Triple
T21377345
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Athanasius Kircher |
E527245
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entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | China Illustrata |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: China Illustrata | Statement: [Athanasius Kircher, notableWork, China Illustrata]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: China Illustrata Context triple: [Athanasius Kircher, notableWork, China Illustrata]
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A.
China Illustrata
chosen
China Illustrata is a 17th-century work by Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher that compiles and interprets contemporary European knowledge and reports about China’s geography, culture, history, and natural wonders.
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B.
Illustrations of China and Its People
Illustrations of China and Its People is a 19th-century photographic and written survey of China by John Thomson, documenting the country’s landscapes, people, and customs during the late Qing dynasty.
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C.
Kangxi Atlas
The Kangxi Atlas is a comprehensive cartographic survey of China and neighboring regions created during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor, notable for combining Western surveying techniques with traditional Chinese mapping.
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D.
Yongle Encyclopedia
The Yongle Encyclopedia is a vast 15th-century Chinese imperial compendium that sought to collect and preserve the entirety of known knowledge, literature, and scholarship of its time.
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E.
In China (book)
"In China" is a photographic book by renowned Magnum photographer Eve Arnold that documents her extensive travels and visual observations across China.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e0b51f363c8190944000ab5523b02b |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e8b0c8768c8190ad7cddf5cd1d06f7 |
completed | April 22, 2026, 11:28 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 5:11 p.m.