Triple

T8594044
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Beiyang Army E203498 entity
Predicate garrisonLocation P40 FINISHED
Object Zhili province
Zhili province was a historically important administrative region in northern China, centered on present-day Hebei and Beijing, that played a key political and military role during the late Qing and early Republican eras.
E751913 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: Zhili province | Statement: [Beiyang Army, garrisonLocation, Zhili province]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zhili province
Context triple: [Beiyang Army, garrisonLocation, Zhili province]
  • A. Fengtian Province
    Fengtian Province was a historical administrative region in northeastern China, centered on modern Liaoning, that played a key role in early 20th-century warlord and Manchurian politics.
  • B. Kansu
    Kansu is a Turkish surname most notably associated with Şevket Aziz Kansu, a prominent Turkish academic and anthropologist.
  • C. Yang Province
    Yang Province was an ancient administrative region in southeastern China that encompassed parts of modern Jiangsu, Anhui, and surrounding areas during the Han and Three Kingdoms periods.
  • D. Hubei Province
    Hubei Province is a landlocked region in central China known for its capital city Wuhan, major role in industry and transportation, and significant historical and cultural heritage.
  • E. Shaanxi Province
    Shaanxi Province is a landlocked region in north-central China known for its historical capital Xi'an and the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang.
  • 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: Zhili province
Triple: [Beiyang Army, garrisonLocation, Zhili province]
Generated description
Zhili province was a historically important administrative region in northern China, centered on present-day Hebei and Beijing, that played a key political and military role during the late Qing and early Republican eras.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zhili province
Target entity description: Zhili province was a historically important administrative region in northern China, centered on present-day Hebei and Beijing, that played a key political and military role during the late Qing and early Republican eras.
  • A. Fengtian Province
    Fengtian Province was a historical administrative region in northeastern China, centered on modern Liaoning, that played a key role in early 20th-century warlord and Manchurian politics.
  • B. Kansu
    Kansu is a Turkish surname most notably associated with Şevket Aziz Kansu, a prominent Turkish academic and anthropologist.
  • C. Yang Province
    Yang Province was an ancient administrative region in southeastern China that encompassed parts of modern Jiangsu, Anhui, and surrounding areas during the Han and Three Kingdoms periods.
  • D. Hubei Province
    Hubei Province is a landlocked region in central China known for its capital city Wuhan, major role in industry and transportation, and significant historical and cultural heritage.
  • E. Shaanxi Province
    Shaanxi Province is a landlocked region in north-central China known for its historical capital Xi'an and the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang.
  • 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_69cef3332a008190bbeba37bcfc355cb completed April 2, 2026, 10:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cef52000048190bc5451cfb6446ced completed April 2, 2026, 11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cef809df548190b4f9ecc709b3b065 completed April 2, 2026, 11:13 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:23 p.m.