Triple

T1861302
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gotō Shinpei E34817 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object South Manchuria Railway Company
The South Manchuria Railway Company was a powerful Japanese state-backed enterprise that operated railways and administered extensive economic and colonial interests in Manchuria in the early 20th century.
 E207953 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: South Manchuria Railway Company | Statement: [Gotō Shinpei, employer, South Manchuria Railway Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: South Manchuria Railway Company
Context triple: [Gotō Shinpei, employer, South Manchuria Railway Company]
  • A. Nankai Electric Railway
    Nankai Electric Railway is a major private railway company in Japan’s Kansai region, operating key commuter and interurban lines connecting Osaka with Wakayama and Kansai International Airport.
  • B. West Japan Railway Company
    West Japan Railway Company is one of Japan’s major regional railway operators, managing extensive rail networks across western Honshu including the Kansai area.
  • C. East Japan Railway Company
    East Japan Railway Company is a major Japanese railway operator that runs an extensive network of commuter and high-speed train services across eastern Honshu, including the Tokyo metropolitan area.
  • D. Umeda Freight Line
    The Umeda Freight Line is a dedicated railway freight route in Osaka, Japan, used primarily for transporting goods through the city's rail network.
  • E. Kinki Sharyo
    Kinki Sharyo is a Japanese manufacturer specializing in the design and production of railway vehicles, including metro and light rail trains used in systems worldwide.
  • 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: South Manchuria Railway Company
Triple: [Gotō Shinpei, employer, South Manchuria Railway Company]
Generated description
The South Manchuria Railway Company was a powerful Japanese state-backed enterprise that operated railways and administered extensive economic and colonial interests in Manchuria in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: South Manchuria Railway Company
Target entity description: The South Manchuria Railway Company was a powerful Japanese state-backed enterprise that operated railways and administered extensive economic and colonial interests in Manchuria in the early 20th century.
  • A. Nankai Electric Railway
    Nankai Electric Railway is a major private railway company in Japan’s Kansai region, operating key commuter and interurban lines connecting Osaka with Wakayama and Kansai International Airport.
  • B. West Japan Railway Company
    West Japan Railway Company is one of Japan’s major regional railway operators, managing extensive rail networks across western Honshu including the Kansai area.
  • C. East Japan Railway Company
    East Japan Railway Company is a major Japanese railway operator that runs an extensive network of commuter and high-speed train services across eastern Honshu, including the Tokyo metropolitan area.
  • D. Umeda Freight Line
    The Umeda Freight Line is a dedicated railway freight route in Osaka, Japan, used primarily for transporting goods through the city's rail network.
  • E. Kinki Sharyo
    Kinki Sharyo is a Japanese manufacturer specializing in the design and production of railway vehicles, including metro and light rail trains used in systems worldwide.
  • 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_69a88600b2f88190bc09303e68ab517e completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb09caee881908efe8aa38471298c completed March 7, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69add1d026748190a507872de85c908d completed March 8, 2026, 7:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69add2729498819082f6595c57f545a8 completed March 8, 2026, 7:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69add32c32b08190be6624eefa2fa386 completed March 8, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:34 p.m.