Triple

T17237310
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lafcadio Hearn E418396 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a collection of essays by Lafcadio Hearn that vividly portrays Meiji-era Japanese culture, customs, and everyday life for Western readers.
E1257997 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: Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan | Statement: [Lafcadio Hearn, notableWork, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
Context triple: [Lafcadio Hearn, notableWork, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan]
  • A. Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan
    "Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan" is a travelogue by American astronomer and writer Percival Lowell that chronicles his journey through the remote Noto Peninsula, offering detailed observations of Meiji-era Japanese culture and landscape.
  • B. A Day in the Life of Japan
    A Day in the Life of Japan is a large-scale photographic book project capturing a single day across Japan through images taken simultaneously by numerous photographers, conceived and produced by photojournalist Rick Smolan.
  • C. The Spirit of Japanese Art
    "The Spirit of Japanese Art" is a critical and interpretive work by poet and critic Yone Noguchi that explores the aesthetics, philosophy, and cultural significance of traditional Japanese art for a largely Western readership.
  • D. 100 Landscapes of Japan
    100 Landscapes of Japan is a curated list of notable Japanese scenic sites selected for their outstanding natural beauty, cultural significance, and representative landscapes of the country.
  • E. Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World
    Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World is a collection of essays by historian John W. Dower that examines Japan’s modern history, memory, and postwar transformation in a global context.
  • 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: Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
Triple: [Lafcadio Hearn, notableWork, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan]
Generated description
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a collection of essays by Lafcadio Hearn that vividly portrays Meiji-era Japanese culture, customs, and everyday life for Western readers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
Target entity description: Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a collection of essays by Lafcadio Hearn that vividly portrays Meiji-era Japanese culture, customs, and everyday life for Western readers.
  • A. Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan
    "Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan" is a travelogue by American astronomer and writer Percival Lowell that chronicles his journey through the remote Noto Peninsula, offering detailed observations of Meiji-era Japanese culture and landscape.
  • B. A Day in the Life of Japan
    A Day in the Life of Japan is a large-scale photographic book project capturing a single day across Japan through images taken simultaneously by numerous photographers, conceived and produced by photojournalist Rick Smolan.
  • C. The Spirit of Japanese Art
    "The Spirit of Japanese Art" is a critical and interpretive work by poet and critic Yone Noguchi that explores the aesthetics, philosophy, and cultural significance of traditional Japanese art for a largely Western readership.
  • D. 100 Landscapes of Japan
    100 Landscapes of Japan is a curated list of notable Japanese scenic sites selected for their outstanding natural beauty, cultural significance, and representative landscapes of the country.
  • E. Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World
    Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World is a collection of essays by historian John W. Dower that examines Japan’s modern history, memory, and postwar transformation in a global context.
  • 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_69d886d8e96081909870bff6c3d0bf09 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e42dfcf2608190b6935b79ea2ae946 completed April 19, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01676596a48190ae17a411b86e613e completed May 11, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0168a45fc881908540d142db1ed1e9 completed May 11, 2026, 5:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01692c44c881908cd986ad6cf10596 completed May 11, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:39 a.m.