Triple

T884496
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Nanjing E19099 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Tang Shengzhi
Tang Shengzhi was a Chinese Nationalist general best known for his controversial leadership during the Second Sino-Japanese War, particularly in the defense and fall of Nanjing in 1937.
E138469 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: Tang Shengzhi | Statement: [Battle of Nanjing, commander, Tang Shengzhi]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tang Shengzhi
Context triple: [Battle of Nanjing, commander, Tang Shengzhi]
  • A. Teng Daiyuan
    Teng Daiyuan was a prominent Chinese Communist revolutionary and military leader who played a key role in the early development of the People's Liberation Army and the People's Republic of China.
  • B. Ding Ruchang
    Ding Ruchang was a late Qing dynasty Chinese naval officer best known for leading the Beiyang Fleet during the First Sino-Japanese War.
  • C. Mao Yuanxin
    Mao Yuanxin is a Chinese political figure known as Mao Zedong’s nephew who briefly held influential positions during the final years of the Cultural Revolution.
  • D. Tang Enbo
    Tang Enbo was a prominent Nationalist Chinese general known for his leadership in major battles against Japanese forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • E. Chen Cheng
    Chen Cheng was a prominent Chinese military leader and politician who played key roles in the Nationalist government and later served as Premier and Vice President of the Republic of China in Taiwan.
  • 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: Tang Shengzhi
Triple: [Battle of Nanjing, commander, Tang Shengzhi]
Generated description
Tang Shengzhi was a Chinese Nationalist general best known for his controversial leadership during the Second Sino-Japanese War, particularly in the defense and fall of Nanjing in 1937.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tang Shengzhi
Target entity description: Tang Shengzhi was a Chinese Nationalist general best known for his controversial leadership during the Second Sino-Japanese War, particularly in the defense and fall of Nanjing in 1937.
  • A. Teng Daiyuan
    Teng Daiyuan was a prominent Chinese Communist revolutionary and military leader who played a key role in the early development of the People's Liberation Army and the People's Republic of China.
  • B. Ding Ruchang
    Ding Ruchang was a late Qing dynasty Chinese naval officer best known for leading the Beiyang Fleet during the First Sino-Japanese War.
  • C. Mao Yuanxin
    Mao Yuanxin is a Chinese political figure known as Mao Zedong’s nephew who briefly held influential positions during the final years of the Cultural Revolution.
  • D. Tang Enbo
    Tang Enbo was a prominent Nationalist Chinese general known for his leadership in major battles against Japanese forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • E. Chen Cheng
    Chen Cheng was a prominent Chinese military leader and politician who played key roles in the Nationalist government and later served as Premier and Vice President of the Republic of China in Taiwan.
  • 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_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_69ac7f23e10081909ebf4e87dc081254 completed March 7, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac7f9a55dc819098204d53aac70ef3 completed March 7, 2026, 7:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac80c3c6b08190a99119f5661c0157 completed March 7, 2026, 7:47 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.