Triple
T884494
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Battle of Nanjing |
E19099
|
entity |
| Predicate | commander |
P1061
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FINISHED |
| Object | Matsui Iwane |
E55219
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Matsui Iwane | Statement: [Battle of Nanjing, commander, Matsui Iwane]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Matsui Iwane Context triple: [Battle of Nanjing, commander, Matsui Iwane]
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A.
Matsui Iwane
chosen
Matsui Iwane was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army best known for commanding Japanese forces during the invasion of China and being held responsible for the Nanjing Massacre, for which he was later convicted and executed as a war criminal.
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B.
Ishiwara Kanji
Ishiwara Kanji was a prominent Imperial Japanese Army officer and military strategist best known as a key planner of Japan’s expansion into Manchuria in the early 1930s.
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C.
Terauchi Masatake
Terauchi Masatake was a Japanese military officer and statesman who served as the first Governor-General of Korea and later as Prime Minister of Japan during the early 20th century.
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D.
Ōkubo Toshimichi
Ōkubo Toshimichi was a leading Meiji-era Japanese statesman and key architect of the modernization and centralization of Japan after the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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E.
Yamashita Tomoyuki
Yamashita Tomoyuki was a prominent World War II Japanese general best known for leading the successful 1942 conquest of Singapore, earning him the nickname "The Tiger of Malaya."
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a4939c32488190a7ccd41cf0abb22b |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4ace495348190aec66f35ea90bc89 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 9:17 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ad5187234c8190aeaaf8f4b3b055cb |
completed | March 8, 2026, 10:37 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.