Triple

T16934931
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Yang clan E410804 entity
Predicate usesChineseSurname P124303 FINISHED
Object
杨 is a common Chinese surname with ancient origins and many notable historical and contemporary bearers.
E1240834 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: 杨 | Statement: [Yang clan, usesChineseSurname, 杨]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 杨
Context triple: [Yang clan, usesChineseSurname, 杨]
  • A.
    詹 is a Chinese surname and character commonly romanized as "Chan" in Cantonese.
  • B.
    林 is a common Chinese character and surname meaning “forest,” composed of two “tree” radicals and widely used across East Asian languages.
  • C.
    晏 is a Chinese surname and given name character that historically conveys meanings related to tranquility, serenity, and peacefulness.
  • D. Du Feng
    Du Feng is a former Chinese professional basketball player and current coach best known for his long-time success with the Guangdong Southern Tigers in the Chinese Basketball Association.
  • E. Yu Yishang
    Yu Yishang was one of the principal wives of Yuan Shikai, the early 20th-century Chinese military strongman and short-lived emperor of China.
  • 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: 杨
Triple: [Yang clan, usesChineseSurname, 杨]
Generated description
杨 is a common Chinese surname with ancient origins and many notable historical and contemporary bearers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 杨
Target entity description: 杨 is a common Chinese surname with ancient origins and many notable historical and contemporary bearers.
  • A.
    詹 is a Chinese surname and character commonly romanized as "Chan" in Cantonese.
  • B.
    林 is a common Chinese character and surname meaning “forest,” composed of two “tree” radicals and widely used across East Asian languages.
  • C.
    晏 is a Chinese surname and given name character that historically conveys meanings related to tranquility, serenity, and peacefulness.
  • D. Du Feng
    Du Feng is a former Chinese professional basketball player and current coach best known for his long-time success with the Guangdong Southern Tigers in the Chinese Basketball Association.
  • E. Yu Yishang
    Yu Yishang was one of the principal wives of Yuan Shikai, the early 20th-century Chinese military strongman and short-lived emperor of China.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: usesChineseSurname
Context triple: [Yang clan, usesChineseSurname, 杨]
  • A. correspondsToChineseSurname chosen
    Indicates that one entity is the Chinese surname equivalent or counterpart of another entity.
  • B. usedChineseCharacters
    Indicates that one entity employed or wrote using Chinese characters in relation to another entity or context.
  • C. fullNameInChineseGivenName
    Indicates that the entity’s full name, when written in Chinese, is ordered with the given name first.
  • D. ChineseNameSimplified
    Indicates that an entity’s name is given in simplified Chinese characters.
  • E. ChineseNameTraditional
    Indicates that an entity’s name is given in traditional Chinese characters.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69d886c886688190967be07322597ac9 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3cf2899608190a6bacdce9d4ceb84 completed April 18, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00cfe2d4f48190b965b6c0a3cc0125 completed May 10, 2026, 6:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00d067a6348190bdce8ae810d02741 completed May 10, 2026, 6:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00d1366f4c8190b5627f67402d96a0 completed May 10, 2026, 6:40 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69e32b982f548190b08414d55810de19 completed April 18, 2026, 6:58 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:30 a.m.