Triple

T8006893
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Zizhi Tongjian E186383 entity
Predicate editorialTeamMember P45343 FINISHED
Object Liu Ban
Liu Ban was a Chinese scholar and official known for serving on the editorial team that compiled the historical chronicle Zizhi Tongjian.
E713277 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: Liu Ban | Statement: [Zizhi Tongjian, editorialTeamMember, Liu Ban]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Liu Ban
Context triple: [Zizhi Tongjian, editorialTeamMember, Liu Ban]
  • A. Ban Gu
    Ban Gu was a prominent 1st-century Chinese historian and scholar of the Eastern Han dynasty, best known for authoring one of China’s most important official dynastic histories.
  • B. Chao Cuo
    Chao Cuo was an influential early Han dynasty statesman and reformer whose policies and advice on centralization and frontier defense helped shape imperial governance in China.
  • C. Xun Kuang
    Xun Kuang, better known as Xunzi, was an influential Warring States–period Confucian philosopher noted for his belief in the innate badness of human nature and the importance of ritual and education.
  • D. Li Si
    Li Si was a powerful Chinese statesman and legalist philosopher who served as chancellor under Qin Shi Huang and played a key role in the unification and centralization of China.
  • E. Wei He
    Wei He is the Chinese name for the Wei River, a major tributary of the Yellow River that flows through the historical heartland of ancient Chinese civilization in Shaanxi province.
  • 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: Liu Ban
Triple: [Zizhi Tongjian, editorialTeamMember, Liu Ban]
Generated description
Liu Ban was a Chinese scholar and official known for serving on the editorial team that compiled the historical chronicle Zizhi Tongjian.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Liu Ban
Target entity description: Liu Ban was a Chinese scholar and official known for serving on the editorial team that compiled the historical chronicle Zizhi Tongjian.
  • A. Ban Gu
    Ban Gu was a prominent 1st-century Chinese historian and scholar of the Eastern Han dynasty, best known for authoring one of China’s most important official dynastic histories.
  • B. Chao Cuo
    Chao Cuo was an influential early Han dynasty statesman and reformer whose policies and advice on centralization and frontier defense helped shape imperial governance in China.
  • C. Xun Kuang
    Xun Kuang, better known as Xunzi, was an influential Warring States–period Confucian philosopher noted for his belief in the innate badness of human nature and the importance of ritual and education.
  • D. Li Si
    Li Si was a powerful Chinese statesman and legalist philosopher who served as chancellor under Qin Shi Huang and played a key role in the unification and centralization of China.
  • E. Wei He
    Wei He is the Chinese name for the Wei River, a major tributary of the Yellow River that flows through the historical heartland of ancient Chinese civilization in Shaanxi province.
  • 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_69ca82abaffc8190ab8af79cdbc31ab3 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3cf8a6048190970685a83fd2f59d completed March 31, 2026, 3:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc93a132c08190bc9a00667aa32b90 completed April 1, 2026, 3:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc9557c6148190a759021b6add0a61 completed April 1, 2026, 3:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc96a8bb688190a352de1798b380f1 completed April 1, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:18 p.m.