Triple
T10868727
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Wade–Giles |
E256595
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Herbert Giles
Herbert Giles was a British sinologist and diplomat best known for co-developing the Wade–Giles system of romanizing Chinese.
|
E890622
|
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: Herbert Giles | Statement: [Wade–Giles, namedAfter, Herbert Giles]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert Giles Context triple: [Wade–Giles, namedAfter, Herbert Giles]
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A.
James Legge
James Legge was a 19th-century Scottish sinologist, missionary, and pioneering translator of the Chinese classics into English.
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B.
Walter Henry Medhurst
Walter Henry Medhurst was a 19th-century British Protestant missionary and sinologist known for his influential work in Chinese linguistics, translation, and Bible dissemination in East Asia.
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C.
Reynold A. Nicholson
Reynold A. Nicholson was a prominent British orientalist and scholar of Islamic mysticism, renowned for his pioneering English translations and studies of Sufi literature and Persian poetry.
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D.
Edward William Lane
Edward William Lane was a 19th-century British Orientalist and translator best known for his influential Arabic–English lexicon and his English rendition of "One Thousand and One Nights."
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E.
Aurel Stein
Aurel Stein was a Hungarian-British archaeologist and explorer renowned for his pioneering expeditions in Central Asia, during which he uncovered important Silk Road manuscripts and archaeological sites.
- 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: Herbert Giles Triple: [Wade–Giles, namedAfter, Herbert Giles]
Generated description
Herbert Giles was a British sinologist and diplomat 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: Herbert Giles Target entity description: Herbert Giles was a British sinologist and diplomat best known for co-developing the Wade–Giles system of romanizing Chinese.
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A.
James Legge
James Legge was a 19th-century Scottish sinologist, missionary, and pioneering translator of the Chinese classics into English.
-
B.
Walter Henry Medhurst
Walter Henry Medhurst was a 19th-century British Protestant missionary and sinologist known for his influential work in Chinese linguistics, translation, and Bible dissemination in East Asia.
-
C.
Reynold A. Nicholson
Reynold A. Nicholson was a prominent British orientalist and scholar of Islamic mysticism, renowned for his pioneering English translations and studies of Sufi literature and Persian poetry.
-
D.
Edward William Lane
Edward William Lane was a 19th-century British Orientalist and translator best known for his influential Arabic–English lexicon and his English rendition of "One Thousand and One Nights."
-
E.
Aurel Stein
Aurel Stein was a Hungarian-British archaeologist and explorer renowned for his pioneering expeditions in Central Asia, during which he uncovered important Silk Road manuscripts and archaeological sites.
- 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.