Triple

T8052510
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Xu Guangqi E187708 entity
Predicate courtesyName P570 FINISHED
Object Zixian
Zixian is the courtesy name of Xu Guangqi, a prominent late Ming dynasty Chinese scholar-official, scientist, and collaborator with Jesuit missionaries such as Matteo Ricci.
 E706925 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: Zixian | Statement: [Xu Guangqi, courtesyName, Zixian]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Zixian
Context triple: [Xu Guangqi, courtesyName, Zixian]
  • A. Yixian
    Yixian is a historic county-level city in China’s Anhui province, noted for its well-preserved ancient villages and traditional Huizhou architecture.
  • B. Xingzhen
    Xingzhen was the personal given name of Empress Dowager Cixi, the powerful de facto ruler of the late Qing dynasty in China.
  • C. Hongxi
    Hongxi was the brief era name of a Ming dynasty emperor whose short reign marked a transitional period in early 15th-century China.
  • D. Yuanxin
    Yuanxin is the given name of Mao Yuanxin, a Chinese political figure known for being the nephew of Mao Zedong and a prominent youth leader during the Cultural Revolution.
  • E. Zhenjin
    Zhenjin was the designated heir and favored son of Kublai Khan, known for his Confucian education and role in the early Yuan dynasty’s administration before his premature death.
  • 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: Zixian
Triple: [Xu Guangqi, courtesyName, Zixian]
Generated description
Zixian is the courtesy name of Xu Guangqi, a prominent late Ming dynasty Chinese scholar-official, scientist, and collaborator with Jesuit missionaries such as Matteo Ricci.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Zixian
Target entity description: Zixian is the courtesy name of Xu Guangqi, a prominent late Ming dynasty Chinese scholar-official, scientist, and collaborator with Jesuit missionaries such as Matteo Ricci.
  • A. Yixian
    Yixian is a historic county-level city in China’s Anhui province, noted for its well-preserved ancient villages and traditional Huizhou architecture.
  • B. Xingzhen
    Xingzhen was the personal given name of Empress Dowager Cixi, the powerful de facto ruler of the late Qing dynasty in China.
  • C. Hongxi
    Hongxi was the brief era name of a Ming dynasty emperor whose short reign marked a transitional period in early 15th-century China.
  • D. Yuanxin
    Yuanxin is the given name of Mao Yuanxin, a Chinese political figure known for being the nephew of Mao Zedong and a prominent youth leader during the Cultural Revolution.
  • E. Zhenjin
    Zhenjin was the designated heir and favored son of Kublai Khan, known for his Confucian education and role in the early Yuan dynasty’s administration before his premature death.
  • 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_69ca82b15e948190a62fd7af5218426a completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3f7c425c8190aa1b2f534afeb58c completed March 31, 2026, 3:29 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc572058048190996fa77774bf44ba completed March 31, 2026, 11:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc58edb31881909b6efd2fbbc2480e completed March 31, 2026, 11:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc5cd22b188190b8a31e8e8ac8b98d completed March 31, 2026, 11:46 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:24 p.m.