Triple

T14503896

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Noël Perrin	`E340212`	entity
Predicate	notableWork	`P4`	FINISHED
Object	Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879 Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879 is a historical study examining how and why Japan abandoned widespread firearm use and returned to traditional sword-based warfare during the early modern period.	`E1103030`	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: Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879 | Statement: [Noël Perrin, notableWork, Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879
Context triple: [Noël Perrin, notableWork, Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879]

A. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II is a Pulitzer Prize–winning historical study that examines Japan’s political, social, and cultural transformation under Allied occupation after World War II.
B. Samurai Japan
Samurai Japan is the nickname of Japan’s national baseball team, renowned for its strong international performances and multiple World Baseball Classic titles.
C. Sengoku
Sengoku refers to Japan’s turbulent “Warring States” period (c. 1467–1600), marked by constant military conflict, social upheaval, and the rise of powerful regional warlords.
D. Samurai Rebellion
Samurai Rebellion is a 1967 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Masaki Kobayashi, renowned for its powerful critique of feudal authority and its starring performance by Toshiro Mifune.
E. Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Bushido: The Soul of Japan is a seminal 1900 work of moral and cultural philosophy that explains the samurai code of ethics to Western readers.
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: Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879
Triple: [Noël Perrin, notableWork, Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879]

Generated description

Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879 is a historical study examining how and why Japan abandoned widespread firearm use and returned to traditional sword-based warfare during the early modern period.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879
Target entity description: Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879 is a historical study examining how and why Japan abandoned widespread firearm use and returned to traditional sword-based warfare during the early modern period.

A. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II is a Pulitzer Prize–winning historical study that examines Japan’s political, social, and cultural transformation under Allied occupation after World War II.
B. Samurai Japan
Samurai Japan is the nickname of Japan’s national baseball team, renowned for its strong international performances and multiple World Baseball Classic titles.
C. Sengoku
Sengoku refers to Japan’s turbulent “Warring States” period (c. 1467–1600), marked by constant military conflict, social upheaval, and the rise of powerful regional warlords.
D. Samurai Rebellion
Samurai Rebellion is a 1967 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Masaki Kobayashi, renowned for its powerful critique of feudal authority and its starring performance by Toshiro Mifune.
E. Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Bushido: The Soul of Japan is a seminal 1900 work of moral and cultural philosophy that explains the samurai code of ethics to Western readers.
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_69d822d9c0408190b9a2b3643e58bb4d`	completed	April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69de94e0f9048190a2d266cfa4f9dfb6`	completed	April 14, 2026, 7:26 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69fd6d9dba1081909154362b922a2417`	completed	May 8, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69fd6f24431c81908a25ad81c28da56d`	completed	May 8, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69fd6ff5a58881909987fa653e58a197`	completed	May 8, 2026, 5:09 a.m.

Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:21 a.m.