Triple

T11119885
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan E262987 entity
Predicate pollutionMedium P31092 FINISHED
Object Minamata Bay
Minamata Bay is a coastal body of water in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, historically infamous as the site of severe industrial mercury contamination that caused the Minamata disease health disaster.
E791861 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: Minamata Bay | Statement: [Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, pollutionMedium, Minamata Bay]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Minamata Bay
Context triple: [Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, pollutionMedium, Minamata Bay]
  • A. Toyama Bay
    Toyama Bay is a deep, semi-enclosed bay on the northern coast of Japan’s Honshu island, known for its rich fisheries, steep underwater topography, and bioluminescent firefly squid.
  • B. Minamata
    Minamata is a powerful photo-essay and book by W. Eugene Smith documenting the devastating effects of industrial mercury poisoning on a Japanese fishing community.
  • C. Minamata
    Minamata is a coastal Japanese city historically known for the devastating industrial mercury poisoning disaster that led to the identification of Minamata disease.
  • D. Suruga Bay
    Suruga Bay is a deep coastal bay on the Pacific coast of central Honshu, Japan, known for its steep underwater topography and proximity to Mount Fuji.
  • E. Ise Bay
    Ise Bay is a large bay in central Japan opening to the Pacific Ocean, known for its important ports, fisheries, and surrounding industrial and urban areas including Nagoya.
  • 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: Minamata Bay
Triple: [Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, pollutionMedium, Minamata Bay]
Generated description
Minamata Bay is a coastal body of water in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, historically infamous as the site of severe industrial mercury contamination that caused the Minamata disease health disaster.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Minamata Bay
Target entity description: Minamata Bay is a coastal body of water in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, historically infamous as the site of severe industrial mercury contamination that caused the Minamata disease health disaster.
  • A. Toyama Bay
    Toyama Bay is a deep, semi-enclosed bay on the northern coast of Japan’s Honshu island, known for its rich fisheries, steep underwater topography, and bioluminescent firefly squid.
  • B. Minamata
    Minamata is a powerful photo-essay and book by W. Eugene Smith documenting the devastating effects of industrial mercury poisoning on a Japanese fishing community.
  • C. Minamata chosen
    Minamata is a coastal Japanese city historically known for the devastating industrial mercury poisoning disaster that led to the identification of Minamata disease.
  • D. Suruga Bay
    Suruga Bay is a deep coastal bay on the Pacific coast of central Honshu, Japan, known for its steep underwater topography and proximity to Mount Fuji.
  • E. Ise Bay
    Ise Bay is a large bay in central Japan opening to the Pacific Ocean, known for its important ports, fisheries, and surrounding industrial and urban areas including Nagoya.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d6aa9b46cc8190b19f9f0cc45bf322 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d79af7b72c8190a19dbcbb3a69fb5b completed April 9, 2026, 12:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e42d8406988190837a16d7ad8048d1 completed April 19, 2026, 1:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e4374700b881908ebb185ae020487b completed April 19, 2026, 2 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e4399385c08190852c3cbd730a1f11 completed April 19, 2026, 2:10 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:28 p.m.