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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.