Triple

T96659
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Shanghai (1937) E1946 entity
Predicate result P374 FINISHED
Object Japanese occupation of Shanghai
The Japanese occupation of Shanghai was the period during the Second Sino-Japanese War when Imperial Japan controlled and administered Shanghai, marked by military rule, economic exploitation, and widespread human rights abuses against the Chinese population.
E16430 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 Shanghai | Statement: [Battle of Shanghai (1937), result, Japanese occupation of Shanghai]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Japanese occupation of Shanghai
Context triple: [Battle of Shanghai (1937), result, Japanese occupation of Shanghai]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Nanjing Massacre
    The Nanjing Massacre was a six-week period of mass killing and atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army against Chinese soldiers and civilians in the city of Nanjing in late 1937, and is remembered as one of the worst war crimes of the 20th century.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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 Shanghai
Triple: [Battle of Shanghai (1937), result, Japanese occupation of Shanghai]
Generated description
The Japanese occupation of Shanghai was the period during the Second Sino-Japanese War when Imperial Japan controlled and administered Shanghai, marked by military rule, economic exploitation, and widespread human rights abuses against the Chinese population.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Japanese occupation of Shanghai
Target entity description: The Japanese occupation of Shanghai was the period during the Second Sino-Japanese War when Imperial Japan controlled and administered Shanghai, marked by military rule, economic exploitation, and widespread human rights abuses against the Chinese population.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Nanjing Massacre
    The Nanjing Massacre was a six-week period of mass killing and atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army against Chinese soldiers and civilians in the city of Nanjing in late 1937, and is remembered as one of the worst war crimes of the 20th century.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69a2b4b7ad108190b135179e485f4d5c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2b628124c8190aa1c3c7d00ccf65d completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2b67f72fc8190be99eaee8cb19057 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:33 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:09 a.m.