Triple

T8594021
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Beiyang Army E203498 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Zhang Xun
Zhang Xun was a Qing-loyalist Chinese general best known for leading a failed attempt to restore the abdicated emperor Puyi to the throne in 1917.
E754257 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: Zhang Xun | Statement: [Beiyang Army, commander, Zhang Xun]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zhang Xun
Context triple: [Beiyang Army, commander, Zhang Xun]
  • A. Li Yuanhong
    Li Yuanhong was a Chinese military leader and politician who became a key figure in the 1911 Revolution and later served as president of the Republic of China.
  • B. Feng Guozhang
    Feng Guozhang was a prominent early Republican Chinese military and political leader, associated with the Beiyang clique and known for briefly serving as President of the Republic of China.
  • C. Yuan Shikai
    Yuan Shikai was a powerful late Qing and early Republican Chinese military and political leader who became the first president of the Republic of China and briefly declared himself emperor.
  • D. Cao Kun
    Cao Kun was a prominent Chinese warlord and politician of the early Republic era who became president of the Beiyang government after consolidating power within the Beiyang Army.
  • E. Ma Bufang
    Ma Bufang was a prominent Chinese Muslim warlord and Kuomintang general who controlled Qinghai province during the Republican era and played a key role in northwest China’s military and political affairs.
  • 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: Zhang Xun
Triple: [Beiyang Army, commander, Zhang Xun]
Generated description
Zhang Xun was a Qing-loyalist Chinese general best known for leading a failed attempt to restore the abdicated emperor Puyi to the throne in 1917.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zhang Xun
Target entity description: Zhang Xun was a Qing-loyalist Chinese general best known for leading a failed attempt to restore the abdicated emperor Puyi to the throne in 1917.
  • A. Li Yuanhong
    Li Yuanhong was a Chinese military leader and politician who became a key figure in the 1911 Revolution and later served as president of the Republic of China.
  • B. Feng Guozhang
    Feng Guozhang was a prominent early Republican Chinese military and political leader, associated with the Beiyang clique and known for briefly serving as President of the Republic of China.
  • C. Yuan Shikai
    Yuan Shikai was a powerful late Qing and early Republican Chinese military and political leader who became the first president of the Republic of China and briefly declared himself emperor.
  • D. Cao Kun
    Cao Kun was a prominent Chinese warlord and politician of the early Republic era who became president of the Beiyang government after consolidating power within the Beiyang Army.
  • E. Ma Bufang
    Ma Bufang was a prominent Chinese Muslim warlord and Kuomintang general who controlled Qinghai province during the Republican era and played a key role in northwest China’s military and political affairs.
  • 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_69ca832a7f108190b4e4f5648abf4aa2 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc46c5e8888190b721e791c449b0df completed March 31, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf425243d8819084af0a789c73ea7c completed April 3, 2026, 4:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf43bd0f8c8190be2f7dc86f1e76e1 completed April 3, 2026, 4:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf444c9cb08190a37f34faa4a3458d completed April 3, 2026, 4:38 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:23 p.m.