Triple

T2659217
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Billy Costigan E54685 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object Chen Yongren
Chen Yongren is the undercover police officer protagonist of the Hong Kong crime thriller "Infernal Affairs," whose character later inspired Billy Costigan in the American remake "The Departed."
 E291094 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: Chen Yongren | Statement: [Billy Costigan, basedOn, Chen Yongren]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Chen Yongren
Context triple: [Billy Costigan, basedOn, Chen Yongren]
  • A. Ye Zhengrong
    Ye Zhengrong is one of the children of the prominent Chinese military leader and politician Ye Ting.
  • B. Liu Songlin
    Liu Songlin was the wife of Mao Anqing, the second son of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong.
  • C. Zeng Liansong
    Zeng Liansong was a Chinese designer best known for creating the national flag of the People's Republic of China.
  • D. Peng Huanwu
    Peng Huanwu was a prominent Chinese theoretical physicist known for his contributions to nuclear and particle physics and for helping advance modern physics research in China.
  • E. Chang Hsueh-liang
    Chang Hsueh-liang was a prominent Chinese warlord and political figure best known for his role in the 1936 Xi'an Incident, which forced Chiang Kai-shek to form a united front with the Communists against Japan.
  • 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: Chen Yongren
Triple: [Billy Costigan, basedOn, Chen Yongren]
Generated description
Chen Yongren is the undercover police officer protagonist of the Hong Kong crime thriller "Infernal Affairs," whose character later inspired Billy Costigan in the American remake "The Departed."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Chen Yongren
Target entity description: Chen Yongren is the undercover police officer protagonist of the Hong Kong crime thriller "Infernal Affairs," whose character later inspired Billy Costigan in the American remake "The Departed."
  • A. Ye Zhengrong
    Ye Zhengrong is one of the children of the prominent Chinese military leader and politician Ye Ting.
  • B. Liu Songlin
    Liu Songlin was the wife of Mao Anqing, the second son of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong.
  • C. Zeng Liansong
    Zeng Liansong was a Chinese designer best known for creating the national flag of the People's Republic of China.
  • D. Peng Huanwu
    Peng Huanwu was a prominent Chinese theoretical physicist known for his contributions to nuclear and particle physics and for helping advance modern physics research in China.
  • E. Chang Hsueh-liang
    Chang Hsueh-liang was a prominent Chinese warlord and political figure best known for his role in the 1936 Xi'an Incident, which forced Chiang Kai-shek to form a united front with the Communists against Japan.
  • 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_69ab49e028948190b97e01d73548b1d9 completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd94dcaa48190aec625f68ce61a02 completed March 7, 2026, 7:52 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afaf4d70388190b6f0e683c77bc262 completed March 10, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afafddb2a081909b891eed7ba5411d completed March 10, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afb10304488190a1129efae36b3c4e completed March 10, 2026, 5:49 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:53 p.m.