Triple

T4268935
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shanghai Express E96891 entity
Predicate leadCharacter P1668 FINISHED
Object Shanghai Lily
Shanghai Lily is the sophisticated and enigmatic female protagonist portrayed by Marlene Dietrich in the 1932 film "Shanghai Express."
E426108 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: Shanghai Lily | Statement: [Shanghai Express, leadCharacter, Shanghai Lily]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shanghai Lily
Context triple: [Shanghai Express, leadCharacter, Shanghai Lily]
  • A. The Plum Blossom
    "The Plum Blossom" is a track from the 1989 album *China* by electronic music composer Vangelis, known for its atmospheric, synthesizer-driven evocation of East Asian themes.
  • B. The Flower of Shanghai
    The Flower of Shanghai is a popular nickname for Shanghai Shenhua F.C., one of China's most historic and passionately supported professional football clubs.
  • C. Lady Wang
    Lady Wang was a Ming dynasty noblewoman best known as the consort of the Taichang Emperor and the mother of the Tianqi Emperor.
  • D. Daughter of Shanghai
    Daughter of Shanghai is a 1937 crime drama film starring Anna May Wong that is notable for its rare early Hollywood portrayal of a Chinese American heroine in a leading, heroic role.
  • E. Lili
    Lili is a 1953 musical fantasy film starring Leslie Caron as a naive orphan who joins a carnival and forms a touching bond with a puppeteer.
  • 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: Shanghai Lily
Triple: [Shanghai Express, leadCharacter, Shanghai Lily]
Generated description
Shanghai Lily is the sophisticated and enigmatic female protagonist portrayed by Marlene Dietrich in the 1932 film "Shanghai Express."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shanghai Lily
Target entity description: Shanghai Lily is the sophisticated and enigmatic female protagonist portrayed by Marlene Dietrich in the 1932 film "Shanghai Express."
  • A. The Plum Blossom
    "The Plum Blossom" is a track from the 1989 album *China* by electronic music composer Vangelis, known for its atmospheric, synthesizer-driven evocation of East Asian themes.
  • B. The Flower of Shanghai
    The Flower of Shanghai is a popular nickname for Shanghai Shenhua F.C., one of China's most historic and passionately supported professional football clubs.
  • C. Lady Wang
    Lady Wang was a Ming dynasty noblewoman best known as the consort of the Taichang Emperor and the mother of the Tianqi Emperor.
  • D. Daughter of Shanghai
    Daughter of Shanghai is a 1937 crime drama film starring Anna May Wong that is notable for its rare early Hollywood portrayal of a Chinese American heroine in a leading, heroic role.
  • E. Lili
    Lili is a 1953 musical fantasy film starring Leslie Caron as a naive orphan who joins a carnival and forms a touching bond with a puppeteer.
  • 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_69b34543f06c8190915ebb1a4574ffa9 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b34ff913608190b6ccf4a85057b07b completed March 12, 2026, 11:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5b79fe8c08190b4a9e4812babc78e completed March 14, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5b8f79a7081909a09e9a7e4241472 completed March 14, 2026, 7:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5b967dabc8190913a37a866bb1c9d completed March 14, 2026, 7:39 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:07 p.m.