Triple

T3826742
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chinese American cinema E88707 entity
Predicate notableActor P7010 FINISHED
Object James Shigeta
James Shigeta was a pioneering Japanese American actor and singer best known for his leading roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and his groundbreaking presence as an Asian American romantic lead.
E459977 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: James Shigeta | Statement: [Chinese American cinema, notableActor, James Shigeta]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Shigeta
Context triple: [Chinese American cinema, notableActor, James Shigeta]
  • A. Ray Yoshida
    Ray Yoshida was an influential American painter and educator associated with the Chicago Imagists, known for his collage-like compositions and his long teaching career shaping generations of artists.
  • B. George T. Masuda
    George T. Masuda was a bishop who served as the ecclesiastical leader of the Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota.
  • C. Michael Shiosaki
    Michael Shiosaki is an American parks and recreation professional who is publicly known as the husband of former Seattle mayor Ed Murray.
  • D. Hiro Yamamoto
    Hiro Yamamoto is an American bassist best known as a founding member of the Seattle grunge band Soundgarden.
  • E. Raymond Moriyama
    Raymond Moriyama was a prominent Canadian architect renowned for his innovative, human-centered designs on major public and cultural buildings.
  • 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: James Shigeta
Triple: [Chinese American cinema, notableActor, James Shigeta]
Generated description
James Shigeta was a pioneering Japanese American actor and singer best known for his leading roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and his groundbreaking presence as an Asian American romantic lead.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Shigeta
Target entity description: James Shigeta was a pioneering Japanese American actor and singer best known for his leading roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and his groundbreaking presence as an Asian American romantic lead.
  • A. Ray Yoshida
    Ray Yoshida was an influential American painter and educator associated with the Chicago Imagists, known for his collage-like compositions and his long teaching career shaping generations of artists.
  • B. George T. Masuda
    George T. Masuda was a bishop who served as the ecclesiastical leader of the Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota.
  • C. Michael Shiosaki
    Michael Shiosaki is an American parks and recreation professional who is publicly known as the husband of former Seattle mayor Ed Murray.
  • D. Hiro Yamamoto
    Hiro Yamamoto is an American bassist best known as a founding member of the Seattle grunge band Soundgarden.
  • E. Raymond Moriyama
    Raymond Moriyama was a prominent Canadian architect renowned for his innovative, human-centered designs on major public and cultural buildings.
  • 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_69aed9538cf881909d9ce8ca4ac7c18c completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeeb64c72c8190b5f3d376aa4ee933 completed March 9, 2026, 3:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be031d16a08190b84524b7153f7f85 completed March 21, 2026, 2:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be040a8b248190b31ac61e5b2eb1ac completed March 21, 2026, 2:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be04c76d908190becee3d88aa0e1a0 completed March 21, 2026, 2:39 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:17 p.m.