Triple

T1653430
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ming dynasty E35743 entity
Predicate notablePerson P304 FINISHED
Object Zheng He
Zheng He was a famed 15th-century Chinese admiral and explorer who led vast maritime expeditions across the Indian Ocean during the Ming dynasty.
E186741 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: Zheng He | Statement: [Ming dynasty, notablePerson, Zheng He]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zheng He
Context triple: [Ming dynasty, notablePerson, Zheng He]
  • A. Marco Polo
    Marco Polo was a 13th-century Venetian merchant and explorer whose travels across Asia and detailed accounts of the Mongol Empire profoundly influenced European knowledge of the East.
  • B. Francisco da Gama
    Francisco da Gama is a central fictional figure in Salman Rushdie’s novel "The Moor’s Last Sigh," belonging to the eccentric, multi-generational da Gama family whose fortunes and conflicts drive much of the story’s plot.
  • C. Vasco da Gama
    Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese navigator who pioneered the sea route from Europe to India, becoming one of the most significant explorers of the Age of Exploration.
  • D. Ferdinand Magellan
    Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe, significantly advancing European knowledge of world geography.
  • E. Diogo Cão
    Diogo Cão was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator and explorer known for pioneering voyages along the west coast of Africa during the Age of Discovery.
  • 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: Zheng He
Triple: [Ming dynasty, notablePerson, Zheng He]
Generated description
Zheng He was a famed 15th-century Chinese admiral and explorer who led vast maritime expeditions across the Indian Ocean during the Ming dynasty.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zheng He
Target entity description: Zheng He was a famed 15th-century Chinese admiral and explorer who led vast maritime expeditions across the Indian Ocean during the Ming dynasty.
  • A. Marco Polo
    Marco Polo was a 13th-century Venetian merchant and explorer whose travels across Asia and detailed accounts of the Mongol Empire profoundly influenced European knowledge of the East.
  • B. Francisco da Gama
    Francisco da Gama is a central fictional figure in Salman Rushdie’s novel "The Moor’s Last Sigh," belonging to the eccentric, multi-generational da Gama family whose fortunes and conflicts drive much of the story’s plot.
  • C. Vasco da Gama
    Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese navigator who pioneered the sea route from Europe to India, becoming one of the most significant explorers of the Age of Exploration.
  • D. Ferdinand Magellan
    Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe, significantly advancing European knowledge of world geography.
  • E. Diogo Cão
    Diogo Cão was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator and explorer known for pioneering voyages along the west coast of Africa during the Age of Discovery.
  • 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_69a8860568888190a32cd9f70acbba42 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90a8a080c8190b6913d6830d74526 completed March 5, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad60ac133881909222b25029096407 completed March 8, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad613d218081909e3ed7e74dcf82fc completed March 8, 2026, 11:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad61b178148190a088495eb599c9cb completed March 8, 2026, 11:46 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.