Triple

T16574882
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shing-Tung Yau E402683 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Yau
Yau is a Chinese surname most prominently associated with the renowned mathematician Shing-Tung Yau, known for his fundamental contributions to differential geometry and mathematical physics.
 E1221221 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: Yau | Statement: [Shing-Tung Yau, familyName, Yau]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Yau
Context triple: [Shing-Tung Yau, familyName, Yau]
  • A. Yamabe
    Yamabe was the personal name of Emperor Kanmu, a powerful Japanese emperor of the late 8th and early 9th centuries who moved the capital to Heian-kyō (Kyoto).
  • B. Yua
    Yua is a small genus of flowering plants in the grape family Vitaceae, native to parts of East Asia.
  • C. Katayun
    Katayun is a figure in Persian mythology known primarily as the mother of the legendary hero Esfandiyar in the Shahnameh.
  • D. Kashiwagi
    Kashiwagi is a character from the classic Japanese novel "The Tale of Genji," known as the biological father of Kaoru and for his complex romantic entanglements.
  • E. Fuwa
    Fuwa are the five official mascots of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, each representing a different color of the Olympic rings and elements of Chinese culture and symbolism.
  • 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: Yau
Triple: [Shing-Tung Yau, familyName, Yau]
Generated description
Yau is a Chinese surname most prominently associated with the renowned mathematician Shing-Tung Yau, known for his fundamental contributions to differential geometry and mathematical physics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Yau
Target entity description: Yau is a Chinese surname most prominently associated with the renowned mathematician Shing-Tung Yau, known for his fundamental contributions to differential geometry and mathematical physics.
  • A. Yamabe
    Yamabe was the personal name of Emperor Kanmu, a powerful Japanese emperor of the late 8th and early 9th centuries who moved the capital to Heian-kyō (Kyoto).
  • B. Yua
    Yua is a small genus of flowering plants in the grape family Vitaceae, native to parts of East Asia.
  • C. Katayun
    Katayun is a figure in Persian mythology known primarily as the mother of the legendary hero Esfandiyar in the Shahnameh.
  • D. Kashiwagi
    Kashiwagi is a character from the classic Japanese novel "The Tale of Genji," known as the biological father of Kaoru and for his complex romantic entanglements.
  • E. Fuwa
    Fuwa are the five official mascots of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, each representing a different color of the Olympic rings and elements of Chinese culture and symbolism.
  • 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_69d88387363c8190a97a0c942130de97 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3595bbbbc8190b023f4872908c031 completed April 18, 2026, 10:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a006eea409c8190808170a0b3f4bd17 completed May 10, 2026, 11:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a006f7ca0dc8190a75d84d9ffbf83e0 completed May 10, 2026, 11:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00705453c081909e8401024e92b5aa completed May 10, 2026, 11:47 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:16 a.m.