Triple

T8214665
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject World War II bombing E191903 entity
Predicate hasNotableEvent P259 FINISHED
Object bombing of Nanjing
The bombing of Nanjing was a World War II aerial campaign in which Japanese forces heavily bombarded China’s then-capital, causing extensive civilian casualties and destruction.
E718903 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: bombing of Nanjing | Statement: [World War II bombing, hasNotableEvent, bombing of Nanjing]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: bombing of Nanjing
Context triple: [World War II bombing, hasNotableEvent, bombing of Nanjing]
  • A. Nanjing Massacre
    The Nanjing Massacre was a six-week period of mass killing and atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army against Chinese soldiers and civilians in the city of Nanjing in late 1937, and is remembered as one of the worst war crimes of the 20th century.
  • B. bombing of Chongqing
    The bombing of Chongqing was a prolonged Japanese aerial campaign during the Second Sino-Japanese War that devastated China’s wartime capital and caused massive civilian casualties.
  • C. Battle of Nanjing
    The Battle of Nanjing was a major 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War engagement in which Japanese forces captured China’s then-capital Nanjing, leading directly to the Nanjing Massacre.
  • D. Shanghai massacre of 1927
    The Shanghai massacre of 1927 was a violent purge in which Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist forces brutally suppressed and killed thousands of Communists and labor activists in Shanghai, decisively rupturing the First United Front and escalating the Chinese Civil War.
  • E. Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal
    The Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal was a post–World War II military court established by the Chinese government to prosecute Japanese officers responsible for atrocities committed during the Nanjing Massacre.
  • 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: bombing of Nanjing
Triple: [World War II bombing, hasNotableEvent, bombing of Nanjing]
Generated description
The bombing of Nanjing was a World War II aerial campaign in which Japanese forces heavily bombarded China’s then-capital, causing extensive civilian casualties and destruction.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: bombing of Nanjing
Target entity description: The bombing of Nanjing was a World War II aerial campaign in which Japanese forces heavily bombarded China’s then-capital, causing extensive civilian casualties and destruction.
  • A. Nanjing Massacre
    The Nanjing Massacre was a six-week period of mass killing and atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army against Chinese soldiers and civilians in the city of Nanjing in late 1937, and is remembered as one of the worst war crimes of the 20th century.
  • B. bombing of Chongqing
    The bombing of Chongqing was a prolonged Japanese aerial campaign during the Second Sino-Japanese War that devastated China’s wartime capital and caused massive civilian casualties.
  • C. Battle of Nanjing
    The Battle of Nanjing was a major 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War engagement in which Japanese forces captured China’s then-capital Nanjing, leading directly to the Nanjing Massacre.
  • D. Shanghai massacre of 1927
    The Shanghai massacre of 1927 was a violent purge in which Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist forces brutally suppressed and killed thousands of Communists and labor activists in Shanghai, decisively rupturing the First United Front and escalating the Chinese Civil War.
  • E. Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal
    The Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal was a post–World War II military court established by the Chinese government to prosecute Japanese officers responsible for atrocities committed during the Nanjing Massacre.
  • 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_69ca82c8c054819087fedd9a5436b8a3 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb776c5cd081908259b1c3d12285de completed March 31, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ccedf320c08190ada5ae5c47d059eb completed April 1, 2026, 10:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ccf1bbbd2481908400436e05911326 completed April 1, 2026, 10:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd05d668ac819098195ba5ec26ec76 completed April 1, 2026, 11:47 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:44 p.m.