Triple

T13828991
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nigo E332333 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Tomoaki Nagao
Tomoaki Nagao, better known as Nigo, is a Japanese fashion designer, DJ, and entrepreneur famed for founding the streetwear brand A Bathing Ape (BAPE) and influencing global street culture.
E1125395 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: Tomoaki Nagao | Statement: [Nigo, birthName, Tomoaki Nagao]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tomoaki Nagao
Context triple: [Nigo, birthName, Tomoaki Nagao]
  • A. Maeda Yoshinori
    Maeda Yoshinori was a Japanese daimyō of the Maeda clan who ruled part of Kaga Domain during the Edo period.
  • B. Kobayakawa Hideaki
    Kobayakawa Hideaki was a late Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō best known for his pivotal betrayal at the Battle of Sekigahara, which helped secure Tokugawa Ieyasu’s victory and the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate.
  • C. Sotaro Takeda
    Sotaro Takeda was a high-ranking Japanese naval officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Combined Fleet.
  • D. Hiroyuki Sanada
    Hiroyuki Sanada is a Japanese actor renowned for his versatile performances in both Japanese cinema and international films and television series.
  • E. Shingen Yashida
    Shingen Yashida is a Marvel Comics character, often depicted as a powerful and ruthless Japanese crime lord and adversary of Wolverine.
  • 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: Tomoaki Nagao
Triple: [Nigo, birthName, Tomoaki Nagao]
Generated description
Tomoaki Nagao, better known as Nigo, is a Japanese fashion designer, DJ, and entrepreneur famed for founding the streetwear brand A Bathing Ape (BAPE) and influencing global street culture.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tomoaki Nagao
Target entity description: Tomoaki Nagao, better known as Nigo, is a Japanese fashion designer, DJ, and entrepreneur famed for founding the streetwear brand A Bathing Ape (BAPE) and influencing global street culture.
  • A. Maeda Yoshinori
    Maeda Yoshinori was a Japanese daimyō of the Maeda clan who ruled part of Kaga Domain during the Edo period.
  • B. Kobayakawa Hideaki
    Kobayakawa Hideaki was a late Sengoku-period Japanese daimyō best known for his pivotal betrayal at the Battle of Sekigahara, which helped secure Tokugawa Ieyasu’s victory and the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate.
  • C. Sotaro Takeda
    Sotaro Takeda was a high-ranking Japanese naval officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Combined Fleet.
  • D. Hiroyuki Sanada
    Hiroyuki Sanada is a Japanese actor renowned for his versatile performances in both Japanese cinema and international films and television series.
  • E. Shingen Yashida
    Shingen Yashida is a Marvel Comics character, often depicted as a powerful and ruthless Japanese crime lord and adversary of Wolverine.
  • 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_69d81c5ae7c88190b0dd41bdafeb5999 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de02970df88190a1bf35dffd131d9d completed April 14, 2026, 9:02 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe6b38823881909c9df93371782b47 completed May 8, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe6d2b3d688190b8c004fae1127d59 completed May 8, 2026, 11:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe6e0950e481909c63e47bc98267bf completed May 8, 2026, 11:13 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:13 p.m.