Triple

T16731573
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Macartney Embassy of 1793 E406603 entity
Predicate documentedIn P309 FINISHED
Object Qianlong Emperor’s letter to King George III
Qianlong Emperor’s letter to King George III is a famous 1793 imperial response that firmly rejected British requests for expanded trade and diplomatic relations, exemplifying Qing China’s assertion of superiority and limited engagement with the West.
E1230237 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: Qianlong Emperor’s letter to King George III | Statement: [Macartney Embassy of 1793, documentedIn, Qianlong Emperor’s letter to King George III]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Qianlong Emperor’s letter to King George III
Context triple: [Macartney Embassy of 1793, documentedIn, Qianlong Emperor’s letter to King George III]
  • A. Principal Conclusion of the Extraordinary Imperial Delegation
    The Principal Conclusion of the Extraordinary Imperial Delegation was the 1803 imperial law of the Holy Roman Empire that secularized and reorganized its territories, effectively paving the way for the Empire’s dissolution.
  • B. Qianlong Emperor's Ten Great Campaigns
    The Qianlong Emperor's Ten Great Campaigns were a series of major 18th-century military expeditions by the Qing dynasty that expanded and consolidated imperial control over Inner Asia and other frontier regions.
  • C. Qianlong Canon
    The Qianlong Canon is an 18th-century woodblock-printed edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon commissioned by the Qing dynasty Emperor Qianlong.
  • D. British Legation in Peking
    The British Legation in Peking was the United Kingdom’s principal diplomatic mission in imperial and early republican China, overseeing British political and consular affairs in the country.
  • E. British concession in Canton
    The British concession in Canton was a foreign-controlled enclave in Guangzhou, China, established in the 19th century as part of the treaty port system that facilitated British trade and extraterritorial rights.
  • 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: Qianlong Emperor’s letter to King George III
Triple: [Macartney Embassy of 1793, documentedIn, Qianlong Emperor’s letter to King George III]
Generated description
Qianlong Emperor’s letter to King George III is a famous 1793 imperial response that firmly rejected British requests for expanded trade and diplomatic relations, exemplifying Qing China’s assertion of superiority and limited engagement with the West.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Qianlong Emperor’s letter to King George III
Target entity description: Qianlong Emperor’s letter to King George III is a famous 1793 imperial response that firmly rejected British requests for expanded trade and diplomatic relations, exemplifying Qing China’s assertion of superiority and limited engagement with the West.
  • A. Principal Conclusion of the Extraordinary Imperial Delegation
    The Principal Conclusion of the Extraordinary Imperial Delegation was the 1803 imperial law of the Holy Roman Empire that secularized and reorganized its territories, effectively paving the way for the Empire’s dissolution.
  • B. Qianlong Emperor's Ten Great Campaigns
    The Qianlong Emperor's Ten Great Campaigns were a series of major 18th-century military expeditions by the Qing dynasty that expanded and consolidated imperial control over Inner Asia and other frontier regions.
  • C. Qianlong Canon
    The Qianlong Canon is an 18th-century woodblock-printed edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon commissioned by the Qing dynasty Emperor Qianlong.
  • D. British Legation in Peking
    The British Legation in Peking was the United Kingdom’s principal diplomatic mission in imperial and early republican China, overseeing British political and consular affairs in the country.
  • E. British concession in Canton
    The British concession in Canton was a foreign-controlled enclave in Guangzhou, China, established in the 19th century as part of the treaty port system that facilitated British trade and extraterritorial rights.
  • 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_69d8838f242881908abd8bc138795886 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e39c362bb88190921fab43d76c3ee8 completed April 18, 2026, 2:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a009d4a94688190aabe56c34e8cc2c3 completed May 10, 2026, 2:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a009dd925308190a82c6ef014b37333 completed May 10, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a009e9b9874819084060408cdc44d0b completed May 10, 2026, 3:04 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:20 a.m.