Triple

T11989056
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject President of the Asian Development Bank E285356 entity
Predicate firstHolder P291 FINISHED
Object Takeshi Watanabe
Takeshi Watanabe was a Japanese banker and international civil servant best known for serving as the inaugural president of the Asian Development Bank, helping shape its early development and policies.
E1009454 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: Takeshi Watanabe | Statement: [President of the Asian Development Bank, firstHolder, Takeshi Watanabe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Takeshi Watanabe
Context triple: [President of the Asian Development Bank, firstHolder, Takeshi Watanabe]
  • A. Gedde Watanabe
    Gedde Watanabe is an American character actor and comedian best known for his roles in films like "Sixteen Candles" and for voicing Ling in Disney's "Mulan."
  • B. Michio Watanabe
    Michio Watanabe was a prominent Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who held key cabinet posts, including Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, and was known as a powerful party faction leader.
  • C. Shintaro Fujinami
    Shintaro Fujinami is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher known for his power arm and early stardom in Nippon Professional Baseball before moving to Major League Baseball.
  • D. Takeshi Ando
    Takeshi Ando is a Japanese sculptor best known for creating the current bronze statue of the loyal dog Hachiko in Tokyo.
  • E. Kazuo Watanabe
    Kazuo Watanabe is a Japanese physicist and academic known for mentoring Sumio Iijima, the pioneering nanotechnology researcher who discovered carbon nanotubes.
  • 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: Takeshi Watanabe
Triple: [President of the Asian Development Bank, firstHolder, Takeshi Watanabe]
Generated description
Takeshi Watanabe was a Japanese banker and international civil servant best known for serving as the inaugural president of the Asian Development Bank, helping shape its early development and policies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Takeshi Watanabe
Target entity description: Takeshi Watanabe was a Japanese banker and international civil servant best known for serving as the inaugural president of the Asian Development Bank, helping shape its early development and policies.
  • A. Gedde Watanabe
    Gedde Watanabe is an American character actor and comedian best known for his roles in films like "Sixteen Candles" and for voicing Ling in Disney's "Mulan."
  • B. Michio Watanabe
    Michio Watanabe was a prominent Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who held key cabinet posts, including Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, and was known as a powerful party faction leader.
  • C. Shintaro Fujinami
    Shintaro Fujinami is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher known for his power arm and early stardom in Nippon Professional Baseball before moving to Major League Baseball.
  • D. Takeshi Ando
    Takeshi Ando is a Japanese sculptor best known for creating the current bronze statue of the loyal dog Hachiko in Tokyo.
  • E. Kazuo Watanabe
    Kazuo Watanabe is a Japanese physicist and academic known for mentoring Sumio Iijima, the pioneering nanotechnology researcher who discovered carbon nanotubes.
  • 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_69d6ab44a77c8190a652f4b27164e4ef completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d903ae28708190a826bad1624343eb completed April 10, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6a52fcfa081909cc312a56bf12693 completed May 3, 2026, 1:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6a616f6e4819096c9850434882548 completed May 3, 2026, 1:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6a716bb2c81909dccc5ddbf3c92b5 completed May 3, 2026, 1:38 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.