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]
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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.
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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.
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C.
Shibasaburo
Shibasaburo is a Japanese given name most famously borne by the pioneering bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato, a co-discoverer of the plague bacillus.
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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.
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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.