Triple

T11974875
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject International Opium Conventions E285013 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object Shanghai Opium Commission of 1909
The Shanghai Opium Commission of 1909 was an international gathering that marked one of the first major global efforts to investigate and curb the opium trade, laying groundwork for modern international drug control agreements.
E957278 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: Shanghai Opium Commission of 1909 | Statement: [International Opium Conventions, basedOn, Shanghai Opium Commission of 1909]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shanghai Opium Commission of 1909
Context triple: [International Opium Conventions, basedOn, Shanghai Opium Commission of 1909]
  • A. British concession in Canton
    The British concession in Canton was a foreign-controlled enclave in Guangzhou, China, established in the 19th century as part of the treaty port system that facilitated British trade and extraterritorial rights.
  • B. British concession in Amoy
    The British concession in Amoy was a 19th- and early 20th-century foreign-controlled enclave in the Chinese port city of Xiamen, established after the Opium Wars as part of Britain’s treaty port system.
  • C. Humen Opium Destruction
    Humen Opium Destruction refers to the 1839 event in which Chinese official Lin Zexu ordered and carried out the large-scale confiscation and destruction of foreign opium at Humen, an act that helped trigger the First Opium War between China and Britain.
  • D. Shanghai International Settlement
    The Shanghai International Settlement was a foreign-controlled enclave in Shanghai that operated from the mid-19th century until World War II, serving as a major hub of international trade, finance, and expatriate life in China.
  • E. British opium trade in China
    The British opium trade in China was a 19th-century system of illicit narcotics commerce, largely driven by British merchants and the East India Company, that flooded China with opium, destabilized its society and economy, and ultimately provoked the Opium Wars.
  • 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: Shanghai Opium Commission of 1909
Triple: [International Opium Conventions, basedOn, Shanghai Opium Commission of 1909]
Generated description
The Shanghai Opium Commission of 1909 was an international gathering that marked one of the first major global efforts to investigate and curb the opium trade, laying groundwork for modern international drug control agreements.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shanghai Opium Commission of 1909
Target entity description: The Shanghai Opium Commission of 1909 was an international gathering that marked one of the first major global efforts to investigate and curb the opium trade, laying groundwork for modern international drug control agreements.
  • A. British concession in Canton
    The British concession in Canton was a foreign-controlled enclave in Guangzhou, China, established in the 19th century as part of the treaty port system that facilitated British trade and extraterritorial rights.
  • B. British concession in Amoy
    The British concession in Amoy was a 19th- and early 20th-century foreign-controlled enclave in the Chinese port city of Xiamen, established after the Opium Wars as part of Britain’s treaty port system.
  • C. Humen Opium Destruction
    Humen Opium Destruction refers to the 1839 event in which Chinese official Lin Zexu ordered and carried out the large-scale confiscation and destruction of foreign opium at Humen, an act that helped trigger the First Opium War between China and Britain.
  • D. Shanghai International Settlement
    The Shanghai International Settlement was a foreign-controlled enclave in Shanghai that operated from the mid-19th century until World War II, serving as a major hub of international trade, finance, and expatriate life in China.
  • E. British opium trade in China
    The British opium trade in China was a 19th-century system of illicit narcotics commerce, largely driven by British merchants and the East India Company, that flooded China with opium, destabilized its society and economy, and ultimately provoked the Opium Wars.
  • 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_69d6ab2eaeb881909f7914758f859413 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9039107e48190ae4c4efd6257dd3c completed April 10, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f4598d62a8819087f83912d1e45b27 completed May 1, 2026, 7:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f45f8b1bc0819099574002cc131000 completed May 1, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f464ad85ac8190ae49f19cedb7d88a completed May 1, 2026, 8:30 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.