Triple

T1391372
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Northern Expedition E29965 entity
Predicate opponent P437 FINISHED
Object Zhang Zuolin
Zhang Zuolin was a powerful Chinese warlord who controlled Manchuria and led the Fengtian clique during the turbulent Warlord Era of the early 20th century.
E159987 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: Zhang Zuolin | Statement: [Northern Expedition, opponent, Zhang Zuolin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zhang Zuolin
Context triple: [Northern Expedition, opponent, Zhang Zuolin]
  • A. Li Yuanhong
    Li Yuanhong was a Chinese military leader and politician who became a key figure in the 1911 Revolution and later served as president of the Republic of China.
  • B. Feng Yuxiang
    Feng Yuxiang was a prominent Chinese warlord and nationalist general known for his shifting alliances, modernization efforts, and significant role in the early 20th-century Chinese military and political landscape.
  • C. Zhang Xueliang
    Zhang Xueliang was a prominent Chinese warlord and Nationalist general best known for his role in the 1936 Xi'an Incident, which forced Chiang Kai-shek to cooperate with the Chinese Communists against Japan.
  • D. Yan Xishan
    Yan Xishan was a prominent Chinese warlord and political leader who controlled Shanxi province for decades and played a significant role in Republican-era Chinese military and political affairs.
  • E. Yuan Shikai
    Yuan Shikai was a powerful late Qing and early Republican Chinese military and political leader who became the first president of the Republic of China and briefly declared himself emperor.
  • 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: Zhang Zuolin
Triple: [Northern Expedition, opponent, Zhang Zuolin]
Generated description
Zhang Zuolin was a powerful Chinese warlord who controlled Manchuria and led the Fengtian clique during the turbulent Warlord Era of the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zhang Zuolin
Target entity description: Zhang Zuolin was a powerful Chinese warlord who controlled Manchuria and led the Fengtian clique during the turbulent Warlord Era of the early 20th century.
  • A. Li Yuanhong
    Li Yuanhong was a Chinese military leader and politician who became a key figure in the 1911 Revolution and later served as president of the Republic of China.
  • B. Feng Yuxiang
    Feng Yuxiang was a prominent Chinese warlord and nationalist general known for his shifting alliances, modernization efforts, and significant role in the early 20th-century Chinese military and political landscape.
  • C. Zhang Xueliang
    Zhang Xueliang was a prominent Chinese warlord and Nationalist general best known for his role in the 1936 Xi'an Incident, which forced Chiang Kai-shek to cooperate with the Chinese Communists against Japan.
  • D. Yan Xishan
    Yan Xishan was a prominent Chinese warlord and political leader who controlled Shanxi province for decades and played a significant role in Republican-era Chinese military and political affairs.
  • E. Yuan Shikai
    Yuan Shikai was a powerful late Qing and early Republican Chinese military and political leader who became the first president of the Republic of China and briefly declared himself emperor.
  • 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_69a498dc92f8819094a1108f8ac90f43 completed March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c35f7ab081909fe81dd475d6196f completed March 1, 2026, 10:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acde28dd888190baa4a26f96f33e0a completed March 8, 2026, 2:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acded052a88190945cf7a2af019c68 completed March 8, 2026, 2:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acdf41eb5c819088f2203f33995ccb completed March 8, 2026, 2:30 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.