Triple

T15900990
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tokugawa Yoshinobu E385586 entity
Predicate houseName P41017 FINISHED
Object Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa house
The Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa house is a prominent branch of Japan’s Tokugawa clan from which the last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, descended.
 E1182996 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: Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa house | Statement: [Tokugawa Yoshinobu, houseName, Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa house]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa house
Context triple: [Tokugawa Yoshinobu, houseName, Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa house]
  • A. Akishino-no-miya household
    The Akishino-no-miya household is a branch of Japan’s Imperial Family headed by Prince Akishino, encompassing his immediate family and their official duties and residences.
  • B. Mikasa-no-miya household
    The Mikasa-no-miya household is a collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family established by Prince Mikasa and his descendants.
  • C. Iwakura family
    The Iwakura family is a prominent Japanese kuge (court noble) lineage best known for producing Iwakura Tomomi, a key statesman in the Meiji Restoration.
  • D. Higashikuni-no-miya house
    The Higashikuni-no-miya house was a collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family, established for a prince of imperial blood and notable for its close ties to the main imperial line.
  • E. House of Fushimi-no-miya
    The House of Fushimi-no-miya was one of the four shinnōke branches of Japan’s imperial family, established to provide potential heirs to the Chrysanthemum Throne.
  • 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: Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa house
Triple: [Tokugawa Yoshinobu, houseName, Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa house]
Generated description
The Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa house is a prominent branch of Japan’s Tokugawa clan from which the last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, descended.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa house
Target entity description: The Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa house is a prominent branch of Japan’s Tokugawa clan from which the last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, descended.
  • A. Akishino-no-miya household
    The Akishino-no-miya household is a branch of Japan’s Imperial Family headed by Prince Akishino, encompassing his immediate family and their official duties and residences.
  • B. Mikasa-no-miya household
    The Mikasa-no-miya household is a collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family established by Prince Mikasa and his descendants.
  • C. Iwakura family
    The Iwakura family is a prominent Japanese kuge (court noble) lineage best known for producing Iwakura Tomomi, a key statesman in the Meiji Restoration.
  • D. Higashikuni-no-miya house
    The Higashikuni-no-miya house was a collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family, established for a prince of imperial blood and notable for its close ties to the main imperial line.
  • E. House of Fushimi-no-miya
    The House of Fushimi-no-miya was one of the four shinnōke branches of Japan’s imperial family, established to provide potential heirs to the Chrysanthemum Throne.
  • 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_69d86da5b800819083a31be937d738b0 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e1563cd2f081909404d724ecc8785a completed April 16, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffb04f3ea08190b5581768770677e8 completed May 9, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffb13fdb6c819091c3ee5c1f199031 completed May 9, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffb208aef881909b3a00e0015c27df completed May 9, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:51 a.m.