Triple

T4357687
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Norman Chan E98589 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object Joseph Yam
Joseph Yam is a prominent Hong Kong banker best known as the founding Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, where he played a key role in managing the territory’s monetary and financial stability.
E432937 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: Joseph Yam | Statement: [Norman Chan, precededBy, Joseph Yam]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Yam
Context triple: [Norman Chan, precededBy, Joseph Yam]
  • A. Victor Wong
    Victor Wong was an American character actor known for his distinctive presence in films such as "The Last Emperor," "Big Trouble in Little China," and "Tremors."
  • B. Ken Kao
    Ken Kao is an American film producer known for backing a range of independent and auteur-driven projects.
  • C. James Hiroyuki Liao
    James Hiroyuki Liao is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and voice acting, including roles in series like Prison Break and Barry.
  • D. Phil Tan
    Phil Tan is a Grammy-winning mixing engineer renowned for his work on numerous chart-topping pop and R&B records.
  • E. Ray Yoshida
    Ray Yoshida was an influential American painter and educator associated with the Chicago Imagists, known for his collage-like compositions and his long teaching career shaping generations of artists.
  • 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: Joseph Yam
Triple: [Norman Chan, precededBy, Joseph Yam]
Generated description
Joseph Yam is a prominent Hong Kong banker best known as the founding Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, where he played a key role in managing the territory’s monetary and financial stability.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Yam
Target entity description: Joseph Yam is a prominent Hong Kong banker best known as the founding Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, where he played a key role in managing the territory’s monetary and financial stability.
  • A. Victor Wong
    Victor Wong was an American character actor known for his distinctive presence in films such as "The Last Emperor," "Big Trouble in Little China," and "Tremors."
  • B. Ken Kao
    Ken Kao is an American film producer known for backing a range of independent and auteur-driven projects.
  • C. James Hiroyuki Liao
    James Hiroyuki Liao is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and voice acting, including roles in series like Prison Break and Barry.
  • D. Phil Tan
    Phil Tan is a Grammy-winning mixing engineer renowned for his work on numerous chart-topping pop and R&B records.
  • E. Ray Yoshida
    Ray Yoshida was an influential American painter and educator associated with the Chicago Imagists, known for his collage-like compositions and his long teaching career shaping generations of artists.
  • 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_69b3454c772081908e20173e379e8ebe completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b351c7fa1881908bdc844a7142eb65 completed March 12, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5dbbcb6188190a8a4da6a080f0d61 completed March 14, 2026, 10:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5dc7763488190b056ba759ac9fa73 completed March 14, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5dd07854c8190ac55586d245028a6 completed March 14, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:16 p.m.