Triple

T5696151
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Xunzi E125544 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Xun Kuang
Xun Kuang, better known as Xunzi, was an influential Warring States–period Confucian philosopher noted for his belief in the innate badness of human nature and the importance of ritual and education.
 E542041 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: Xun Kuang | Statement: [Xunzi, birthName, Xun Kuang]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Xun Kuang
Context triple: [Xunzi, birthName, Xun Kuang]
  • A. Zhu Houxi
    Zhu Houxi was a Ming dynasty imperial prince, known primarily as a son of the Hongzhi Emperor of China.
  • B. Shen Dao
    Shen Dao is the ceremonial spirit road leading to the Ming Tombs near Beijing, lined with stone statues and monuments that honor deceased emperors.
  • C. Zigong
    Zigong is a historic industrial city in southern Sichuan, China, best known for its ancient salt industry and renowned dinosaur fossil sites.
  • D. Shan Zuchang
    Shan Zuchang is a Chinese businessman best known for serving as chairman of English football club West Bromwich Albion.
  • E. Pan Xuan
    Pan Xuan was the wife of Chinese revolutionary and intellectual Chen Duxiu, a key figure in the May Fourth Movement and co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party.
  • 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: Xun Kuang
Triple: [Xunzi, birthName, Xun Kuang]
Generated description
Xun Kuang, better known as Xunzi, was an influential Warring States–period Confucian philosopher noted for his belief in the innate badness of human nature and the importance of ritual and education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Xun Kuang
Target entity description: Xun Kuang, better known as Xunzi, was an influential Warring States–period Confucian philosopher noted for his belief in the innate badness of human nature and the importance of ritual and education.
  • A. Zhu Houxi
    Zhu Houxi was a Ming dynasty imperial prince, known primarily as a son of the Hongzhi Emperor of China.
  • B. Shen Dao
    Shen Dao is the ceremonial spirit road leading to the Ming Tombs near Beijing, lined with stone statues and monuments that honor deceased emperors.
  • C. Zigong
    Zigong is a historic industrial city in southern Sichuan, China, best known for its ancient salt industry and renowned dinosaur fossil sites.
  • D. Shan Zuchang
    Shan Zuchang is a Chinese businessman best known for serving as chairman of English football club West Bromwich Albion.
  • E. Pan Xuan
    Pan Xuan was the wife of Chinese revolutionary and intellectual Chen Duxiu, a key figure in the May Fourth Movement and co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party.
  • 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_69c0082bb19c8190823a4facd3cba79b completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0240bde1881909f7ea13bd84deaa8 completed March 22, 2026, 5:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c05a5635448190ada625283405752f completed March 22, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c05be7f7cc8190bb1f8081289c5e02 completed March 22, 2026, 9:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0620ee1848190935f5f78abbed7ba completed March 22, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:45 p.m.