Triple

T4955148
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chunichi Dragons E111262 entity
Predicate hasRetiredNumber P895 FINISHED
Object 34 (Masahiro Yamamoto)
34 (Masahiro Yamamoto) is the jersey number famously worn by longtime Chunichi Dragons left-handed pitcher Masahiro Yamamoto, which the team retired in his honor.
 E482575 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: 34 (Masahiro Yamamoto) | Statement: [Chunichi Dragons, hasRetiredNumber, 34 (Masahiro Yamamoto)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: 34 (Masahiro Yamamoto)
Context triple: [Chunichi Dragons, hasRetiredNumber, 34 (Masahiro Yamamoto)]
  • A. Jirō Minami
    Jirō Minami was a Japanese general and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of Korea during the later period of Japanese rule.
  • B. Makoto Yamashita
    Makoto Yamashita is a Japanese politician serving as the governor of Nara Prefecture.
  • C. Yasuhiro
    Yasuhiro is a Japanese masculine given name borne by various notable figures in politics, sports, and entertainment.
  • D. Makoto Kobayashi
    Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese theoretical physicist renowned for his work on CP violation in the Standard Model, for which he shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • E. Hideo Saito
    Hideo Saito was a prominent Japanese cellist and conductor renowned as a pioneering music educator who trained many leading conductors, including Seiji Ozawa.
  • 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: 34 (Masahiro Yamamoto)
Triple: [Chunichi Dragons, hasRetiredNumber, 34 (Masahiro Yamamoto)]
Generated description
34 (Masahiro Yamamoto) is the jersey number famously worn by longtime Chunichi Dragons left-handed pitcher Masahiro Yamamoto, which the team retired in his honor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: 34 (Masahiro Yamamoto)
Target entity description: 34 (Masahiro Yamamoto) is the jersey number famously worn by longtime Chunichi Dragons left-handed pitcher Masahiro Yamamoto, which the team retired in his honor.
  • A. Jirō Minami
    Jirō Minami was a Japanese general and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of Korea during the later period of Japanese rule.
  • B. Makoto Yamashita
    Makoto Yamashita is a Japanese politician serving as the governor of Nara Prefecture.
  • C. Yasuhiro
    Yasuhiro is a Japanese masculine given name borne by various notable figures in politics, sports, and entertainment.
  • D. Makoto Kobayashi
    Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese theoretical physicist renowned for his work on CP violation in the Standard Model, for which he shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • E. Hideo Saito
    Hideo Saito was a prominent Japanese cellist and conductor renowned as a pioneering music educator who trained many leading conductors, including Seiji Ozawa.
  • 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_69bd4418390c8190b7e9766a2512ce55 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd71babb44819085b4cd4864433e79 completed March 20, 2026, 4:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be81da92b48190ab41ad8f7a891544 completed March 21, 2026, 11:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be8488df2c8190af86f34c5589a62a completed March 21, 2026, 11:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be84f6d8988190b79646f063ed0567 completed March 21, 2026, 11:45 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:32 p.m.