Triple
T10851472
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | China Merchants Steam Navigation Company |
E256154
|
entity |
| Predicate | alsoKnownAs |
P39
|
FINISHED |
| Object | China Merchants Steamship Company |
E256154
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: China Merchants Steamship Company | Statement: [China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, alsoKnownAs, China Merchants Steamship Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: China Merchants Steamship Company Context triple: [China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, alsoKnownAs, China Merchants Steamship Company]
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A.
China Merchants Steam Navigation Company
chosen
The China Merchants Steam Navigation Company was a pioneering late Qing dynasty Chinese shipping enterprise that symbolized the country's early efforts at state-led industrial and commercial modernization.
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B.
Beiyang Railway Company
The Beiyang Railway Company was a pioneering late Qing dynasty Chinese railway enterprise that played a key role in the early development of modern rail transport and industrialization in northern China.
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C.
Red Star Line
Red Star Line was a prominent Belgian-American shipping company that operated transatlantic passenger and freight services between Europe and North America from the late 19th to early 20th century.
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D.
Shanghai International Port Group
Shanghai International Port Group is a major Chinese state-owned enterprise that operates and manages the Port of Shanghai, one of the world’s busiest container ports.
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E.
Cathay
Cathay is a 1915 poetry collection by Ezra Pound, celebrated for its influential, imagist-era translations and adaptations of classical Chinese poems.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:20 p.m.