Triple

T5034380
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Saigō Takamori E113385 entity
Predicate clan P1915 FINISHED
Object Saigō clan
The Saigō clan is a Japanese samurai family best known for producing Saigō Takamori, a key leader in the Meiji Restoration and often called the “last true samurai.”
E488153 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: Saigō clan | Statement: [Saigō Takamori, clan, Saigō clan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Saigō clan
Context triple: [Saigō Takamori, clan, Saigō 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. Toyotomi clan
    The Toyotomi clan was a powerful Japanese samurai family that rose to prominence in the late 16th century under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who unified much of Japan before the Tokugawa shogunate.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Tokugawa clan
    The Tokugawa clan was a powerful Japanese samurai family that established and ruled the Tokugawa shogunate, which governed Japan during the Edo period from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Saigō clan
Triple: [Saigō Takamori, clan, Saigō clan]
Generated description
The Saigō clan is a Japanese samurai family best known for producing Saigō Takamori, a key leader in the Meiji Restoration and often called the “last true samurai.”
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Saigō clan
Target entity description: The Saigō clan is a Japanese samurai family best known for producing Saigō Takamori, a key leader in the Meiji Restoration and often called the “last true samurai.”
  • 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. Toyotomi clan
    The Toyotomi clan was a powerful Japanese samurai family that rose to prominence in the late 16th century under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who unified much of Japan before the Tokugawa shogunate.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Tokugawa clan
    The Tokugawa clan was a powerful Japanese samurai family that established and ruled the Tokugawa shogunate, which governed Japan during the Edo period from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69bd44384298819089c49e7c330ec7b8 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd73b8646c8190b3cc20193e4639ee completed March 20, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be9c759c608190875b6d48d99024b4 completed March 21, 2026, 1:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be9de82ed48190bb85ba05a2d4ecbe completed March 21, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be9ea74c248190b08113606e43ebc5 completed March 21, 2026, 1:35 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:36 p.m.