Triple

T15650361
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bansho Shirabesho E376294 entity
Predicate hasAlternativeName P39 FINISHED
Object Institute for the Investigation of Barbarian Books
The Institute for the Investigation of Barbarian Books was a late Edo-period Japanese government office that studied and translated Western (primarily Dutch and other European) texts to inform Japan’s understanding of foreign science, technology, and politics.
E1169667 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: Institute for the Investigation of Barbarian Books | Statement: [Bansho Shirabesho, hasAlternativeName, Institute for the Investigation of Barbarian Books]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Institute for the Investigation of Barbarian Books
Context triple: [Bansho Shirabesho, hasAlternativeName, Institute for the Investigation of Barbarian Books]
  • A. Bibliotheca
    Bibliotheca is an ancient Greek mythographical handbook traditionally attributed to Apollodorus that compiles and summarizes a wide range of Greek myths and heroic legends.
  • B. La Schola
    La Schola is a small island located within the Stagnone Lagoon off the western coast of Sicily, Italy.
  • C. Codex Cumanicus
    Codex Cumanicus is a late 13th–early 14th century multilingual manuscript that serves as a key linguistic and cultural source on the Cuman (Kipchak Turkic) language and its use in medieval Eurasia.
  • D. Codex Euricianus
    The Codex Euricianus is one of the earliest known Germanic law codes, issued by the Visigothic king Euric in the late 5th century to regulate relations between Goths and Romans.
  • E. Academy of the Bran
    The Academy of the Bran is the English rendering of "Accademia della Crusca," Italy’s historic language academy renowned for regulating and preserving the Italian language.
  • 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: Institute for the Investigation of Barbarian Books
Triple: [Bansho Shirabesho, hasAlternativeName, Institute for the Investigation of Barbarian Books]
Generated description
The Institute for the Investigation of Barbarian Books was a late Edo-period Japanese government office that studied and translated Western (primarily Dutch and other European) texts to inform Japan’s understanding of foreign science, technology, and politics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Institute for the Investigation of Barbarian Books
Target entity description: The Institute for the Investigation of Barbarian Books was a late Edo-period Japanese government office that studied and translated Western (primarily Dutch and other European) texts to inform Japan’s understanding of foreign science, technology, and politics.
  • A. Bibliotheca
    Bibliotheca is an ancient Greek mythographical handbook traditionally attributed to Apollodorus that compiles and summarizes a wide range of Greek myths and heroic legends.
  • B. La Schola
    La Schola is a small island located within the Stagnone Lagoon off the western coast of Sicily, Italy.
  • C. Codex Cumanicus
    Codex Cumanicus is a late 13th–early 14th century multilingual manuscript that serves as a key linguistic and cultural source on the Cuman (Kipchak Turkic) language and its use in medieval Eurasia.
  • D. Codex Euricianus
    The Codex Euricianus is one of the earliest known Germanic law codes, issued by the Visigothic king Euric in the late 5th century to regulate relations between Goths and Romans.
  • E. Academy of the Bran
    The Academy of the Bran is the English rendering of "Accademia della Crusca," Italy’s historic language academy renowned for regulating and preserving the Italian language.
  • 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_69d85cd1564c8190991adda63bfab4b0 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04eeed2d48190a7a8a618d90012d0 completed April 16, 2026, 2:52 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff67957ebc8190b187f557bd01d58d completed May 9, 2026, 4:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff68af38848190975e374b2c8c917b completed May 9, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff69660b6c819082dbdf06db1c8fe3 completed May 9, 2026, 5:05 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:15 a.m.