Triple

T16274242
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shirō Ishii E395082 entity
Predicate memberOf P10 FINISHED
Object Imperial Japanese Army Medical Corps
The Imperial Japanese Army Medical Corps was the military medical branch of Japan’s Imperial Army, notorious for its involvement in human experimentation and biological warfare programs before and during World War II.
E85368 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: Imperial Japanese Army Medical Corps | Statement: [Shirō Ishii, memberOf, Imperial Japanese Army Medical Corps]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Imperial Japanese Army Medical Corps
Context triple: [Shirō Ishii, memberOf, Imperial Japanese Army Medical Corps]
  • A. Imperial Japanese Army
    The Imperial Japanese Army was the ground-based military force of the Empire of Japan, playing a central role in Japan’s expansion and major conflicts across East Asia and the Pacific during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including World War II.
  • B. Imperial Japanese Army General Staff
    The Imperial Japanese Army General Staff was the highest-level command and planning body of the Imperial Japanese Army, responsible for strategic military operations and overall war planning before and during World War II.
  • C. Unit 731
    Unit 731 was a covert Imperial Japanese military research facility in World War II notorious for conducting lethal human experimentation and developing biological weapons.
  • D. Japanese 5th Area Army
    The Japanese 5th Area Army was a World War II Imperial Japanese Army formation responsible for the defense of Japan’s northern territories, including parts of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, particularly in the war’s final stages.
  • E. Japanese 25th Army
    The Japanese 25th Army was an Imperial Japanese Army formation best known for leading the rapid conquest of Malaya and Singapore during World War II.
  • 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: Imperial Japanese Army Medical Corps
Triple: [Shirō Ishii, memberOf, Imperial Japanese Army Medical Corps]
Generated description
The Imperial Japanese Army Medical Corps was the military medical branch of Japan’s Imperial Army, notorious for its involvement in human experimentation and biological warfare programs before and during World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Imperial Japanese Army Medical Corps
Target entity description: The Imperial Japanese Army Medical Corps was the military medical branch of Japan’s Imperial Army, notorious for its involvement in human experimentation and biological warfare programs before and during World War II.
  • A. Imperial Japanese Army
    The Imperial Japanese Army was the ground-based military force of the Empire of Japan, playing a central role in Japan’s expansion and major conflicts across East Asia and the Pacific during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including World War II.
  • B. Imperial Japanese Army General Staff
    The Imperial Japanese Army General Staff was the highest-level command and planning body of the Imperial Japanese Army, responsible for strategic military operations and overall war planning before and during World War II.
  • C. Unit 731 chosen
    Unit 731 was a covert Imperial Japanese military research facility in World War II notorious for conducting lethal human experimentation and developing biological weapons.
  • D. Japanese 5th Area Army
    The Japanese 5th Area Army was a World War II Imperial Japanese Army formation responsible for the defense of Japan’s northern territories, including parts of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, particularly in the war’s final stages.
  • E. Japanese 25th Army
    The Japanese 25th Army was an Imperial Japanese Army formation best known for leading the rapid conquest of Malaya and Singapore during World War II.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d87f221d8081909b0b2063e7528ba2 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e2460c2d948190813b66e539a64a70 completed April 17, 2026, 2:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0017c0ef4c8190b44ac84f71b2ed41 completed May 10, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a001a35b43081909b44a22798b1ef1b completed May 10, 2026, 5:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a001a93530c81908cb4180d9ebe9850 completed May 10, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:05 a.m.