Triple

T3796297
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Empress Dowager Cixi E89777 entity
Predicate title P38 FINISHED
Object Grand Empress Dowager
The Grand Empress Dowager was the supreme matriarchal figure in the late Qing imperial court, wielding ultimate ceremonial precedence and often decisive political influence over the emperor and state affairs.
E433888 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: Grand Empress Dowager | Statement: [Empress Dowager Cixi, title, Grand Empress Dowager]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Grand Empress Dowager
Context triple: [Empress Dowager Cixi, title, Grand Empress Dowager]
  • A. Empress Wan
    Empress Wan was a powerful and controversial consort of the Ming dynasty’s Chenghua Emperor, known for her significant influence at court and her unusually long tenure as his favored partner.
  • B. Empress Dowager Xiaojing
    Empress Dowager Xiaojing was a Ming dynasty imperial consort who, as the mother of the Tianqi Emperor, held the influential position of empress dowager during his reign.
  • C. Empress Dowager Xiaoding
    Empress Dowager Xiaoding was a Ming dynasty imperial consort who became empress dowager as the mother of the Wanli Emperor and a significant matriarchal figure at the late Ming court.
  • D. Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang
    Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang was a prominent Qing dynasty matriarch and political figure who played a key role in consolidating imperial power during the early reigns of Hong Taiji and the Shunzhi and Kangxi emperors.
  • E. Empress Dowager Jiang
    Empress Dowager Jiang was a Ming dynasty imperial consort who, as the mother of the Jiajing Emperor, held the influential title of empress dowager during his reign.
  • 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: Grand Empress Dowager
Triple: [Empress Dowager Cixi, title, Grand Empress Dowager]
Generated description
The Grand Empress Dowager was the supreme matriarchal figure in the late Qing imperial court, wielding ultimate ceremonial precedence and often decisive political influence over the emperor and state affairs.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Grand Empress Dowager
Target entity description: The Grand Empress Dowager was the supreme matriarchal figure in the late Qing imperial court, wielding ultimate ceremonial precedence and often decisive political influence over the emperor and state affairs.
  • A. Empress Wan
    Empress Wan was a powerful and controversial consort of the Ming dynasty’s Chenghua Emperor, known for her significant influence at court and her unusually long tenure as his favored partner.
  • B. Empress Dowager Xiaojing
    Empress Dowager Xiaojing was a Ming dynasty imperial consort who, as the mother of the Tianqi Emperor, held the influential position of empress dowager during his reign.
  • C. Empress Dowager Xiaoding
    Empress Dowager Xiaoding was a Ming dynasty imperial consort who became empress dowager as the mother of the Wanli Emperor and a significant matriarchal figure at the late Ming court.
  • D. Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang
    Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang was a prominent Qing dynasty matriarch and political figure who played a key role in consolidating imperial power during the early reigns of Hong Taiji and the Shunzhi and Kangxi emperors.
  • E. Empress Dowager Jiang
    Empress Dowager Jiang was a Ming dynasty imperial consort who, as the mother of the Jiajing Emperor, held the influential title of empress dowager during his reign.
  • 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_69aed9597d6881909b6ee3b9de859223 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aee79f09bc8190b7514a11a030eba5 completed March 9, 2026, 3:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5db641e608190b9d5b190468c501f completed March 14, 2026, 10:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5dbff26d081909b22ab4e050bb972 completed March 14, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5dfad9f688190b74ddb2ab4c72496 completed March 14, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:15 p.m.