Triple

T3854108
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Unit 731 E85368 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Shirō Ishii
Shirō Ishii was a Japanese army medical officer and microbiologist who led Imperial Japan’s notorious biological warfare program during World War II, overseeing human experimentation and war crimes.
E395082 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: Shirō Ishii | Statement: [Unit 731, commander, Shirō Ishii]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shirō Ishii
Context triple: [Unit 731, commander, Shirō Ishii]
  • A. Tasuku Honjo
    Tasuku Honjo is a Japanese immunologist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering the PD-1 protein, which led to groundbreaking cancer immunotherapy treatments.
  • B. Shoji Sadao
    Shoji Sadao was a Japanese-American architect and close collaborator of Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi, known for his work on innovative geodesic and environmental structures.
  • C. Shibasaburo
    Shibasaburo is a Japanese given name most famously borne by the pioneering bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato, a co-discoverer of the plague bacillus.
  • D. Hatazō Adachi
    Hatazō Adachi was a Japanese general of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, best known for commanding forces in the Pacific theater.
  • E. Matome Ugaki
    Matome Ugaki was a Japanese Imperial Navy admiral during World War II, known for his close association with Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and for leading one of the final kamikaze missions of the war.
  • 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: Shirō Ishii
Triple: [Unit 731, commander, Shirō Ishii]
Generated description
Shirō Ishii was a Japanese army medical officer and microbiologist who led Imperial Japan’s notorious biological warfare program during World War II, overseeing human experimentation and war crimes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shirō Ishii
Target entity description: Shirō Ishii was a Japanese army medical officer and microbiologist who led Imperial Japan’s notorious biological warfare program during World War II, overseeing human experimentation and war crimes.
  • A. Tasuku Honjo
    Tasuku Honjo is a Japanese immunologist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering the PD-1 protein, which led to groundbreaking cancer immunotherapy treatments.
  • B. Shoji Sadao
    Shoji Sadao was a Japanese-American architect and close collaborator of Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi, known for his work on innovative geodesic and environmental structures.
  • C. Shibasaburo
    Shibasaburo is a Japanese given name most famously borne by the pioneering bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato, a co-discoverer of the plague bacillus.
  • D. Hatazō Adachi
    Hatazō Adachi was a Japanese general of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, best known for commanding forces in the Pacific theater.
  • E. Matome Ugaki
    Matome Ugaki was a Japanese Imperial Navy admiral during World War II, known for his close association with Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and for leading one of the final kamikaze missions of the war.
  • 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_69aed936de1c81908f91bed80f70abb2 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeec0438308190865ff74bee5a1cf2 completed March 9, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b51231608c8190bbc5dc990fba1606 completed March 14, 2026, 7:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b512b8f13881909a264439f9cbea24 completed March 14, 2026, 7:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b51339ee948190a7c9ab3c5eb106da completed March 14, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:19 p.m.