Triple

T13527734
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies E323054 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object John King Fairbank
John King Fairbank was a pioneering American historian and sinologist whose scholarship fundamentally shaped Western understanding of modern Chinese history.
E1044644 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: John King Fairbank | Statement: [Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, namedAfter, John King Fairbank]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John King Fairbank
Context triple: [Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, namedAfter, John King Fairbank]
  • A. Edwin O. Reischauer
    Edwin O. Reischauer was an influential American diplomat and scholar of Japanese studies who served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan and helped shape postwar U.S.–Japan relations.
  • B. Richard Dana Fairbank
    Richard Dana Fairbank is an American businessman best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of Capital One Financial Corporation.
  • C. Frederic Wakeman Sr.
    Frederic Wakeman Sr. was an American novelist best known for his sharp, satirical depictions of postwar American business and advertising culture.
  • D. Kenneth H. Jackson
    Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
  • E. William Chenery
    William Chenery was an American journalist and editor best known for his influential leadership of Collier’s magazine during the early 20th century.
  • 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: John King Fairbank
Triple: [Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, namedAfter, John King Fairbank]
Generated description
John King Fairbank was a pioneering American historian and sinologist whose scholarship fundamentally shaped Western understanding of modern Chinese history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John King Fairbank
Target entity description: John King Fairbank was a pioneering American historian and sinologist whose scholarship fundamentally shaped Western understanding of modern Chinese history.
  • A. Edwin O. Reischauer
    Edwin O. Reischauer was an influential American diplomat and scholar of Japanese studies who served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan and helped shape postwar U.S.–Japan relations.
  • B. Richard Dana Fairbank
    Richard Dana Fairbank is an American businessman best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of Capital One Financial Corporation.
  • C. Frederic Wakeman Sr.
    Frederic Wakeman Sr. was an American novelist best known for his sharp, satirical depictions of postwar American business and advertising culture.
  • D. Kenneth H. Jackson
    Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
  • E. William Chenery
    William Chenery was an American journalist and editor best known for his influential leadership of Collier’s magazine during the early 20th century.
  • 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_69d80766a21881909f21a1b7421d3b8a completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbafb8e0cc8190b47f6aeb8ced470e completed April 12, 2026, 2:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7549dda6481908e9305690488b1af completed May 3, 2026, 1:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7555173d08190be887e81c148192e completed May 3, 2026, 2:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f75675df788190b4aa562fe0bc1d75 completed May 3, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:44 p.m.