Triple

T20995720
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Clavell E517142 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Tai-Pan
Tai-Pan is a historical novel by James Clavell that dramatizes the founding of Hong Kong through the power struggles of rival trading houses in the 19th-century Far East.
E1460208 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: Tai-Pan | Statement: [James Clavell, notableWork, Tai-Pan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tai-Pan
Context triple: [James Clavell, notableWork, Tai-Pan]
  • A. Tawailia
    Tawailia is an alternate name for the Uma language, an Austronesian language spoken in parts of Indonesia.
  • B. Tai-Ngon
    Tai-Ngon is the former name of Chợ Lớn, the historic Chinese-influenced district that later became part of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.
  • C. Paiwan
    The Paiwan are one of Taiwan’s major Indigenous groups, known for their hierarchical social structure, rich oral traditions, and distinctive artistic practices such as woodcarving and beadwork.
  • D. Wei-kuo
    Wei-kuo is the given name of Chiang Wei-kuo, a Chinese military officer and adopted son of Chiang Kai-shek who served in both German and later Republic of China forces.
  • E. Taif
    Taif is a city in western Saudi Arabia known for its cool climate, rose cultivation, and historical significance as a summer resort and cultural center.
  • 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: Tai-Pan
Triple: [James Clavell, notableWork, Tai-Pan]
Generated description
Tai-Pan is a historical novel by James Clavell that dramatizes the founding of Hong Kong through the power struggles of rival trading houses in the 19th-century Far East.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tai-Pan
Target entity description: Tai-Pan is a historical novel by James Clavell that dramatizes the founding of Hong Kong through the power struggles of rival trading houses in the 19th-century Far East.
  • A. Tawailia
    Tawailia is an alternate name for the Uma language, an Austronesian language spoken in parts of Indonesia.
  • B. Tai-Ngon
    Tai-Ngon is the former name of Chợ Lớn, the historic Chinese-influenced district that later became part of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.
  • C. Paiwan
    The Paiwan are one of Taiwan’s major Indigenous groups, known for their hierarchical social structure, rich oral traditions, and distinctive artistic practices such as woodcarving and beadwork.
  • D. Wei-kuo
    Wei-kuo is the given name of Chiang Wei-kuo, a Chinese military officer and adopted son of Chiang Kai-shek who served in both German and later Republic of China forces.
  • E. Taif
    Taif is a city in western Saudi Arabia known for its cool climate, rose cultivation, and historical significance as a summer resort and cultural center.
  • 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_69e0b5006e2881909fc2383f841740cc completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6fc1fd5d48190a56981cee95ebd69 completed April 21, 2026, 4:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a092fcdc8648190b92b03d417918883 completed May 17, 2026, 3:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0930a66c7481908fba6303852f23b9 completed May 17, 2026, 3:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09310ed6b48190b556b1599cf8664c completed May 17, 2026, 3:07 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 1:50 p.m.