Triple

T6656606
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chōshū Domain E150960 entity
Predicate formerRulingClan P72127 FINISHED
Object Ōuchi clan
The Ōuchi clan was a powerful samurai family of western Japan that dominated trade, politics, and culture in the Chūgoku region during the Muromachi period.
E612457 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: Ōuchi clan | Statement: [Chōshū Domain, formerRulingClan, Ōuchi clan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ōuchi clan
Context triple: [Chōshū Domain, formerRulingClan, Ōuchi clan]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Mōri clan
    The Mōri clan was a powerful samurai family that rose to prominence as daimyō in western Honshu during Japan’s Sengoku and Edo periods, playing a major role in regional politics and military affairs.
  • D. Matsudaira clan
    The Matsudaira clan was a prominent samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku and early Edo periods, best known as the ancestral house of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Tokugawa shogunate.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Ōuchi clan
Triple: [Chōshū Domain, formerRulingClan, Ōuchi clan]
Generated description
The Ōuchi clan was a powerful samurai family of western Japan that dominated trade, politics, and culture in the Chūgoku region during the Muromachi period.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ōuchi clan
Target entity description: The Ōuchi clan was a powerful samurai family of western Japan that dominated trade, politics, and culture in the Chūgoku region during the Muromachi period.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Mōri clan
    The Mōri clan was a powerful samurai family that rose to prominence as daimyō in western Honshu during Japan’s Sengoku and Edo periods, playing a major role in regional politics and military affairs.
  • D. Matsudaira clan
    The Matsudaira clan was a prominent samurai family of Japan’s Sengoku and early Edo periods, best known as the ancestral house of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Tokugawa shogunate.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: formerRulingClan
Context triple: [Chōshū Domain, formerRulingClan, Ōuchi clan]
  • A. formerRulerState
    Indicates that an entity previously held ruling authority over a given state or territory but no longer does so.
  • B. clanChiefBranchOf
    Indicates that a particular clan chief belongs to, or is a leading figure within, a specific branch or subdivision of a larger clan.
  • C. clanChiefFamilyName
    Indicates that the object is the family name (surname) of the clan chief associated with the subject.
  • D. formerSovereign
    Indicates that an entity once held sovereign (ruling) authority over another entity but no longer does.
  • E. clanType
    Indicates the specific category or classification of a clan within a broader clan system or hierarchy.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69c687f2c9508190a60b9aad31d3f358 completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6cc9d53848190ac75523c157249c6 completed March 27, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6f79817f08190a9e499f09b25e67a completed March 27, 2026, 9:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6f86efd00819099d48fe7cb9640a3 completed March 27, 2026, 9:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6f91ac7788190832a133c4fe046f1 completed March 27, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69c6ad071b0081909b96dd4b93414bd1 completed March 27, 2026, 4:15 p.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69c6cc988c0081909d22b86ca299331c completed March 27, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:01 p.m.