Triple

T3788132
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Xiongnu E85577 entity
Predicate conflict P12 FINISHED
Object Qin–Xiongnu conflicts
The Qin–Xiongnu conflicts were a series of early frontier wars between China’s Qin dynasty and the nomadic Xiongnu that helped shape the Great Wall’s construction and the long-term Han–Xiongnu rivalry.
E389710 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: Qin–Xiongnu conflicts | Statement: [Xiongnu, conflict, Qin–Xiongnu conflicts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Qin–Xiongnu conflicts
Context triple: [Xiongnu, conflict, Qin–Xiongnu conflicts]
  • A. Han–Xiongnu War
    The Han–Xiongnu War was a protracted series of military campaigns in the 2nd–1st centuries BCE in which China’s Han dynasty sought to break the power of the nomadic Xiongnu confederation and secure its northern frontiers.
  • B. Ming–Mongol border conflicts
    The Ming–Mongol border conflicts were a series of protracted military clashes and raids between the Ming dynasty of China and the Mongol Northern Yuan regime along their northern frontier from the late 14th to the 16th century.
  • C. Great Wall War
    The Great Wall War was a 1933 military conflict between the Republic of China and Imperial Japan fought along the Great Wall region of northern China, marking a key early stage of Japanese expansion before the full-scale Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • D. Chu–Han Contention
    The Chu–Han Contention was a civil war (206–202 BCE) between the Chu and Han states that led to the founding of China’s Han dynasty.
  • E. Lamian War
    The Lamian War was a conflict (323–322 BCE) in which a coalition of Greek city-states, led by Athens, unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow Macedonian hegemony following the death of Alexander the Great.
  • 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: Qin–Xiongnu conflicts
Triple: [Xiongnu, conflict, Qin–Xiongnu conflicts]
Generated description
The Qin–Xiongnu conflicts were a series of early frontier wars between China’s Qin dynasty and the nomadic Xiongnu that helped shape the Great Wall’s construction and the long-term Han–Xiongnu rivalry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Qin–Xiongnu conflicts
Target entity description: The Qin–Xiongnu conflicts were a series of early frontier wars between China’s Qin dynasty and the nomadic Xiongnu that helped shape the Great Wall’s construction and the long-term Han–Xiongnu rivalry.
  • A. Han–Xiongnu War
    The Han–Xiongnu War was a protracted series of military campaigns in the 2nd–1st centuries BCE in which China’s Han dynasty sought to break the power of the nomadic Xiongnu confederation and secure its northern frontiers.
  • B. Ming–Mongol border conflicts
    The Ming–Mongol border conflicts were a series of protracted military clashes and raids between the Ming dynasty of China and the Mongol Northern Yuan regime along their northern frontier from the late 14th to the 16th century.
  • C. Great Wall War
    The Great Wall War was a 1933 military conflict between the Republic of China and Imperial Japan fought along the Great Wall region of northern China, marking a key early stage of Japanese expansion before the full-scale Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • D. Chu–Han Contention
    The Chu–Han Contention was a civil war (206–202 BCE) between the Chu and Han states that led to the founding of China’s Han dynasty.
  • E. Lamian War
    The Lamian War was a conflict (323–322 BCE) in which a coalition of Greek city-states, led by Athens, unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow Macedonian hegemony following the death of Alexander the Great.
  • 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_69aed937fa8881908208ef3801060826 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aee42f4dd08190be10d0113aab4249 completed March 9, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4fb1c90648190a76cee07508a83b9 completed March 14, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4fbacc8dc8190bb7e4a14e2d2f504 completed March 14, 2026, 6:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4fc1f679881908e63b22d910c532b completed March 14, 2026, 6:11 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:13 p.m.