Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tang Xianzu E186743 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object “Shakespeare of the East”
“Shakespeare of the East” is a nickname for Tang Xianzu, the renowned Ming dynasty playwright celebrated for his lyrical dramas such as “The Peony Pavilion.”
E708814 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: “Shakespeare of the East” | Statement: [Tang Xianzu, alsoKnownAs, “Shakespeare of the East”]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “Shakespeare of the East”
Context triple: [Tang Xianzu, alsoKnownAs, “Shakespeare of the East”]
  • A. Shakespeare-Wallah
    Shakespeare-Wallah is a 1965 English-language Indian drama film, directed by James Ivory and written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, that follows a traveling British theatre troupe in post-colonial India as they struggle to survive amid the rising popularity of Bollywood cinema.
  • B. Shakespeare; or, the Poet
    "Shakespeare; or, the Poet" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that examines William Shakespeare’s genius and significance as the archetypal poet, included as one of the portraits in his collection "Representative Men."
  • C. The Teahouse of the August Moon
    The Teahouse of the August Moon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning Broadway comedy about post–World War II American occupation in Okinawa, later adapted into a successful film and musical.
  • D. Shakespeare Country
    Shakespeare Country is a popular tourist region in Warwickshire, England, centered on Stratford-upon-Avon and surrounding areas associated with the life and works of William Shakespeare.
  • E. The Mandarin
    The Mandarin is a notorious Marvel Comics supervillain, often portrayed as one of Iron Man’s primary adversaries and a mastermind wielding advanced technology or mystical power.
  • 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: “Shakespeare of the East”
Triple: [Tang Xianzu, alsoKnownAs, “Shakespeare of the East”]
Generated description
“Shakespeare of the East” is a nickname for Tang Xianzu, the renowned Ming dynasty playwright celebrated for his lyrical dramas such as “The Peony Pavilion.”
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “Shakespeare of the East”
Target entity description: “Shakespeare of the East” is a nickname for Tang Xianzu, the renowned Ming dynasty playwright celebrated for his lyrical dramas such as “The Peony Pavilion.”
  • A. Shakespeare-Wallah
    Shakespeare-Wallah is a 1965 English-language Indian drama film, directed by James Ivory and written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, that follows a traveling British theatre troupe in post-colonial India as they struggle to survive amid the rising popularity of Bollywood cinema.
  • B. Shakespeare; or, the Poet
    "Shakespeare; or, the Poet" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that examines William Shakespeare’s genius and significance as the archetypal poet, included as one of the portraits in his collection "Representative Men."
  • C. The Teahouse of the August Moon
    The Teahouse of the August Moon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning Broadway comedy about post–World War II American occupation in Okinawa, later adapted into a successful film and musical.
  • D. Shakespeare Country
    Shakespeare Country is a popular tourist region in Warwickshire, England, centered on Stratford-upon-Avon and surrounding areas associated with the life and works of William Shakespeare.
  • E. The Mandarin
    The Mandarin is a notorious Marvel Comics supervillain, often portrayed as one of Iron Man’s primary adversaries and a mastermind wielding advanced technology or mystical power.
  • 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_69ca82ac7fc081909b1398cf025423af completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3e8d90488190b57d1e748e272061 completed March 31, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc56c82824819082e93eddc40bfad1 completed March 31, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc5ca6efbc819082f4c643446da354 completed March 31, 2026, 11:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc5d6d93f08190b17d6c7a4fad2cf0 completed March 31, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:20 p.m.