Triple

T7588425
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Yìxiān E179673 entity
Predicate belongsToNamingTradition P78011 FINISHED
Object Chinese courtesy name system
The Chinese courtesy name system is a traditional naming practice in which individuals, typically upon reaching adulthood, receive an additional formal name used in social and literary contexts to show respect and refinement.
E675692 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: Chinese courtesy name system | Statement: [Yìxiān, belongsToNamingTradition, Chinese courtesy name system]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chinese courtesy name system
Context triple: [Yìxiān, belongsToNamingTradition, Chinese courtesy name system]
  • A. Chinese imperial examination system
    The Chinese imperial examination system was a centuries-long civil service recruitment method that selected government officials primarily through rigorous literary and philosophical tests rooted in Confucian classics.
  • B. Chinese characters
    Chinese characters are logographic symbols used for writing the Chinese language and several other East Asian languages, each typically representing a morpheme or meaningful unit.
  • C. Wade–Giles
    Wade–Giles is a historical system for romanizing Mandarin Chinese that was widely used in the English-speaking world before being largely replaced by Pinyin.
  • D. Classical Chinese
    Classical Chinese is the traditional written form of the Chinese language that served for centuries as the literary and scholarly standard across East Asia.
  • E. Hanja
    Hanja is the set of traditional Chinese characters historically used to write Korean, especially for proper names, academic terms, and classical texts.
  • 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: Chinese courtesy name system
Triple: [Yìxiān, belongsToNamingTradition, Chinese courtesy name system]
Generated description
The Chinese courtesy name system is a traditional naming practice in which individuals, typically upon reaching adulthood, receive an additional formal name used in social and literary contexts to show respect and refinement.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chinese courtesy name system
Target entity description: The Chinese courtesy name system is a traditional naming practice in which individuals, typically upon reaching adulthood, receive an additional formal name used in social and literary contexts to show respect and refinement.
  • A. Chinese imperial examination system
    The Chinese imperial examination system was a centuries-long civil service recruitment method that selected government officials primarily through rigorous literary and philosophical tests rooted in Confucian classics.
  • B. Chinese characters
    Chinese characters are logographic symbols used for writing the Chinese language and several other East Asian languages, each typically representing a morpheme or meaningful unit.
  • C. Wade–Giles
    Wade–Giles is a historical system for romanizing Mandarin Chinese that was widely used in the English-speaking world before being largely replaced by Pinyin.
  • D. Classical Chinese
    Classical Chinese is the traditional written form of the Chinese language that served for centuries as the literary and scholarly standard across East Asia.
  • E. Hanja
    Hanja is the set of traditional Chinese characters historically used to write Korean, especially for proper names, academic terms, and classical texts.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: belongsToNamingTradition
Context triple: [Yìxiān, belongsToNamingTradition, Chinese courtesy name system]
  • A. countryOfNamingTradition
    Indicates the country whose cultural or linguistic naming conventions are used to form or interpret a given name.
  • B. hasTraditionalName
    Indicates that an entity is associated with a name traditionally used or recognized for it, often rooted in long-standing cultural or historical practice.
  • C. traditionAscribes
    Indicates that a tradition attributes or assigns a particular quality, role, origin, or action to an entity.
  • D. traditionInheritedFrom
    Indicates that a tradition has been passed down or derived from an earlier source, group, or culture.
  • E. traditionsMaintainedBy
    Indicates that certain traditions are preserved, upheld, or continued in practice by a particular entity.
  • 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_69c69f335248819093c1006f30513708 completed March 27, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f99875908190b09584cf13ea1e08 completed March 27, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8618d29c4819083e78266af8f2daa completed March 28, 2026, 11:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c86211e4f88190b38bce6441e33b53 completed March 28, 2026, 11:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c862b8f3688190b0abc00458f70d7e completed March 28, 2026, 11:22 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69c6f4e04c2c8190a889d928515d9b8e completed March 27, 2026, 9:21 p.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69c6f8184bb08190b2f70545a6aa277c completed March 27, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:52 p.m.