Triple

T10851453
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject China Merchants Steam Navigation Company E256154 entity
Predicate subordinateTo P258 FINISHED
Object Beiyang Bureau
The Beiyang Bureau was a late Qing dynasty governmental agency responsible for overseeing northern China's maritime affairs, including state-sponsored shipping and naval modernization efforts.
E888817 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: Beiyang Bureau | Statement: [China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, subordinateTo, Beiyang Bureau]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Beiyang Bureau
Context triple: [China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, subordinateTo, Beiyang Bureau]
  • A. Beiyang Army
    The Beiyang Army was a powerful, modernized military force of late Qing and early Republican China that played a decisive role in the 1911 Revolution and subsequent warlord era.
  • B. Beiyang Fleet
    The Beiyang Fleet was the late Qing dynasty’s principal modern naval force, which suffered devastating losses to Japan in the First Sino-Japanese War, marking a turning point in East Asian naval power.
  • C. Republic of China Navy
    The Republic of China Navy is Taiwan’s maritime military force, responsible for defending its territorial waters and sea lanes, particularly in the sensitive Taiwan Strait region.
  • D. Fengtian
    Fengtian is the historical name of Shenyang, a major city in northeastern China that has long served as a political and economic center of the region.
  • E. Republic of China Marine Corps
    The Republic of China Marine Corps is the amphibious warfare branch of Taiwan’s military, specializing in rapid deployment, coastal defense, and island-based operations.
  • 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: Beiyang Bureau
Triple: [China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, subordinateTo, Beiyang Bureau]
Generated description
The Beiyang Bureau was a late Qing dynasty governmental agency responsible for overseeing northern China's maritime affairs, including state-sponsored shipping and naval modernization efforts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Beiyang Bureau
Target entity description: The Beiyang Bureau was a late Qing dynasty governmental agency responsible for overseeing northern China's maritime affairs, including state-sponsored shipping and naval modernization efforts.
  • A. Beiyang Army
    The Beiyang Army was a powerful, modernized military force of late Qing and early Republican China that played a decisive role in the 1911 Revolution and subsequent warlord era.
  • B. Beiyang Fleet
    The Beiyang Fleet was the late Qing dynasty’s principal modern naval force, which suffered devastating losses to Japan in the First Sino-Japanese War, marking a turning point in East Asian naval power.
  • C. Republic of China Navy
    The Republic of China Navy is Taiwan’s maritime military force, responsible for defending its territorial waters and sea lanes, particularly in the sensitive Taiwan Strait region.
  • D. Fengtian
    Fengtian is the historical name of Shenyang, a major city in northeastern China that has long served as a political and economic center of the region.
  • E. Republic of China Marine Corps
    The Republic of China Marine Corps is the amphibious warfare branch of Taiwan’s military, specializing in rapid deployment, coastal defense, and island-based operations.
  • 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_69d6aa81a5d08190aa86689061d1ddd2 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d75117b76c8190b0fb216b1428c3c7 completed April 9, 2026, 7:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69deb17d978c8190883b4a56e88859de completed April 14, 2026, 9:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69deb515ab608190981689bcad4b7530 completed April 14, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69deb602fa908190bffdd291932da3f1 completed April 14, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:20 p.m.