Triple

T1771447
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nomonhan Incident E38882 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Michitarō Komatsubara
Michitarō Komatsubara was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading Japanese forces in the 1939 border conflict with the Soviet Union at Nomonhan (Khalkhin Gol).
E393883 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: Michitarō Komatsubara | Statement: [Nomonhan Incident, commander, Michitarō Komatsubara]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michitarō Komatsubara
Context triple: [Nomonhan Incident, commander, Michitarō Komatsubara]
  • A. Gisiro Maruyama
    Gisiro Maruyama was a Japanese mathematician known for his foundational contributions to the theory and numerical analysis of stochastic differential equations.
  • B. Otozō Yamada
    Otozō Yamada was a Japanese general who commanded the Kwantung Army in Manchuria during the final stages of World War II, including the Soviet–Japanese War of 1945.
  • C. Masaru Ibuka
    Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Sony Corporation and a pioneer of Japan’s postwar consumer electronics industry.
  • D. Minoru Ōta
    Minoru Ōta was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the defense of the Oroku Peninsula during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II and became known for his final message praising the Okinawan people.
  • E. Jun-ichi Nishizawa
    Jun-ichi Nishizawa was a pioneering Japanese engineer and physicist often called the "father of Japanese microelectronics" for his foundational contributions to semiconductor and optoelectronic device technology.
  • 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: Michitarō Komatsubara
Triple: [Nomonhan Incident, commander, Michitarō Komatsubara]
Generated description
Michitarō Komatsubara was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading Japanese forces in the 1939 border conflict with the Soviet Union at Nomonhan (Khalkhin Gol).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michitarō Komatsubara
Target entity description: Michitarō Komatsubara was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading Japanese forces in the 1939 border conflict with the Soviet Union at Nomonhan (Khalkhin Gol).
  • A. Gisiro Maruyama
    Gisiro Maruyama was a Japanese mathematician known for his foundational contributions to the theory and numerical analysis of stochastic differential equations.
  • B. Otozō Yamada
    Otozō Yamada was a Japanese general who commanded the Kwantung Army in Manchuria during the final stages of World War II, including the Soviet–Japanese War of 1945.
  • C. Masaru Ibuka
    Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Sony Corporation and a pioneer of Japan’s postwar consumer electronics industry.
  • D. Minoru Ōta
    Minoru Ōta was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the defense of the Oroku Peninsula during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II and became known for his final message praising the Okinawan people.
  • E. Jun-ichi Nishizawa
    Jun-ichi Nishizawa was a pioneering Japanese engineer and physicist often called the "father of Japanese microelectronics" for his foundational contributions to semiconductor and optoelectronic device technology.
  • 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_69a8862e61708190af97b9838cc3f5de completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa648fe908819098fd27b74b17fabb completed March 6, 2026, 5:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b503cbee8481908f31124d8bc7fe9c completed March 14, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b507f46edc8190b69206a645e0e59c completed March 14, 2026, 7:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b509622e5c8190993d9af5db1cab2a completed March 14, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:31 p.m.