Triple

T940764
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Japanese occupation of Singapore E20299 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Shōzō Sakurai
Shōzō Sakurai was an Imperial Japanese Army general who held a senior command role during World War II, including in the campaign involving the occupation of Singapore.
E224272 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: Shōzō Sakurai | Statement: [Japanese occupation of Singapore, commander, Shōzō Sakurai]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shōzō Sakurai
Context triple: [Japanese occupation of Singapore, commander, Shōzō Sakurai]
  • A. Shōji Nishimura
    Shōji Nishimura was an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II, noted for his role and death in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
  • B. Shigeo Nagashima
    Shigeo Nagashima is a legendary Japanese baseball player and manager, widely regarded as one of the greatest figures in Nippon Professional Baseball history.
  • C. Minoru Ōta
    Minoru Ōta was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the defense of the Oroku Peninsula during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II and became known for his final message praising the Okinawan people.
  • D. Hatazō Adachi
    Hatazō Adachi was a Japanese general of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, best known for commanding forces in the Pacific theater.
  • E. Shigetarō Shimada
    Shigetarō Shimada was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who served as Navy Minister and a key naval leader during World War II.
  • 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: Shōzō Sakurai
Triple: [Japanese occupation of Singapore, commander, Shōzō Sakurai]
Generated description
Shōzō Sakurai was an Imperial Japanese Army general who held a senior command role during World War II, including in the campaign involving the occupation of Singapore.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shōzō Sakurai
Target entity description: Shōzō Sakurai was an Imperial Japanese Army general who held a senior command role during World War II, including in the campaign involving the occupation of Singapore.
  • A. Shōji Nishimura
    Shōji Nishimura was an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral during World War II, noted for his role and death in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
  • B. Shigeo Nagashima
    Shigeo Nagashima is a legendary Japanese baseball player and manager, widely regarded as one of the greatest figures in Nippon Professional Baseball history.
  • C. Minoru Ōta
    Minoru Ōta was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the defense of the Oroku Peninsula during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II and became known for his final message praising the Okinawan people.
  • D. Hatazō Adachi
    Hatazō Adachi was a Japanese general of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, best known for commanding forces in the Pacific theater.
  • E. Shigetarō Shimada
    Shigetarō Shimada was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who served as Navy Minister and a key naval leader during World War II.
  • 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_69a493b0270c81909e6c9ce310f6aa55 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b38cc6888190b1d9043ec8fbcbc3 completed March 1, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae0a910d808190b20150e864ae9bc2 completed March 8, 2026, 11:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae0b15a1dc81908dfa980e86585673 completed March 8, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae0b9e7c64819093461c74b98e48ca completed March 8, 2026, 11:51 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.