Triple
T10868753
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Wade–Giles |
E256595
|
entity |
| Predicate | developer |
P73
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Herbert Allen Giles |
E890622
|
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: Herbert Allen Giles | Statement: [Wade–Giles, developer, Herbert Allen Giles]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert Allen Giles Context triple: [Wade–Giles, developer, Herbert Allen Giles]
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A.
Herbert Giles
chosen
Herbert Giles was a British sinologist and diplomat best known for co-developing the Wade–Giles system of romanizing Chinese.
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B.
James Legge
James Legge was a 19th-century Scottish sinologist, missionary, and pioneering translator of the Chinese classics into English.
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C.
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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D.
William Farquhar
William Farquhar was a Scottish colonial administrator and soldier best known as the first British Resident and Commandant of Singapore, where he played a key role in its early development under the British East India Company.
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E.
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.
- 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_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_69e154cc97f88190aef41d18b5ebe836 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 9:29 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:20 p.m.