Triple

T21138578
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Richard Salomon E520873 entity
Predicate affiliation P10 FINISHED
Object Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project
The Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project is a scholarly initiative dedicated to studying, editing, and publishing some of the oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts, particularly those written in Gandhari and related early Indic languages.
E122575 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: Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project | Statement: [Richard Salomon, affiliation, Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project
Context triple: [Richard Salomon, affiliation, Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project]
  • A. Gandhari birch-bark manuscripts
    The Gandhari birch-bark manuscripts are some of the oldest surviving Buddhist texts, written in the Gandhari language on birch bark and providing crucial evidence for early Buddhist literature and the history of the northwest Indian subcontinent.
  • B. Lontara manuscripts
    Lontara manuscripts are traditional Bugis script documents from South Sulawesi that record histories, genealogies, laws, and religious and cultural knowledge.
  • C. Turfan manuscripts
    The Turfan manuscripts are a significant collection of ancient Central Asian texts, preserving religious, literary, and administrative writings in multiple languages and scripts that illuminate the cultural and linguistic history of the Silk Road region.
  • D. Tripitaka
    Tripitaka is the traditional Buddhist canon, comprising three collections of teachings that form the foundational scriptures of the Buddhist religion.
  • E. Chinese Buddhist Canon
    The Chinese Buddhist Canon is the comprehensive collection of Buddhist scriptures translated into Chinese over many centuries, encompassing sutras, vinaya texts, and commentaries that shaped East Asian Buddhism.
  • 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: Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project
Triple: [Richard Salomon, affiliation, Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project]
Generated description
The Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project is a scholarly initiative dedicated to studying, editing, and publishing some of the oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts, particularly those written in Gandhari and related early Indic languages.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project
Target entity description: The Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project is a scholarly initiative dedicated to studying, editing, and publishing some of the oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts, particularly those written in Gandhari and related early Indic languages.
  • A. Gandhari birch-bark manuscripts chosen
    The Gandhari birch-bark manuscripts are some of the oldest surviving Buddhist texts, written in the Gandhari language on birch bark and providing crucial evidence for early Buddhist literature and the history of the northwest Indian subcontinent.
  • B. Lontara manuscripts
    Lontara manuscripts are traditional Bugis script documents from South Sulawesi that record histories, genealogies, laws, and religious and cultural knowledge.
  • C. Turfan manuscripts
    The Turfan manuscripts are a significant collection of ancient Central Asian texts, preserving religious, literary, and administrative writings in multiple languages and scripts that illuminate the cultural and linguistic history of the Silk Road region.
  • D. Tripitaka
    Tripitaka is the traditional Buddhist canon, comprising three collections of teachings that form the foundational scriptures of the Buddhist religion.
  • E. Chinese Buddhist Canon
    The Chinese Buddhist Canon is the comprehensive collection of Buddhist scriptures translated into Chinese over many centuries, encompassing sutras, vinaya texts, and commentaries that shaped East Asian Buddhism.
  • 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_69e0b50b53048190ae34e8abbe3c5ada completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e7235d1c788190a28577a753532b2a completed April 21, 2026, 7:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a096dba49b08190b575d866a8b02998 completed May 17, 2026, 7:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a096e9ddbe481909a27549d7458fda6 completed May 17, 2026, 7:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a096f5e96cc8190b3be5a773868bd32 completed May 17, 2026, 7:33 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:57 p.m.