Triple
T8938594
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Michael Aris |
E212838
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entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Lamas, Princes, and Brigands: Joseph Rock's Photographs of the Tibetan Borderlands
"Lamas, Princes, and Brigands: Joseph Rock's Photographs of the Tibetan Borderlands" is a scholarly illustrated volume by Michael Aris that presents and interprets explorer Joseph Rock’s early 20th-century photographic record of the Tibetan border regions.
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E767312
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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: Lamas, Princes, and Brigands: Joseph Rock's Photographs of the Tibetan Borderlands | Statement: [Michael Aris, notableWork, Lamas, Princes, and Brigands: Joseph Rock's Photographs of the Tibetan Borderlands]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lamas, Princes, and Brigands: Joseph Rock's Photographs of the Tibetan Borderlands Context triple: [Michael Aris, notableWork, Lamas, Princes, and Brigands: Joseph Rock's Photographs of the Tibetan Borderlands]
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A.
Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon
Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon is a genre-blending world music album by the Silk Road Ensemble that explores cross-cultural musical traditions inspired by the historic Silk Road.
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B.
A Line in the Himalayas
A Line in the Himalayas is a land art piece by Richard Long created by walking and marking a straight line across a Himalayan landscape, exemplifying his practice of using simple gestures in remote natural settings.
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C.
Seven Years in Tibet
Seven Years in Tibet is a 1997 biographical war drama film starring Brad Pitt that chronicles Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer’s transformative years in Tibet and friendship with the young Dalai Lama.
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D.
Aurel Stein’s second Central Asian expedition
Aurel Stein’s second Central Asian expedition was an early 20th-century archaeological and geographical journey across Central Asian deserts that yielded major discoveries of ancient manuscripts, art, and ruins along the Silk Road.
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E.
Travels in Tartary
Travels in Tartary is a classic 1930s travel narrative by British writer Peter Fleming, recounting his adventurous overland journey across remote regions of Central Asia.
- 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: Lamas, Princes, and Brigands: Joseph Rock's Photographs of the Tibetan Borderlands Triple: [Michael Aris, notableWork, Lamas, Princes, and Brigands: Joseph Rock's Photographs of the Tibetan Borderlands]
Generated description
"Lamas, Princes, and Brigands: Joseph Rock's Photographs of the Tibetan Borderlands" is a scholarly illustrated volume by Michael Aris that presents and interprets explorer Joseph Rock’s early 20th-century photographic record of the Tibetan border regions.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lamas, Princes, and Brigands: Joseph Rock's Photographs of the Tibetan Borderlands Target entity description: "Lamas, Princes, and Brigands: Joseph Rock's Photographs of the Tibetan Borderlands" is a scholarly illustrated volume by Michael Aris that presents and interprets explorer Joseph Rock’s early 20th-century photographic record of the Tibetan border regions.
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A.
Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon
Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon is a genre-blending world music album by the Silk Road Ensemble that explores cross-cultural musical traditions inspired by the historic Silk Road.
-
B.
A Line in the Himalayas
A Line in the Himalayas is a land art piece by Richard Long created by walking and marking a straight line across a Himalayan landscape, exemplifying his practice of using simple gestures in remote natural settings.
-
C.
Seven Years in Tibet
Seven Years in Tibet is a 1997 biographical war drama film starring Brad Pitt that chronicles Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer’s transformative years in Tibet and friendship with the young Dalai Lama.
-
D.
Aurel Stein’s second Central Asian expedition
Aurel Stein’s second Central Asian expedition was an early 20th-century archaeological and geographical journey across Central Asian deserts that yielded major discoveries of ancient manuscripts, art, and ruins along the Silk Road.
-
E.
Travels in Tartary
Travels in Tartary is a classic 1930s travel narrative by British writer Peter Fleming, recounting his adventurous overland journey across remote regions of Central Asia.
- 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_69ca839694c88190b324ffeb43d23b08 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cc66b57a348190979effe4f9998eb7 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 12:28 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cfc1eb308c81909f5be133c75ad568 |
completed | April 3, 2026, 1:34 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69cfc24b4fe481909b7c4f58b787a21e |
completed | April 3, 2026, 1:36 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69cfc33fbedc8190a8f04ec6f43891f0 |
completed | April 3, 2026, 1:40 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:58 p.m.