Triple

T2320584
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Self-Strengthening Movement E51169 entity
Predicate keyFigure P256 FINISHED
Object Zuo Zongtang
Zuo Zongtang was a prominent late Qing dynasty statesman and military leader best known for his role in modernizing China’s military and suppressing major rebellions during the Self-Strengthening Movement.
E259603 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: Zuo Zongtang | Statement: [Self-Strengthening Movement, keyFigure, Zuo Zongtang]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zuo Zongtang
Context triple: [Self-Strengthening Movement, keyFigure, Zuo Zongtang]
  • A. Zeng Guofan
    Zeng Guofan was a prominent late Qing dynasty statesman, military leader, and Confucian scholar best known for organizing the Xiang Army to suppress the Taiping Rebellion and for spearheading early modernization efforts in China.
  • B. Li Hongzhang
    Li Hongzhang was a prominent late Qing dynasty statesman, diplomat, and military leader who played a key role in China's self-strengthening efforts and negotiations with foreign powers.
  • C. Sheng Xuanhuai
    Sheng Xuanhuai was a late Qing dynasty Chinese industrialist and statesman who played a key role in China's early modernization, particularly in industry, commerce, and education.
  • D. Tang Shengzhi
    Tang Shengzhi was a Chinese Nationalist general best known for his controversial leadership during the Second Sino-Japanese War, particularly in the defense and fall of Nanjing in 1937.
  • E. Teng Daiyuan
    Teng Daiyuan was a prominent Chinese Communist revolutionary and military leader who played a key role in the early development of the People's Liberation Army and the People's Republic of China.
  • 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: Zuo Zongtang
Triple: [Self-Strengthening Movement, keyFigure, Zuo Zongtang]
Generated description
Zuo Zongtang was a prominent late Qing dynasty statesman and military leader best known for his role in modernizing China’s military and suppressing major rebellions during the Self-Strengthening Movement.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zuo Zongtang
Target entity description: Zuo Zongtang was a prominent late Qing dynasty statesman and military leader best known for his role in modernizing China’s military and suppressing major rebellions during the Self-Strengthening Movement.
  • A. Zeng Guofan
    Zeng Guofan was a prominent late Qing dynasty statesman, military leader, and Confucian scholar best known for organizing the Xiang Army to suppress the Taiping Rebellion and for spearheading early modernization efforts in China.
  • B. Li Hongzhang
    Li Hongzhang was a prominent late Qing dynasty statesman, diplomat, and military leader who played a key role in China's self-strengthening efforts and negotiations with foreign powers.
  • C. Sheng Xuanhuai
    Sheng Xuanhuai was a late Qing dynasty Chinese industrialist and statesman who played a key role in China's early modernization, particularly in industry, commerce, and education.
  • D. Tang Shengzhi
    Tang Shengzhi was a Chinese Nationalist general best known for his controversial leadership during the Second Sino-Japanese War, particularly in the defense and fall of Nanjing in 1937.
  • E. Teng Daiyuan
    Teng Daiyuan was a prominent Chinese Communist revolutionary and military leader who played a key role in the early development of the People's Liberation Army and the People's Republic of China.
  • 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_69a88b074b908190ae983dbca7757d88 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc632474c8190972b4611a3a4ff8f completed March 7, 2026, 6:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aea87427f08190b8353f74c5231a32 completed March 9, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aea988feec8190a8f5d79cffbc14f6 completed March 9, 2026, 11:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aea9d6b60c819083295d66f965ff33 completed March 9, 2026, 11:07 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:49 p.m.