Triple

T8751008
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject South Manchuria Railway Company E207953 entity
Predicate operated P1688 FINISHED
Object Mantetsu Research Institute
Mantetsu Research Institute was a research and development institution of the South Manchuria Railway Company in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, focusing on economic, industrial, and regional studies to support colonial administration and railway operations.
E755243 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: Mantetsu Research Institute | Statement: [South Manchuria Railway Company, operated, Mantetsu Research Institute]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mantetsu Research Institute
Context triple: [South Manchuria Railway Company, operated, Mantetsu Research Institute]
  • A. Ibuka Laboratory
    Ibuka Laboratory was an electronics research workshop in postwar Tokyo that became the foundation for what would later grow into Sony.
  • B. Kitasato Institute
    The Kitasato Institute is a Japanese medical research and educational organization renowned for its pioneering work in infectious diseases, immunology, and public health.
  • C. Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences
    The Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences is a major Japanese research center specializing in advanced studies of the Earth’s systems, including climate, oceans, and geophysics.
  • D. Nishinippon Institute of Technology
    Nishinippon Institute of Technology is a Japanese higher education institution specializing in engineering and technology, located in Fukuoka Prefecture.
  • E. National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan
    The National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan is a national research organization that oversees major scientific institutes and facilities in fields such as astronomy, physics, and biology.
  • 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: Mantetsu Research Institute
Triple: [South Manchuria Railway Company, operated, Mantetsu Research Institute]
Generated description
Mantetsu Research Institute was a research and development institution of the South Manchuria Railway Company in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, focusing on economic, industrial, and regional studies to support colonial administration and railway operations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mantetsu Research Institute
Target entity description: Mantetsu Research Institute was a research and development institution of the South Manchuria Railway Company in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, focusing on economic, industrial, and regional studies to support colonial administration and railway operations.
  • A. Ibuka Laboratory
    Ibuka Laboratory was an electronics research workshop in postwar Tokyo that became the foundation for what would later grow into Sony.
  • B. Kitasato Institute
    The Kitasato Institute is a Japanese medical research and educational organization renowned for its pioneering work in infectious diseases, immunology, and public health.
  • C. Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences
    The Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences is a major Japanese research center specializing in advanced studies of the Earth’s systems, including climate, oceans, and geophysics.
  • D. Nishinippon Institute of Technology
    Nishinippon Institute of Technology is a Japanese higher education institution specializing in engineering and technology, located in Fukuoka Prefecture.
  • E. National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan
    The National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan is a national research organization that oversees major scientific institutes and facilities in fields such as astronomy, physics, and biology.
  • 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_69ca835bb2bc819084bb5906cb6ef7f8 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc5da774f4819099e5bfd12973d946 completed March 31, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf431db5a88190a579b43370a8e887 completed April 3, 2026, 4:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf45ff020c81909bfe20de50d3661a completed April 3, 2026, 4:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf46ab85088190b12e6eb969f2c65b completed April 3, 2026, 4:48 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:39 p.m.