Triple

T1524306
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ma E32300 entity
Predicate originatesFrom P26 FINISHED
Object Old Chinese
Old Chinese is the earliest attested stage of the Chinese language, spoken during the Shang and Zhou dynasties and reconstructed from ancient texts and inscriptions.
E175085 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: Old Chinese | Statement: [Ma, originatesFrom, Old Chinese]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Old Chinese
Context triple: [Ma, originatesFrom, Old Chinese]
  • A. Middle Chinese
    Middle Chinese is the historical stage of the Chinese language spoken during the Sui, Tang, and early Song dynasties, serving as the ancestor of many modern Chinese varieties and a key reference for historical phonology.
  • B. Classical Chinese
    Classical Chinese is the traditional written form of the Chinese language that served for centuries as the literary and scholarly standard across East Asia.
  • C. Yue Chinese
    Yue Chinese is a major branch of the Chinese language family, best known internationally through its prominent variety Cantonese spoken in southern China and among overseas Chinese communities.
  • D. Chinese language
    The Chinese language is a family of related Sinitic languages and dialects, including Mandarin, Cantonese, and others, spoken by over a billion people primarily in China and across Chinese-speaking communities worldwide.
  • E. Xiang Chinese
    Xiang Chinese is a major Sinitic language variety spoken primarily in Hunan province and surrounding regions in south-central China.
  • 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: Old Chinese
Triple: [Ma, originatesFrom, Old Chinese]
Generated description
Old Chinese is the earliest attested stage of the Chinese language, spoken during the Shang and Zhou dynasties and reconstructed from ancient texts and inscriptions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Old Chinese
Target entity description: Old Chinese is the earliest attested stage of the Chinese language, spoken during the Shang and Zhou dynasties and reconstructed from ancient texts and inscriptions.
  • A. Middle Chinese
    Middle Chinese is the historical stage of the Chinese language spoken during the Sui, Tang, and early Song dynasties, serving as the ancestor of many modern Chinese varieties and a key reference for historical phonology.
  • B. Classical Chinese
    Classical Chinese is the traditional written form of the Chinese language that served for centuries as the literary and scholarly standard across East Asia.
  • C. Yue Chinese
    Yue Chinese is a major branch of the Chinese language family, best known internationally through its prominent variety Cantonese spoken in southern China and among overseas Chinese communities.
  • D. Chinese language
    The Chinese language is a family of related Sinitic languages and dialects, including Mandarin, Cantonese, and others, spoken by over a billion people primarily in China and across Chinese-speaking communities worldwide.
  • E. Xiang Chinese
    Xiang Chinese is a major Sinitic language variety spoken primarily in Hunan province and surrounding regions in south-central China.
  • 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_69a885e9b0ac819093a9806ad0efc82c completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a9080175588190bb3b1d4b17966f2f completed March 5, 2026, 4:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad2951c1ec8190b7ac04cd820a2bfa completed March 8, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad2d3e2b388190a73f2604d97bb4aa completed March 8, 2026, 8:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad2df61a70819094148563f924a5c5 completed March 8, 2026, 8:06 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:26 p.m.