Triple

T4302775
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Morioka E99878 entity
Predicate historicalClan P53604 FINISHED
Object Nanbu clan
The Nanbu clan was a powerful samurai family that ruled much of northern Honshu, particularly the Morioka domain in Mutsu Province, throughout Japan’s feudal era.
E435320 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: Nanbu clan | Statement: [Morioka, historicalClan, Nanbu clan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nanbu clan
Context triple: [Morioka, historicalClan, Nanbu clan]
  • A. Yamato clan
    The Yamato clan was the dominant ruling family of early Japan that laid the foundations of the imperial line and centralized state during the formative centuries of Japanese history.
  • B. Maeda clan
    The Maeda clan was a powerful samurai family of the Sengoku and Edo periods, best known as one of the wealthiest and most influential daimyo houses under the Tokugawa shogunate.
  • C. Javanshir clan
    The Javanshir clan was a prominent Azerbaijani noble family that played a significant political and military role in the Karabakh region.
  • D. Uesugi clan
    The Uesugi clan was a powerful samurai family in Japan, most famous for warlord Uesugi Kenshin and its influential role in the Sengoku period.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Nanbu clan
Triple: [Morioka, historicalClan, Nanbu clan]
Generated description
The Nanbu clan was a powerful samurai family that ruled much of northern Honshu, particularly the Morioka domain in Mutsu Province, throughout Japan’s feudal era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nanbu clan
Target entity description: The Nanbu clan was a powerful samurai family that ruled much of northern Honshu, particularly the Morioka domain in Mutsu Province, throughout Japan’s feudal era.
  • A. Yamato clan
    The Yamato clan was the dominant ruling family of early Japan that laid the foundations of the imperial line and centralized state during the formative centuries of Japanese history.
  • B. Maeda clan
    The Maeda clan was a powerful samurai family of the Sengoku and Edo periods, best known as one of the wealthiest and most influential daimyo houses under the Tokugawa shogunate.
  • C. Javanshir clan
    The Javanshir clan was a prominent Azerbaijani noble family that played a significant political and military role in the Karabakh region.
  • D. Uesugi clan
    The Uesugi clan was a powerful samurai family in Japan, most famous for warlord Uesugi Kenshin and its influential role in the Sengoku period.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: historicalClan
Context triple: [Morioka, historicalClan, Nanbu clan]
  • A. historicalOrigin
    Indicates the relationship by which one entity serves as the source, origin, or starting point in history for another entity.
  • B. historicalBackground
    Indicates that one entity provides contextual historical information or circumstances that help explain the origin, development, or significance of another entity.
  • C. clanSystem
    Indicates a social structure in which individuals are organized into kin-based groups (clans) that define relationships, obligations, and affiliations among them.
  • D. ethnicHistory
    Indicates a relationship where one entity documents, describes, or is associated with the historical development, experiences, or heritage of an ethnic group.
  • E. hasHistoricalPolity chosen
    Indicates a relationship where an entity is associated with a political unit or state that existed in the past.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69b345528ebc8190b5abc7e95094792d completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b350b66450819089c9ff6ff9f045e5 completed March 12, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5e4ebb3808190a4be632e36140648 completed March 14, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5e5e96aac819093c43dc355de4509 completed March 14, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5e6587be88190884f61a7350ce5a9 completed March 14, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69b347ff45cc8190b0cc335a94cc3d73 completed March 12, 2026, 11:10 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:08 p.m.