Triple

T9675187
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Republican era of China E234128 entity
Predicate containsWarlordClique P25766 FINISHED
Object Yunnan clique
The Yunnan clique was a powerful regional warlord faction based in Yunnan Province that played a significant military and political role in southwestern China during the early Republican era.
E101964 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: Yunnan clique | Statement: [Republican era of China, containsWarlordClique, Yunnan clique]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yunnan clique
Context triple: [Republican era of China, containsWarlordClique, Yunnan clique]
  • A. Zhili clique
    The Zhili clique was a powerful warlord faction that controlled much of northern China during the early Republic era, competing with rival cliques for dominance before being defeated by the Nationalist government.
  • B. Guangxi Clique
    The Guangxi Clique was a powerful regional warlord faction in early 20th-century China that controlled Guangxi province and played a major role in the internal power struggles of the Republic of China.
  • C. Fengtian clique
    The Fengtian clique was a powerful warlord faction based in Manchuria that played a major role in Chinese politics during the Warlord Era in the early 20th century.
  • D. Anhui clique
    The Anhui clique was a powerful Chinese warlord faction led by Duan Qirui that dominated Beijing politics in the early Republic of China before being defeated in the Zhili–Anhui War of 1920.
  • E. Yunnan Army
    The Yunnan Army was a regional military force of China's Yunnan province that played a significant role in early 20th-century Chinese military and revolutionary history.
  • 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: Yunnan clique
Triple: [Republican era of China, containsWarlordClique, Yunnan clique]
Generated description
The Yunnan clique was a powerful regional warlord faction based in Yunnan Province that played a significant military and political role in southwestern China during the early Republican era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yunnan clique
Target entity description: The Yunnan clique was a powerful regional warlord faction based in Yunnan Province that played a significant military and political role in southwestern China during the early Republican era.
  • A. Zhili clique
    The Zhili clique was a powerful warlord faction that controlled much of northern China during the early Republic era, competing with rival cliques for dominance before being defeated by the Nationalist government.
  • B. Guangxi Clique
    The Guangxi Clique was a powerful regional warlord faction in early 20th-century China that controlled Guangxi province and played a major role in the internal power struggles of the Republic of China.
  • C. Fengtian clique
    The Fengtian clique was a powerful warlord faction based in Manchuria that played a major role in Chinese politics during the Warlord Era in the early 20th century.
  • D. Anhui clique
    The Anhui clique was a powerful Chinese warlord faction led by Duan Qirui that dominated Beijing politics in the early Republic of China before being defeated in the Zhili–Anhui War of 1920.
  • E. Yunnan Army chosen
    The Yunnan Army was a regional military force of China's Yunnan province that played a significant role in early 20th-century Chinese military and revolutionary history.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ca848f55e48190b3f67252571c3d45 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9c6d6dd48190a77c486337a58cb6 completed April 1, 2026, 10:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1bcb78e4c8190aaa55de453789168 completed April 5, 2026, 1:36 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1bd42e3888190b13970710a9620d7 completed April 5, 2026, 1:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1bdd5ec94819083edd1cb2c9598a0 completed April 5, 2026, 1:41 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:15 p.m.