Triple

T8618304
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Zhou state E204097 entity
Predicate ethnicGroup P194 FINISHED
Object Zhou people
The Zhou people were an ancient Chinese ethnic group that founded and ruled the Zhou dynasty, which laid much of the cultural and political foundation of classical Chinese civilization.
E746746 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: Zhou people | Statement: [Zhou state, ethnicGroup, Zhou people]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zhou people
Context triple: [Zhou state, ethnicGroup, Zhou people]
  • A. Chu people
    The Chu people were an ancient ethnic group in southern China who formed the powerful Chu state during the Zhou dynasty, known for their distinct culture, shamanistic traditions, and influential contributions to early Chinese poetry and art.
  • B. Hakka people
    The Hakka people are a Han Chinese subgroup known for their distinct language, migratory history, and rich cultural traditions spread across southern China and the global Chinese diaspora.
  • C. Chin people
    The Chin people are an ethnic group from the hilly regions of western Myanmar and neighboring areas, known for their distinct languages, cultures, and Christian-majority communities.
  • D. Jinuo people
    The Jinuo people are a small ethnic minority group in China, primarily residing in the mountainous forests of Xishuangbanna in Yunnan Province, known for their distinct language, traditional agriculture, and rich animist cultural practices.
  • E. Longgu people
    The Longgu people are an indigenous ethnic group of the Solomon Islands, traditionally inhabiting parts of Guadalcanal and nearby areas and known for their distinct Austronesian language and local cultural practices.
  • 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: Zhou people
Triple: [Zhou state, ethnicGroup, Zhou people]
Generated description
The Zhou people were an ancient Chinese ethnic group that founded and ruled the Zhou dynasty, which laid much of the cultural and political foundation of classical Chinese civilization.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zhou people
Target entity description: The Zhou people were an ancient Chinese ethnic group that founded and ruled the Zhou dynasty, which laid much of the cultural and political foundation of classical Chinese civilization.
  • A. Chu people
    The Chu people were an ancient ethnic group in southern China who formed the powerful Chu state during the Zhou dynasty, known for their distinct culture, shamanistic traditions, and influential contributions to early Chinese poetry and art.
  • B. Hakka people
    The Hakka people are a Han Chinese subgroup known for their distinct language, migratory history, and rich cultural traditions spread across southern China and the global Chinese diaspora.
  • C. Chin people
    The Chin people are an ethnic group from the hilly regions of western Myanmar and neighboring areas, known for their distinct languages, cultures, and Christian-majority communities.
  • D. Jinuo people
    The Jinuo people are a small ethnic minority group in China, primarily residing in the mountainous forests of Xishuangbanna in Yunnan Province, known for their distinct language, traditional agriculture, and rich animist cultural practices.
  • E. Longgu people
    The Longgu people are an indigenous ethnic group of the Solomon Islands, traditionally inhabiting parts of Guadalcanal and nearby areas and known for their distinct Austronesian language and local cultural practices.
  • 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_69ca832ceab8819096e4a9f546695079 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc4712e74c81908b607a0ab2f9a361 completed March 31, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cebbcb910881909088da53c6e31ae3 completed April 2, 2026, 6:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cebcc22d208190801b4ec58614dfcb completed April 2, 2026, 7 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cebdf3f288819088d83165c741d092 completed April 2, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:26 p.m.