Triple

T4204773
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Pillow Book E86156 entity
Predicate writtenByCulture P54356 FINISHED
Object Heian aristocracy
The Heian aristocracy was the refined courtly elite of Japan’s Heian period, renowned for its aesthetic sophistication, literary culture, and highly ritualized social life.
E420690 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Heian aristocracy | Statement: [The Pillow Book, writtenByCulture, Heian aristocracy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Heian aristocracy
Context triple: [The Pillow Book, writtenByCulture, Heian aristocracy]
  • A. Fujiwara clan
    The Fujiwara clan was a powerful and influential aristocratic family that dominated Japanese court politics for centuries, especially during the Heian period, through strategic marriages and regency positions.
  • B. Sugawara clan
    The Sugawara clan was an influential Japanese aristocratic family renowned for its scholarship and literary achievements, most famously represented by the Heian-era scholar and statesman Sugawara no Michizane.
  • C. Heian period
    The Heian period was a classical era of Japanese history (794–1185) marked by an imperial court-centered culture, flourishing literature such as The Tale of Genji, and the development of a distinct Japanese aesthetic.
  • D. Kujō family
    The Kujō family is a prominent Japanese kuge (court noble) lineage that formed one of the five regent houses historically supplying regents and consorts to the imperial court.
  • E. Minamoto clan
    The Minamoto clan was one of the most powerful and influential samurai lineages in Japanese history, instrumental in the rise of the shogunate and warrior rule.
  • 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: Heian aristocracy
Triple: [The Pillow Book, writtenByCulture, Heian aristocracy]
Generated description
The Heian aristocracy was the refined courtly elite of Japan’s Heian period, renowned for its aesthetic sophistication, literary culture, and highly ritualized social life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Heian aristocracy
Target entity description: The Heian aristocracy was the refined courtly elite of Japan’s Heian period, renowned for its aesthetic sophistication, literary culture, and highly ritualized social life.
  • A. Fujiwara clan
    The Fujiwara clan was a powerful and influential aristocratic family that dominated Japanese court politics for centuries, especially during the Heian period, through strategic marriages and regency positions.
  • B. Sugawara clan
    The Sugawara clan was an influential Japanese aristocratic family renowned for its scholarship and literary achievements, most famously represented by the Heian-era scholar and statesman Sugawara no Michizane.
  • C. Heian period
    The Heian period was a classical era of Japanese history (794–1185) marked by an imperial court-centered culture, flourishing literature such as The Tale of Genji, and the development of a distinct Japanese aesthetic.
  • D. Kujō family
    The Kujō family is a prominent Japanese kuge (court noble) lineage that formed one of the five regent houses historically supplying regents and consorts to the imperial court.
  • E. Minamoto clan
    The Minamoto clan was one of the most powerful and influential samurai lineages in Japanese history, instrumental in the rise of the shogunate and warrior rule.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: writtenByCulture
Context triple: [The Pillow Book, writtenByCulture, Heian aristocracy]
  • A. writtenIn
    Indicates that a work (such as a text, program, or document) is expressed or encoded using a particular language or notation.
  • B. alsoWrittenIn
    Indicates that the same content, work, or information is expressed or available in an additional language, script, or writing system.
  • C. currentlyWrittenIn
    Indicates that a work or document is, at the present time, expressed or composed in a particular language or writing system.
  • D. languageOfWritings
    Indicates that a specified language is the one in which certain writings or written works are composed.
  • E. hasWritingTraditionSince
    Indicates that a writing tradition has been present or established for an entity starting from a specified point in time.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69aed93b89f48190a31f6d57c760e42f completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af0382eafc8190946bf45bf28095dd completed March 9, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b58a19c90c819083a750fafa6fd1c7 completed March 14, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b58e337aec819092020d46ee235fd1 completed March 14, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b58e9f50948190a40254375e76153c completed March 14, 2026, 4:36 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69af01959c4881909eb1adcb3bdadbe6 completed March 9, 2026, 5:21 p.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69af02e4e2308190b527e3b78eb8fa71 completed March 9, 2026, 5:27 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:49 p.m.