Triple

T21216020
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gaochang area oases E522837 entity
Predicate historicalRegion P915 FINISHED
Object Gaochang
Gaochang was an ancient Silk Road oasis kingdom and trading hub located near modern Turpan in Xinjiang, China.
E1475292 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: Gaochang | Statement: [Gaochang area oases, historicalRegion, Gaochang]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gaochang
Context triple: [Gaochang area oases, historicalRegion, Gaochang]
  • A. Longcheng
    Longcheng was the principal royal city and political center of the Xiongnu confederation in ancient Inner Asia.
  • B. Guangdu
    Guangdu is an ancient historical name for the area now known as Nanchong, a major city in Sichuan Province, China.
  • C. Baidi City
    Baidi City is an ancient fortress and historical town in Fengjie County, Chongqing, China, famed as a cultural landmark overlooking the Yangtze River and associated with classic Chinese poetry and the Three Gorges region.
  • D. Chengguan
    Chengguan was an influential Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and scholar renowned for his authoritative commentaries on Huayan (Avatamsaka) doctrine.
  • E. Chardzhou
    Chardzhou is the former name of Turkmenabat, a major city in eastern Turkmenistan located on the Amu Darya River.
  • 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: Gaochang
Triple: [Gaochang area oases, historicalRegion, Gaochang]
Generated description
Gaochang was an ancient Silk Road oasis kingdom and trading hub located near modern Turpan in Xinjiang, China.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gaochang
Target entity description: Gaochang was an ancient Silk Road oasis kingdom and trading hub located near modern Turpan in Xinjiang, China.
  • A. Longcheng
    Longcheng was the principal royal city and political center of the Xiongnu confederation in ancient Inner Asia.
  • B. Guangdu
    Guangdu is an ancient historical name for the area now known as Nanchong, a major city in Sichuan Province, China.
  • C. Baidi City
    Baidi City is an ancient fortress and historical town in Fengjie County, Chongqing, China, famed as a cultural landmark overlooking the Yangtze River and associated with classic Chinese poetry and the Three Gorges region.
  • D. Chengguan
    Chengguan was an influential Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and scholar renowned for his authoritative commentaries on Huayan (Avatamsaka) doctrine.
  • E. Chardzhou
    Chardzhou is the former name of Turkmenabat, a major city in eastern Turkmenistan located on the Amu Darya River.
  • 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_69e0b511ed84819099b449b4a111085c completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e73473870c8190a0f41f9c85567aa7 completed April 21, 2026, 8:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a098febb9d4819093d8ae8296f658f9 completed May 17, 2026, 9:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0991423b288190b190b1cbf2589323 completed May 17, 2026, 9:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09929e2ad881908e3497f9c3f2f77c completed May 17, 2026, 10:04 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 3:40 p.m.