Triple

T96627
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marco Polo Bridge Incident E1945 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object Japanese occupation of Manchuria
The Japanese occupation of Manchuria was Japan’s 1931–1932 military seizure and establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo in northeastern China, marking a major early step in its expansionist aggression in East Asia.
E15799 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: Japanese occupation of Manchuria | Statement: [Marco Polo Bridge Incident, precededBy, Japanese occupation of Manchuria]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Japanese occupation of Manchuria
Context triple: [Marco Polo Bridge Incident, precededBy, Japanese occupation of Manchuria]
  • A. Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
    The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) was a major conflict between China and Japan that became one of the largest and bloodiest theaters of World War II in East Asia.
  • B. Soviet–Japanese War (1945)
    The Soviet–Japanese War of 1945 was the brief but decisive final campaign of World War II in Asia, in which the Soviet Union invaded Japanese-held Manchuria and other territories, hastening Japan’s surrender.
  • C. Marco Polo Bridge Incident
    The Marco Polo Bridge Incident was a 1937 armed clash between Japanese and Chinese troops near Beijing that escalated into full-scale war between Japan and China.
  • D. Korea under Japanese rule
    Korea under Japanese rule was the period from 1910 to 1945 when the Korean Peninsula was annexed and governed as a colony of the Japanese Empire, marked by political repression, cultural assimilation policies, and economic exploitation.
  • E. Taiwan under Japanese rule
    Taiwan under Japanese rule was the period from 1895 to 1945 when Taiwan was a Japanese colony, during which Japan implemented extensive political, economic, and educational reforms that significantly transformed the island’s infrastructure and society.
  • 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: Japanese occupation of Manchuria
Triple: [Marco Polo Bridge Incident, precededBy, Japanese occupation of Manchuria]
Generated description
The Japanese occupation of Manchuria was Japan’s 1931–1932 military seizure and establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo in northeastern China, marking a major early step in its expansionist aggression in East Asia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Japanese occupation of Manchuria
Target entity description: The Japanese occupation of Manchuria was Japan’s 1931–1932 military seizure and establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo in northeastern China, marking a major early step in its expansionist aggression in East Asia.
  • A. Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
    The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) was a major conflict between China and Japan that became one of the largest and bloodiest theaters of World War II in East Asia.
  • B. Soviet–Japanese War (1945)
    The Soviet–Japanese War of 1945 was the brief but decisive final campaign of World War II in Asia, in which the Soviet Union invaded Japanese-held Manchuria and other territories, hastening Japan’s surrender.
  • C. Marco Polo Bridge Incident
    The Marco Polo Bridge Incident was a 1937 armed clash between Japanese and Chinese troops near Beijing that escalated into full-scale war between Japan and China.
  • D. Korea under Japanese rule
    Korea under Japanese rule was the period from 1910 to 1945 when the Korean Peninsula was annexed and governed as a colony of the Japanese Empire, marked by political repression, cultural assimilation policies, and economic exploitation.
  • E. Taiwan under Japanese rule
    Taiwan under Japanese rule was the period from 1895 to 1945 when Taiwan was a Japanese colony, during which Japan implemented extensive political, economic, and educational reforms that significantly transformed the island’s infrastructure and society.
  • 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_69a24d4862f881908cc8b89d3a78031d completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:04 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24fd5cecc8190aca5fb4c4fe91a19 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2b014ab2c8190bcef8382280932dc completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2b0bd233c81908f3595abdfa51666 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2b122a168819088be9e5455a1aac1 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:10 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:09 a.m.