Triple

T17237312
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lafcadio Hearn E418396 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life is a 1896 collection of essays by Lafcadio Hearn that explores Japanese culture, psychology, and spirituality from an intimate, reflective perspective.
E1257999 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: Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life | Statement: [Lafcadio Hearn, notableWork, Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
Context triple: [Lafcadio Hearn, notableWork, Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life]
  • A. 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.
  • B. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
    The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is a landmark 1946 anthropological study that analyzes Japanese culture and social structure, especially concepts of honor, obligation, and shame, from an American perspective during World War II.
  • C. Yoshida Kenkō’s Essays in Idleness
    Yoshida Kenkō’s Essays in Idleness is a classic 14th-century Japanese collection of reflective and aphoristic essays that meditate on impermanence, aesthetics, and the fleeting nature of human life.
  • D. The Soul of the Far East
    The Soul of the Far East is an 1888 book by American astronomer and writer Percival Lowell that offers a reflective, often romanticized study of East Asian culture and psychology, especially that of Japan.
  • E. Jūjūshinron
    Jūjūshinron is a foundational Buddhist treatise that systematically outlines the progressive stages of mental and spiritual development on the path to enlightenment.
  • 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: Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
Triple: [Lafcadio Hearn, notableWork, Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life]
Generated description
Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life is a 1896 collection of essays by Lafcadio Hearn that explores Japanese culture, psychology, and spirituality from an intimate, reflective perspective.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
Target entity description: Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life is a 1896 collection of essays by Lafcadio Hearn that explores Japanese culture, psychology, and spirituality from an intimate, reflective perspective.
  • A. 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.
  • B. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
    The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is a landmark 1946 anthropological study that analyzes Japanese culture and social structure, especially concepts of honor, obligation, and shame, from an American perspective during World War II.
  • C. Yoshida Kenkō’s Essays in Idleness
    Yoshida Kenkō’s Essays in Idleness is a classic 14th-century Japanese collection of reflective and aphoristic essays that meditate on impermanence, aesthetics, and the fleeting nature of human life.
  • D. The Soul of the Far East
    The Soul of the Far East is an 1888 book by American astronomer and writer Percival Lowell that offers a reflective, often romanticized study of East Asian culture and psychology, especially that of Japan.
  • E. Jūjūshinron
    Jūjūshinron is a foundational Buddhist treatise that systematically outlines the progressive stages of mental and spiritual development on the path to enlightenment.
  • 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.