Triple

T12789362
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin E305715 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Britain and Japan (1858)
The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Britain and Japan (1858) was a pivotal unequal treaty that opened Japan to British trade and diplomatic relations during the late Tokugawa shogunate, significantly influencing Japan’s subsequent modernization and foreign policy.
E1002757 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: Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Britain and Japan (1858) | Statement: [James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, notableWork, Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Britain and Japan (1858)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Britain and Japan (1858)
Context triple: [James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, notableWork, Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Britain and Japan (1858)]
  • A. Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan
    The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan was an 1858 agreement that opened Japan to extensive American trade and diplomatic relations, marking a key step in ending Japan’s isolationist policies.
  • B. Harris Treaty of 1858
    The Harris Treaty of 1858 was a landmark U.S.–Japan agreement that opened Japanese ports to American trade, granted extraterritorial rights to U.S. citizens, and marked a key step in ending Japan’s isolationist policies.
  • C. Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation
    The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation was a 1794 agreement between the United States and Great Britain that sought to resolve lingering issues from the American Revolutionary War and normalize trade and diplomatic relations.
  • D. Treaty of Shimoda
    The Treaty of Shimoda was an 1855 agreement between the Russian Empire and Japan that established formal diplomatic relations and defined their borders in the Kuril Islands and surrounding regions.
  • E. Burlingame Treaty
    The Burlingame Treaty was an 1868 agreement between the United States and China that expanded diplomatic relations, affirmed mutual rights of travel and residence, and marked a brief period of more open and equal Sino-American engagement.
  • 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: Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Britain and Japan (1858)
Triple: [James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, notableWork, Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Britain and Japan (1858)]
Generated description
The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Britain and Japan (1858) was a pivotal unequal treaty that opened Japan to British trade and diplomatic relations during the late Tokugawa shogunate, significantly influencing Japan’s subsequent modernization and foreign policy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Britain and Japan (1858)
Target entity description: The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Britain and Japan (1858) was a pivotal unequal treaty that opened Japan to British trade and diplomatic relations during the late Tokugawa shogunate, significantly influencing Japan’s subsequent modernization and foreign policy.
  • A. Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan
    The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan was an 1858 agreement that opened Japan to extensive American trade and diplomatic relations, marking a key step in ending Japan’s isolationist policies.
  • B. Harris Treaty of 1858
    The Harris Treaty of 1858 was a landmark U.S.–Japan agreement that opened Japanese ports to American trade, granted extraterritorial rights to U.S. citizens, and marked a key step in ending Japan’s isolationist policies.
  • C. Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation
    The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation was a 1794 agreement between the United States and Great Britain that sought to resolve lingering issues from the American Revolutionary War and normalize trade and diplomatic relations.
  • D. Treaty of Shimoda
    The Treaty of Shimoda was an 1855 agreement between the Russian Empire and Japan that established formal diplomatic relations and defined their borders in the Kuril Islands and surrounding regions.
  • E. Burlingame Treaty
    The Burlingame Treaty was an 1868 agreement between the United States and China that expanded diplomatic relations, affirmed mutual rights of travel and residence, and marked a brief period of more open and equal Sino-American engagement.
  • 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_69d7bdf366888190a8cccb982606889c completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96e6a61f48190972e241e70bc392c completed April 10, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f68508e4488190bb57a1ade93987ab completed May 2, 2026, 11:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f687ae18c08190a94dca38bb69d10f completed May 2, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f68884ed348190a1b2c89b1d655fa9 completed May 2, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:30 p.m.