Triple
T15478902
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Science and Civilisation in China |
E376860
|
entity |
| Predicate | coAuthor |
P398
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Ho Ping-Yü
Ho Ping-Yü was a scholar who collaborated with Joseph Needham as a co-author on volumes of the influential multi-volume work *Science and Civilisation in China*.
|
E1159698
|
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: Ho Ping-Yü | Statement: [Science and Civilisation in China, coAuthor, Ho Ping-Yü]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ho Ping-Yü Context triple: [Science and Civilisation in China, coAuthor, Ho Ping-Yü]
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A.
Chen Wen-pei
Chen Wen-pei is best known as the wife of Taiwanese rock musician Wu Bai.
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B.
Tsai Chongxin
Tsai Chongxin, better known as Joe Tsai, is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire businessman and co-founder of Alibaba Group.
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C.
Chang Hsueh-liang
Chang Hsueh-liang was a prominent Chinese warlord and political figure best known for his role in the 1936 Xi'an Incident, which forced Chiang Kai-shek to form a united front with the Communists against Japan.
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D.
Hau Pei-tsun
Hau Pei-tsun was a Taiwanese military general and politician who served as Premier of the Republic of China in the early 1990s and played a key role in Taiwan’s transition from authoritarian rule to democracy.
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E.
Tsai Yuan-pei
Tsai Yuan-pei, better known as Cai Yuanpei, was a prominent Chinese educator, revolutionary, and reformer who served as president of Peking University and played a key role in modernizing Chinese education and promoting liberal thought in the early 20th century.
- 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: Ho Ping-Yü Triple: [Science and Civilisation in China, coAuthor, Ho Ping-Yü]
Generated description
Ho Ping-Yü was a scholar who collaborated with Joseph Needham as a co-author on volumes of the influential multi-volume work *Science and Civilisation in China*.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ho Ping-Yü Target entity description: Ho Ping-Yü was a scholar who collaborated with Joseph Needham as a co-author on volumes of the influential multi-volume work *Science and Civilisation in China*.
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A.
Chen Wen-pei
Chen Wen-pei is best known as the wife of Taiwanese rock musician Wu Bai.
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B.
Tsai Chongxin
Tsai Chongxin, better known as Joe Tsai, is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire businessman and co-founder of Alibaba Group.
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C.
Chang Hsueh-liang
Chang Hsueh-liang was a prominent Chinese warlord and political figure best known for his role in the 1936 Xi'an Incident, which forced Chiang Kai-shek to form a united front with the Communists against Japan.
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D.
Hau Pei-tsun
Hau Pei-tsun was a Taiwanese military general and politician who served as Premier of the Republic of China in the early 1990s and played a key role in Taiwan’s transition from authoritarian rule to democracy.
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E.
Tsai Yuan-pei
Tsai Yuan-pei, better known as Cai Yuanpei, was a prominent Chinese educator, revolutionary, and reformer who served as president of Peking University and played a key role in modernizing Chinese education and promoting liberal thought in the early 20th century.
- 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.