Triple

T15478900
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Science and Civilisation in China E376860 entity
Predicate coAuthor P398 FINISHED
Object Wang Ling
Wang Ling was a Chinese historian of science best known for his extensive collaboration with Joseph Needham on the multi-volume work "Science and Civilisation in China."
E1159696 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: Wang Ling | Statement: [Science and Civilisation in China, coAuthor, Wang Ling]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wang Ling
Context triple: [Science and Civilisation in China, coAuthor, Wang Ling]
  • A. Zhu Houxi
    Zhu Houxi was a Ming dynasty imperial prince, known primarily as a son of the Hongzhi Emperor of China.
  • B. Li Fang-Kuei
    Li Fang-Kuei was a prominent Chinese linguist and philologist known for his influential work on the historical phonology of Chinese and other Sino-Tibetan languages.
  • C. Wang Dusit
    Wang Dusit is the Thai name for Dusit Palace, a royal residence complex in Bangkok built during the reign of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V).
  • D. Wang Zhen
    Wang Zhen was a prominent Ming dynasty military commander known for his role in the frontier wars against Mongol forces.
  • E. Wang Zhen
    Wang Zhen was a prominent Chinese Communist military commander and one of the founding Ten Marshals of the People’s Republic of 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: Wang Ling
Triple: [Science and Civilisation in China, coAuthor, Wang Ling]
Generated description
Wang Ling was a Chinese historian of science best known for his extensive collaboration with Joseph Needham on the multi-volume work "Science and Civilisation in China."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wang Ling
Target entity description: Wang Ling was a Chinese historian of science best known for his extensive collaboration with Joseph Needham on the multi-volume work "Science and Civilisation in China."
  • A. Zhu Houxi
    Zhu Houxi was a Ming dynasty imperial prince, known primarily as a son of the Hongzhi Emperor of China.
  • B. Li Fang-Kuei
    Li Fang-Kuei was a prominent Chinese linguist and philologist known for his influential work on the historical phonology of Chinese and other Sino-Tibetan languages.
  • C. Wang Dusit
    Wang Dusit is the Thai name for Dusit Palace, a royal residence complex in Bangkok built during the reign of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V).
  • D. Wang Zhen
    Wang Zhen was a prominent Chinese Communist military commander and one of the founding Ten Marshals of the People’s Republic of China.
  • E. Wang Zhen
    Wang Zhen was a prominent Ming dynasty military commander known for his role in the frontier wars against Mongol forces.
  • 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_69d85cd21dcc81908646251b1c26ea00 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e03f8a77a081909f12f13660452f4a completed April 16, 2026, 1:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff2d0b3e7881908f195701fe222371 completed May 9, 2026, 12:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff2e4010dc8190b0f81d03acf8ba41 completed May 9, 2026, 12:53 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff310c2d5c819093295c45307176ec completed May 9, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:34 a.m.