Triple

T6860265
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Townsend Harris E158258 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan
The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan was an 1858 agreement that opened Japan to extensive American trade and diplomatic relations, marking a key step in ending Japan’s isolationist policies.
E624573 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: Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan | Statement: [Townsend Harris, notableWork, Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan
Context triple: [Townsend Harris, notableWork, Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan]
  • A. Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation
    The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation was a 1794 agreement between the United States and Great Britain that sought to resolve lingering issues from the American Revolutionary War and normalize trade and diplomatic relations.
  • B. Treaty of San Francisco
    The Treaty of San Francisco was the 1951 peace treaty between Japan and most Allied nations that officially ended World War II hostilities with Japan and restored its sovereignty.
  • C. Convention of Kanagawa
    The Convention of Kanagawa was an 1854 treaty between Japan and the United States that ended Japan’s isolationist policy by opening select ports to American vessels and establishing diplomatic relations.
  • D. Treaty of Shimoda
    The Treaty of Shimoda was an 1855 agreement between the Russian Empire and Japan that established formal diplomatic relations and defined their borders in the Kuril Islands and surrounding regions.
  • E. Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905
    The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905 was an agreement that effectively stripped the Korean Empire of its diplomatic sovereignty and placed it under Japanese control, paving the way for Japan’s formal annexation of Korea.
  • 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: Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan
Triple: [Townsend Harris, notableWork, Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan]
Generated description
The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan was an 1858 agreement that opened Japan to extensive American trade and diplomatic relations, marking a key step in ending Japan’s isolationist policies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan
Target entity description: The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan was an 1858 agreement that opened Japan to extensive American trade and diplomatic relations, marking a key step in ending Japan’s isolationist policies.
  • A. Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation
    The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation was a 1794 agreement between the United States and Great Britain that sought to resolve lingering issues from the American Revolutionary War and normalize trade and diplomatic relations.
  • B. Treaty of San Francisco
    The Treaty of San Francisco was the 1951 peace treaty between Japan and most Allied nations that officially ended World War II hostilities with Japan and restored its sovereignty.
  • C. Convention of Kanagawa
    The Convention of Kanagawa was an 1854 treaty between Japan and the United States that ended Japan’s isolationist policy by opening select ports to American vessels and establishing diplomatic relations.
  • D. Treaty of Shimoda
    The Treaty of Shimoda was an 1855 agreement between the Russian Empire and Japan that established formal diplomatic relations and defined their borders in the Kuril Islands and surrounding regions.
  • E. Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905
    The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905 was an agreement that effectively stripped the Korean Empire of its diplomatic sovereignty and placed it under Japanese control, paving the way for Japan’s formal annexation of Korea.
  • 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_69c68830cdbc8190a8301c7a9d9f651a completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d8737fac81909fc546ca2bf6a278 completed March 27, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c72fe79af081909baacbfd4d5e8f24 completed March 28, 2026, 1:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7399b95e081908bbee3a598d6513c completed March 28, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c739f1b20c8190a8ef57357d4956b4 completed March 28, 2026, 2:16 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:21 p.m.