Triple

T2144663
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Imperial German Navy E47035 entity
Predicate overseasBase P646 FINISHED
Object Kiautschou Bay concession
The Kiautschou Bay concession was a German colonial leasehold in China centered on the port of Qingdao, serving as a strategic naval base and commercial hub for the German Empire from 1898 to 1914.
E236954 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: Kiautschou Bay concession | Statement: [Imperial German Navy, overseasBase, Kiautschou Bay concession]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kiautschou Bay concession
Context triple: [Imperial German Navy, overseasBase, Kiautschou Bay concession]
  • A. British concession in Amoy
    The British concession in Amoy was a 19th- and early 20th-century foreign-controlled enclave in the Chinese port city of Xiamen, established after the Opium Wars as part of Britain’s treaty port system.
  • B. British concession in Canton
    The British concession in Canton was a foreign-controlled enclave in Guangzhou, China, established in the 19th century as part of the treaty port system that facilitated British trade and extraterritorial rights.
  • C. Treaty of Tientsin
    The Treaty of Tientsin was an 1858 agreement that forced Qing China to grant Western powers expanded trade rights, legal privileges, and the opening of additional ports, significantly increasing foreign influence in China.
  • D. Convention of Peking
    The Convention of Peking was an 1860 series of unequal treaties between Qing China and Western powers that concluded the Second Opium War and ceded territory and major concessions to Britain, France, and Russia.
  • E. British concession in Hankow
    The British concession in Hankow was a foreign-controlled enclave in Wuhan, China, established in the late 19th century that served as a major hub for British trade and influence along the Yangtze River.
  • 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: Kiautschou Bay concession
Triple: [Imperial German Navy, overseasBase, Kiautschou Bay concession]
Generated description
The Kiautschou Bay concession was a German colonial leasehold in China centered on the port of Qingdao, serving as a strategic naval base and commercial hub for the German Empire from 1898 to 1914.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kiautschou Bay concession
Target entity description: The Kiautschou Bay concession was a German colonial leasehold in China centered on the port of Qingdao, serving as a strategic naval base and commercial hub for the German Empire from 1898 to 1914.
  • A. British concession in Amoy
    The British concession in Amoy was a 19th- and early 20th-century foreign-controlled enclave in the Chinese port city of Xiamen, established after the Opium Wars as part of Britain’s treaty port system.
  • B. British concession in Canton
    The British concession in Canton was a foreign-controlled enclave in Guangzhou, China, established in the 19th century as part of the treaty port system that facilitated British trade and extraterritorial rights.
  • C. Treaty of Tientsin
    The Treaty of Tientsin was an 1858 agreement that forced Qing China to grant Western powers expanded trade rights, legal privileges, and the opening of additional ports, significantly increasing foreign influence in China.
  • D. Convention of Peking
    The Convention of Peking was an 1860 series of unequal treaties between Qing China and Western powers that concluded the Second Opium War and ceded territory and major concessions to Britain, France, and Russia.
  • E. British concession in Hankow
    The British concession in Hankow was a foreign-controlled enclave in Wuhan, China, established in the late 19th century that served as a major hub for British trade and influence along the Yangtze River.
  • 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_69a88a1933e0819094f18426ed74180f completed March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc5af20808190902031d8c0bba376 completed March 7, 2026, 6:29 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae51b8152c81908c66d389bf14dc7e completed March 9, 2026, 4:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae522f0394819087a7e7d9c6ca354c completed March 9, 2026, 4:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae5316acf881908dde9d83c36c8fd0 completed March 9, 2026, 4:56 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:44 p.m.