Triple

T5233132
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Legalism E118155 entity
Predicate majorThinker P9261 FINISHED
Object Shang Yang
Shang Yang was an influential Chinese statesman and philosopher of the Warring States period whose reforms in the state of Qin laid the foundations for Legalist political theory and the eventual unification of China.
E504995 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: Shang Yang | Statement: [Legalism, majorThinker, Shang Yang]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shang Yang
Context triple: [Legalism, majorThinker, Shang Yang]
  • A. Cai Chang
    Cai Chang was a prominent Chinese communist revolutionary and early feminist leader who played a key role in the women’s movement in 20th-century China.
  • B. King Wuling of Zhao
    King Wuling of Zhao was a reformist ruler of the State of Zhao during China’s Warring States period, best known for introducing military and cultural reforms such as the adoption of nomadic-style cavalry warfare.
  • C. Qin Bangxian
    Qin Bangxian, better known by his alias Bo Gu, was a prominent early leader and theoretician of the Chinese Communist Party who played a key role in its revolutionary activities during the 1930s.
  • D. Li Si
    Li Si was a powerful Chinese statesman and legalist philosopher who served as chancellor under Qin Shi Huang and played a key role in the unification and centralization of China.
  • E. Qin Shi Huang
    Qin Shi Huang was the first emperor of a unified China, known for centralizing power, standardizing laws, writing, and currency, and initiating massive projects like the Great Wall and his famed terracotta army.
  • 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: Shang Yang
Triple: [Legalism, majorThinker, Shang Yang]
Generated description
Shang Yang was an influential Chinese statesman and philosopher of the Warring States period whose reforms in the state of Qin laid the foundations for Legalist political theory and the eventual unification of China.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shang Yang
Target entity description: Shang Yang was an influential Chinese statesman and philosopher of the Warring States period whose reforms in the state of Qin laid the foundations for Legalist political theory and the eventual unification of China.
  • A. Cai Chang
    Cai Chang was a prominent Chinese communist revolutionary and early feminist leader who played a key role in the women’s movement in 20th-century China.
  • B. King Wuling of Zhao
    King Wuling of Zhao was a reformist ruler of the State of Zhao during China’s Warring States period, best known for introducing military and cultural reforms such as the adoption of nomadic-style cavalry warfare.
  • C. Qin Bangxian
    Qin Bangxian, better known by his alias Bo Gu, was a prominent early leader and theoretician of the Chinese Communist Party who played a key role in its revolutionary activities during the 1930s.
  • D. Li Si
    Li Si was a powerful Chinese statesman and legalist philosopher who served as chancellor under Qin Shi Huang and played a key role in the unification and centralization of China.
  • E. Qin Shi Huang
    Qin Shi Huang was the first emperor of a unified China, known for centralizing power, standardizing laws, writing, and currency, and initiating massive projects like the Great Wall and his famed terracotta army.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: majorThinker
Context triple: [Legalism, majorThinker, Shang Yang]
  • A. hasThinkTank
    Indicates that an entity is associated with, supported by, or operates a think tank as part of its activities or structure.
  • B. discussesThinker
    Indicates that one entity engages in discussion or analysis about a particular thinker or philosopher.
  • C. master
    Indicates that one entity has authoritative control, ownership, or primary dominance over another entity or process.
  • D. mainDebater
    Indicates that an entity serves as the primary or lead participant in a debate or argumentative exchange.
  • E. mainIdeologue chosen
    Indicates that one entity serves as the primary theorist or chief ideological architect behind another entity’s beliefs, policies, or movement.
  • 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_69bd4466fb8c819083b806a79414d7e4 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7b0389048190b55b7c44fe657044 completed March 20, 2026, 4:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bef8154940819098ed76e14804f4b3 completed March 21, 2026, 7:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bef8bfcd1c819090b81f8ebb097c5b completed March 21, 2026, 8 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bef95e7ce48190a1ec2fc27ce37d00 completed March 21, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69bd77bf1ef08190bb3487b3f3ee088c completed March 20, 2026, 4:37 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:49 p.m.