Triple

T6370115
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Anglo-Chinese War E143323 entity
Predicate hasSignificantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object British capture of Shanghai (1842)
The British capture of Shanghai in 1842 was a key military operation during the First Opium War that helped force Qing China into signing the Treaty of Nanking and opening the city to foreign trade.
E588059 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: British capture of Shanghai (1842) | Statement: [Anglo-Chinese War, hasSignificantEvent, British capture of Shanghai (1842)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British capture of Shanghai (1842)
Context triple: [Anglo-Chinese War, hasSignificantEvent, British capture of Shanghai (1842)]
  • A. British concession in Canton
    The British concession in Canton was a foreign-controlled enclave in Guangzhou, China, established in the 19th century as part of the treaty port system that facilitated British trade and extraterritorial rights.
  • B. British concession in Amoy
    The British concession in Amoy was a 19th- and early 20th-century foreign-controlled enclave in the Chinese port city of Xiamen, established after the Opium Wars as part of Britain’s treaty port system.
  • C. British concession in Tianjin
    The British concession in Tianjin was a foreign-controlled enclave established by the United Kingdom in the late 19th century that served as a key hub of British political, commercial, and cultural influence in northern China until the mid-20th century.
  • D. Shanghai International Settlement (British participation)
    The Shanghai International Settlement (British participation) was a foreign-controlled enclave in Shanghai where Britain, alongside other Western powers, exercised extraterritorial rights and administered a key commercial and diplomatic hub in China from the mid-19th to mid-20th century.
  • E. Kiautschou Bay concession
    The Kiautschou Bay concession was a German colonial leasehold in China centered on the port of Qingdao, serving as a strategic naval base and commercial hub for the German Empire from 1898 to 1914.
  • 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: British capture of Shanghai (1842)
Triple: [Anglo-Chinese War, hasSignificantEvent, British capture of Shanghai (1842)]
Generated description
The British capture of Shanghai in 1842 was a key military operation during the First Opium War that helped force Qing China into signing the Treaty of Nanking and opening the city to foreign trade.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British capture of Shanghai (1842)
Target entity description: The British capture of Shanghai in 1842 was a key military operation during the First Opium War that helped force Qing China into signing the Treaty of Nanking and opening the city to foreign trade.
  • A. British concession in Canton
    The British concession in Canton was a foreign-controlled enclave in Guangzhou, China, established in the 19th century as part of the treaty port system that facilitated British trade and extraterritorial rights.
  • B. British concession in Amoy
    The British concession in Amoy was a 19th- and early 20th-century foreign-controlled enclave in the Chinese port city of Xiamen, established after the Opium Wars as part of Britain’s treaty port system.
  • C. British concession in Tianjin
    The British concession in Tianjin was a foreign-controlled enclave established by the United Kingdom in the late 19th century that served as a key hub of British political, commercial, and cultural influence in northern China until the mid-20th century.
  • D. Shanghai International Settlement (British participation)
    The Shanghai International Settlement (British participation) was a foreign-controlled enclave in Shanghai where Britain, alongside other Western powers, exercised extraterritorial rights and administered a key commercial and diplomatic hub in China from the mid-19th to mid-20th century.
  • E. Kiautschou Bay concession
    The Kiautschou Bay concession was a German colonial leasehold in China centered on the port of Qingdao, serving as a strategic naval base and commercial hub for the German Empire from 1898 to 1914.
  • 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_69c008d8c61081908bcaf61510d881ed completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c068277f6c81908e6a55e006f0c229 completed March 22, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c62d8bce3481909b0bf7533b330d1f completed March 27, 2026, 7:11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c62e2072808190a4f2dd262b631c88 completed March 27, 2026, 7:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c62f1bbdac8190b0cff9fbcddd68a7 completed March 27, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:33 p.m.