to poetry and bronze craftsmanship in the Yangtze River region.
  • B. Shang school
    Shang school is a renowned performance style and lineage within Peking opera, distinguished by its characteristic vocal techniques and artistic interpretations.
  • C. Chaoshan culture
    Chaoshan culture is the distinctive regional heritage of eastern Guangdong, China, characterized by the Teochew language, cuisine, opera, and traditions shaped by maritime trade and diaspora communities.
  • D. Mandate of Heaven
    The Mandate of Heaven is an ancient Chinese political and religious doctrine that justified a ruler’s authority as divinely granted but revocable if they governed unjustly or incompetently.
  • E. Tujia culture
    Tujia culture is the traditional way of life of the Tujia ethnic group in China, characterized by distinctive folk songs and dances, wooden stilted houses, elaborate brocade weaving, and rich ancestral and shamanistic rituals.
  • 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: Shang ancestral worship
Triple: [Yin, religion, Shang ancestral worship]
Generated description
Shang ancestral worship was the central religious practice of the Shang dynasty, involving elaborate rituals, divination, and offerings to royal ancestors believed to influence earthly affairs.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shang ancestral worship
Target entity description: Shang ancestral worship was the central religious practice of the Shang dynasty, involving elaborate rituals, divination, and offerings to royal ancestors believed to influence earthly affairs.
  • A. Chu culture
    Chu culture was an influential ancient Chinese civilization of the Zhou dynasty era, known for its distinctive art, shamanistic rituals, and rich contributions to poetry and bronze craftsmanship in the Yangtze River region.
  • B. Shang school
    Shang school is a renowned performance style and lineage within Peking opera, distinguished by its characteristic vocal techniques and artistic interpretations.
  • C. Chaoshan culture
    Chaoshan culture is the distinctive regional heritage of eastern Guangdong, China, characterized by the Teochew language, cuisine, opera, and traditions shaped by maritime trade and diaspora communities.
  • D. Mandate of Heaven
    The Mandate of Heaven is an ancient Chinese political and religious doctrine that justified a ruler’s authority as divinely granted but revocable if they governed unjustly or incompetently.
  • E. Tujia culture
    Tujia culture is the traditional way of life of the Tujia ethnic group in China, characterized by distinctive folk songs and dances, wooden stilted houses, elaborate brocade weaving, and rich ancestral and shamanistic rituals.
  • 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_69ca82c7f3e08190857bf1fc63b2a10c completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb5df84b108190b4407a72a3500af9 completed March 31, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ccedc49ba4819099762f200c4e6577 completed April 1, 2026, 10:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ccf1b818588190936f96d53bf08c2b completed April 1, 2026, 10:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd05ac594c819087d23a7318fd7704 completed April 1, 2026, 11:46 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:43 p.m.