Triple

T10187761
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kiautschou Bay concession E236954 entity
Predicate startEvent P3267 FINISHED
Object Sino-German treaty of 1898
The Sino-German treaty of 1898 was an agreement by which the Qing Empire granted Germany extensive colonial and naval rights in Jiaozhou (Kiautschou) Bay, helping establish the German leasehold and port of Qingdao in Shandong.
E236954 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: Sino-German treaty of 1898 | Statement: [Kiautschou Bay concession, startEvent, Sino-German treaty of 1898]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sino-German treaty of 1898
Context triple: [Kiautschou Bay concession, startEvent, Sino-German treaty of 1898]
  • A. Treaty of Tientsin (1885)
    The Treaty of Tientsin (1885) was the agreement that ended the Sino-French War, confirming French control over Vietnam and redefining Qing China's influence in the region.
  • B. Treaty of Tientsin
    The Treaty of Tientsin was an 1858 agreement that forced Qing China to grant Western powers expanded trade rights, legal privileges, and the opening of additional ports, significantly increasing foreign influence in China.
  • C. Kiautschou Bay concession
    The Kiautschou Bay concession was a German colonial leasehold in China centered on the port of Qingdao, serving as a strategic naval base and commercial hub for the German Empire from 1898 to 1914.
  • D. Convention of Chefoo
    The Convention of Chefoo was an 1876 treaty between the Qing dynasty and Great Britain that expanded British commercial and diplomatic privileges in China following the Margary Affair.
  • E. Xinchou Treaty
    The Xinchou Treaty, better known as the Boxer Protocol of 1901, was the punitive agreement imposed on Qing China by foreign powers after the Boxer Rebellion, extracting heavy indemnities and concessions.
  • 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: Sino-German treaty of 1898
Triple: [Kiautschou Bay concession, startEvent, Sino-German treaty of 1898]
Generated description
The Sino-German treaty of 1898 was an agreement by which the Qing Empire granted Germany extensive colonial and naval rights in Jiaozhou (Kiautschou) Bay, helping establish the German leasehold and port of Qingdao in Shandong.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sino-German treaty of 1898
Target entity description: The Sino-German treaty of 1898 was an agreement by which the Qing Empire granted Germany extensive colonial and naval rights in Jiaozhou (Kiautschou) Bay, helping establish the German leasehold and port of Qingdao in Shandong.
  • A. Treaty of Tientsin (1885)
    The Treaty of Tientsin (1885) was the agreement that ended the Sino-French War, confirming French control over Vietnam and redefining Qing China's influence in the region.
  • B. Treaty of Tientsin
    The Treaty of Tientsin was an 1858 agreement that forced Qing China to grant Western powers expanded trade rights, legal privileges, and the opening of additional ports, significantly increasing foreign influence in China.
  • C. Kiautschou Bay concession chosen
    The Kiautschou Bay concession was a German colonial leasehold in China centered on the port of Qingdao, serving as a strategic naval base and commercial hub for the German Empire from 1898 to 1914.
  • D. Convention of Chefoo
    The Convention of Chefoo was an 1876 treaty between the Qing dynasty and Great Britain that expanded British commercial and diplomatic privileges in China following the Margary Affair.
  • E. Xinchou Treaty
    The Xinchou Treaty, better known as the Boxer Protocol of 1901, was the punitive agreement imposed on Qing China by foreign powers after the Boxer Rebellion, extracting heavy indemnities and concessions.
  • 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_69ca84d7260c8190bfbec36762943f37 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cded7a7aac8190af8dcb8374e62d68 completed April 2, 2026, 4:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d317adddc88190a41d0eabe64f952b completed April 6, 2026, 2:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d31b9f32c08190af2e71641e9542b0 completed April 6, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d31c421e1081908763cc97e0b1317c completed April 6, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:12 p.m.