Triple

T6934624
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Matthew Calbraith Perry E160522 entity
Predicate commanded P2333 FINISHED
Object U.S. naval expedition to Japan
The U.S. naval expedition to Japan was the mid-19th-century American mission that forced the opening of Japan to Western trade and diplomacy, ending over two centuries of Japanese isolation.
E629037 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: U.S. naval expedition to Japan | Statement: [Matthew Calbraith Perry, commanded, U.S. naval expedition to Japan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: U.S. naval expedition to Japan
Context triple: [Matthew Calbraith Perry, commanded, U.S. naval expedition to Japan]
  • A. 1871 United States expedition to Korea
    The 1871 United States expedition to Korea was a U.S. naval and military operation aimed at opening trade and securing diplomatic relations with Korea, which resulted in armed conflict near Ganghwa Island.
  • B. Declaration of war on Japan
    The Declaration of war on Japan was the formal U.S. congressional resolution passed on December 8, 1941, that brought the United States into World War II following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • C. Japanese landings in the Moluccas
    Japanese landings in the Moluccas were early World War II amphibious operations by Imperial Japan to seize the strategically important Dutch-held islands in the Maluku (Moluccas) region of the East Indies.
  • D. Iwakura Mission
    The Iwakura Mission was a landmark 1871–1873 Japanese diplomatic and fact-finding tour of the United States and Europe that aimed to renegotiate unequal treaties and study Western institutions to guide Japan’s modernization.
  • E. Pacific theater of the Russo-Japanese War
    The Pacific theater of the Russo-Japanese War was the maritime and coastal zone in East Asia where Imperial Russia and Imperial Japan fought major naval and amphibious campaigns for control of the seas and key ports between 1904 and 1905.
  • 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: U.S. naval expedition to Japan
Triple: [Matthew Calbraith Perry, commanded, U.S. naval expedition to Japan]
Generated description
The U.S. naval expedition to Japan was the mid-19th-century American mission that forced the opening of Japan to Western trade and diplomacy, ending over two centuries of Japanese isolation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: U.S. naval expedition to Japan
Target entity description: The U.S. naval expedition to Japan was the mid-19th-century American mission that forced the opening of Japan to Western trade and diplomacy, ending over two centuries of Japanese isolation.
  • A. 1871 United States expedition to Korea
    The 1871 United States expedition to Korea was a U.S. naval and military operation aimed at opening trade and securing diplomatic relations with Korea, which resulted in armed conflict near Ganghwa Island.
  • B. Declaration of war on Japan
    The Declaration of war on Japan was the formal U.S. congressional resolution passed on December 8, 1941, that brought the United States into World War II following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • C. Japanese landings in the Moluccas
    Japanese landings in the Moluccas were early World War II amphibious operations by Imperial Japan to seize the strategically important Dutch-held islands in the Maluku (Moluccas) region of the East Indies.
  • D. Iwakura Mission
    The Iwakura Mission was a landmark 1871–1873 Japanese diplomatic and fact-finding tour of the United States and Europe that aimed to renegotiate unequal treaties and study Western institutions to guide Japan’s modernization.
  • E. Pacific theater of the Russo-Japanese War
    The Pacific theater of the Russo-Japanese War was the maritime and coastal zone in East Asia where Imperial Russia and Imperial Japan fought major naval and amphibious campaigns for control of the seas and key ports between 1904 and 1905.
  • 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_69c6884e15208190b9e91487eaafcf85 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6da429b5c8190a59901e0005a5415 completed March 27, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7514ead808190bff53b49b5f331fb completed March 28, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7524d677c81909531ba9bb46f2632 completed March 28, 2026, 4 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c752bef2808190843f3cad53aa5702 completed March 28, 2026, 4:02 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:27 p.m.