Triple

T3604180
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British concession in Hankow E76329 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object Yangtze River treaty port system
The Yangtze River treaty port system was a network of semi-colonial ports along China’s Yangtze River opened to foreign powers by unequal treaties in the 19th and early 20th centuries, facilitating foreign trade, extraterritorial rights, and imperialist influence deep into the Chinese interior.
E371407 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: Yangtze River treaty port system | Statement: [British concession in Hankow, partOf, Yangtze River treaty port system]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yangtze River treaty port system
Context triple: [British concession in Hankow, partOf, Yangtze River treaty port system]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • 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. 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.
  • 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: Yangtze River treaty port system
Triple: [British concession in Hankow, partOf, Yangtze River treaty port system]
Generated description
The Yangtze River treaty port system was a network of semi-colonial ports along China’s Yangtze River opened to foreign powers by unequal treaties in the 19th and early 20th centuries, facilitating foreign trade, extraterritorial rights, and imperialist influence deep into the Chinese interior.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yangtze River treaty port system
Target entity description: The Yangtze River treaty port system was a network of semi-colonial ports along China’s Yangtze River opened to foreign powers by unequal treaties in the 19th and early 20th centuries, facilitating foreign trade, extraterritorial rights, and imperialist influence deep into the Chinese interior.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • 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. 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.
  • 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_69ad85d93dcc819094fba90cf70f4996 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc1e07bc481908d9fce18d36d8e0d completed March 8, 2026, 6:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b40320a0308190b2f358fe1488ed98 completed March 13, 2026, 12:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4041bc85c8190948b7e47aef0e0d0 completed March 13, 2026, 12:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b408778220819086935bfa9c0dd4fd completed March 13, 2026, 12:52 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:22 p.m.