Triple

T18013415
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tokugawa clan E430939 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object Tokugawa Yoshimune
Tokugawa Yoshimune was the eighth shogun of Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate, known for his Kyoho Reforms that sought to strengthen the bakufu’s finances and governance in the early 18th century.
E1306312 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: Tokugawa Yoshimune | Statement: [Tokugawa clan, notableMember, Tokugawa Yoshimune]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tokugawa Yoshimune
Context triple: [Tokugawa clan, notableMember, Tokugawa Yoshimune]
  • A. Tokugawa Iesada
    Tokugawa Iesada was the 13th shogun of Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate, ruling during the late Edo period as Western pressure to open the country was rapidly intensifying.
  • B. Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
    Tokugawa Tsunayoshi was the fifth shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty in Japan, known for his cultural patronage and controversial animal protection edicts during the Edo period.
  • C. Tokugawa Ietsuna
    Tokugawa Ietsuna was the fourth shogun of Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate, ruling during a relatively peaceful period in the early Edo era and maintaining the political systems established by his predecessors.
  • D. Tokugawa Yorinobu
    Tokugawa Yorinobu was a powerful early Edo-period daimyō of the Tokugawa clan, best known as the first lord of the Kii Domain and a key figure in consolidating Tokugawa rule in western Japan.
  • E. Tokugawa Tadanaga
    Tokugawa Tadanaga was a Tokugawa shogunate-era Japanese daimyō and younger brother of shōgun Tokugawa Iemitsu, known for his tragic downfall in early Edo-period succession struggles.
  • 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: Tokugawa Yoshimune
Triple: [Tokugawa clan, notableMember, Tokugawa Yoshimune]
Generated description
Tokugawa Yoshimune was the eighth shogun of Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate, known for his Kyoho Reforms that sought to strengthen the bakufu’s finances and governance in the early 18th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tokugawa Yoshimune
Target entity description: Tokugawa Yoshimune was the eighth shogun of Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate, known for his Kyoho Reforms that sought to strengthen the bakufu’s finances and governance in the early 18th century.
  • A. Tokugawa Iesada
    Tokugawa Iesada was the 13th shogun of Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate, ruling during the late Edo period as Western pressure to open the country was rapidly intensifying.
  • B. Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
    Tokugawa Tsunayoshi was the fifth shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty in Japan, known for his cultural patronage and controversial animal protection edicts during the Edo period.
  • C. Tokugawa Ietsuna
    Tokugawa Ietsuna was the fourth shogun of Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate, ruling during a relatively peaceful period in the early Edo era and maintaining the political systems established by his predecessors.
  • D. Tokugawa Yorinobu
    Tokugawa Yorinobu was a powerful early Edo-period daimyō of the Tokugawa clan, best known as the first lord of the Kii Domain and a key figure in consolidating Tokugawa rule in western Japan.
  • E. Tokugawa Tadanaga
    Tokugawa Tadanaga was a Tokugawa shogunate-era Japanese daimyō and younger brother of shōgun Tokugawa Iemitsu, known for his tragic downfall in early Edo-period succession struggles.
  • 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_69d8b904530081908bf341d842464856 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4b521befc81908dff44f19aa3d580 completed April 19, 2026, 10:57 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a037c28786c819084dfeface9fb7f18 completed May 12, 2026, 7:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a037d6937688190b74b7b7e7ce92edc completed May 12, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a037def194081908f22a1db593617fc completed May 12, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:24 a.m.