Triple

T11152401
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shogun E263817 entity
Predicate portraysFictionalizedVersionOf P10301 FINISHED
Object William Adams
William Adams was an English navigator who became one of the first Western samurai in Japan and served as the historical inspiration for the protagonist of James Clavell’s novel "Shogun."
 E908416 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: William Adams | Statement: [Shogun, portraysFictionalizedVersionOf, William Adams]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Adams
Context triple: [Shogun, portraysFictionalizedVersionOf, William Adams]
  • A. William Adams
    William Adams was an English philanthropist and educational benefactor best known for endowing schools in the 17th century.
  • B. William Adams
    William Adams was a British diplomat and lawyer who served as one of the United Kingdom’s plenipotentiaries in negotiating the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain.
  • C. W. Adams
    W. Adams is an author best known for writing the work titled "Gold Digger."
  • D. William James Adams Jr.
    William James Adams Jr., better known as will.i.am, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, and founding member of the hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas.
  • E. John May
    John May was a Chicago gangster and mechanic for Bugs Moran’s North Side Gang who was killed in the 1929 Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.
  • 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: William Adams
Triple: [Shogun, portraysFictionalizedVersionOf, William Adams]
Generated description
William Adams was an English navigator who became one of the first Western samurai in Japan and served as the historical inspiration for the protagonist of James Clavell’s novel "Shogun."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Adams
Target entity description: William Adams was an English navigator who became one of the first Western samurai in Japan and served as the historical inspiration for the protagonist of James Clavell’s novel "Shogun."
  • A. William Adams
    William Adams was a British diplomat and lawyer who served as one of the United Kingdom’s plenipotentiaries in negotiating the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain.
  • B. William Adams
    William Adams was an English philanthropist and educational benefactor best known for endowing schools in the 17th century.
  • C. W. Adams
    W. Adams is an author best known for writing the work titled "Gold Digger."
  • D. William James Adams Jr.
    William James Adams Jr., better known as will.i.am, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, and founding member of the hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas.
  • E. John May
    John May was a Chicago gangster and mechanic for Bugs Moran’s North Side Gang who was killed in the 1929 Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.
  • 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_69d6aa9ccddc8190868998c8b7beb060 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e8719e74819095413abc6c79296c completed April 9, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e46334125c81909e2807b2c7e573b9 completed April 19, 2026, 5:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e46c3448348190b2c062d21771066d completed April 19, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e46dadbc5c8190b41279a05731dc95 completed April 19, 2026, 5:52 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:28 p.m.