Triple

T10868726
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wade–Giles E256595 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Thomas Wade
Thomas Wade was a 19th-century British diplomat and sinologist best known for co-developing the Wade–Giles system of romanizing Chinese.
 E890621 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: Thomas Wade | Statement: [Wade–Giles, namedAfter, Thomas Wade]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Wade
Context triple: [Wade–Giles, namedAfter, Thomas Wade]
  • A. James Lingk
    James Lingk is a timid, easily manipulated client in David Mamet’s play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross," whose wavering real estate purchase becomes central to the story’s moral and legal conflicts.
  • B. William Ching
    William Ching was an American film and television actor active in the mid-20th century, known for supporting roles in comedies, dramas, and Westerns.
  • C. William Kong
    William Kong is a prominent Hong Kong film producer best known internationally for his work on acclaimed movies such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
  • D. Winston Chao
    Winston Chao is a Taiwanese actor best known internationally for his leading role in Ang Lee’s film "The Wedding Banquet" and for portraying historical figure Sun Yat-sen in multiple Chinese-language productions.
  • E. Cecil Chao
    Cecil Chao is a Hong Kong billionaire property developer best known internationally for offering large monetary rewards to any man who could successfully marry his lesbian daughter.
  • 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: Thomas Wade
Triple: [Wade–Giles, namedAfter, Thomas Wade]
Generated description
Thomas Wade was a 19th-century British diplomat and sinologist best known for co-developing the Wade–Giles system of romanizing Chinese.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Wade
Target entity description: Thomas Wade was a 19th-century British diplomat and sinologist best known for co-developing the Wade–Giles system of romanizing Chinese.
  • A. James Lingk
    James Lingk is a timid, easily manipulated client in David Mamet’s play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross," whose wavering real estate purchase becomes central to the story’s moral and legal conflicts.
  • B. William Ching
    William Ching was an American film and television actor active in the mid-20th century, known for supporting roles in comedies, dramas, and Westerns.
  • C. William Kong
    William Kong is a prominent Hong Kong film producer best known internationally for his work on acclaimed movies such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
  • D. Winston Chao
    Winston Chao is a Taiwanese actor best known internationally for his leading role in Ang Lee’s film "The Wedding Banquet" and for portraying historical figure Sun Yat-sen in multiple Chinese-language productions.
  • E. Cecil Chao
    Cecil Chao is a Hong Kong billionaire property developer best known internationally for offering large monetary rewards to any man who could successfully marry his lesbian daughter.
  • 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_69d6aa83d1448190a66d93c32394d21f completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d75170665881909944f92c2cdbe7e6 completed April 9, 2026, 7:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69dff7d9ce3c8190afeb2a27fb82b594 completed April 15, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e03cc71a4c81909147945dff371217 completed April 16, 2026, 1:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e03dfb02c4819087a697ba7f5a1135 completed April 16, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:20 p.m.