Triple

T96679
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Shanghai (1937) E1946 entity
Predicate involvedForce P1063 FINISHED
Object Chinese 87th Division
The Chinese 87th Division was an elite National Revolutionary Army infantry unit of the Republic of China that played a prominent frontline role in major early battles against Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
E16911 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: Chinese 87th Division | Statement: [Battle of Shanghai (1937), involvedForce, Chinese 87th Division]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chinese 87th Division
Context triple: [Battle of Shanghai (1937), involvedForce, Chinese 87th Division]
  • A. New Fourth Army
    The New Fourth Army was a major Chinese Communist guerrilla force that fought against Japanese occupation and Nationalist rivals during the Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War.
  • B. Japanese Kwantung Army
    The Japanese Kwantung Army was a powerful and aggressive Imperial Japanese Army group stationed in Manchuria that played a central role in Japan’s expansionist campaigns in East Asia before and during World War II.
  • C. 29th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army
    The 29th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army was a Chinese military formation best known for its frontline role resisting Japanese forces at the outset of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • D. People's Liberation Army
    The People's Liberation Army is the unified military organization of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party, encompassing its land, sea, air, rocket, and strategic support forces.
  • E. Japanese China Garrison Army
    The Japanese China Garrison Army was an Imperial Japanese Army formation stationed in China that played a central role in the outbreak and early fighting of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • 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: Chinese 87th Division
Triple: [Battle of Shanghai (1937), involvedForce, Chinese 87th Division]
Generated description
The Chinese 87th Division was an elite National Revolutionary Army infantry unit of the Republic of China that played a prominent frontline role in major early battles against Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chinese 87th Division
Target entity description: The Chinese 87th Division was an elite National Revolutionary Army infantry unit of the Republic of China that played a prominent frontline role in major early battles against Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • A. New Fourth Army
    The New Fourth Army was a major Chinese Communist guerrilla force that fought against Japanese occupation and Nationalist rivals during the Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War.
  • B. Japanese Kwantung Army
    The Japanese Kwantung Army was a powerful and aggressive Imperial Japanese Army group stationed in Manchuria that played a central role in Japan’s expansionist campaigns in East Asia before and during World War II.
  • C. 29th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army
    The 29th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army was a Chinese military formation best known for its frontline role resisting Japanese forces at the outset of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • D. People's Liberation Army
    The People's Liberation Army is the unified military organization of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party, encompassing its land, sea, air, rocket, and strategic support forces.
  • E. Japanese China Garrison Army
    The Japanese China Garrison Army was an Imperial Japanese Army formation stationed in China that played a central role in the outbreak and early fighting of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • 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_69a256a7957c8190bf9924eff7572b95 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2b85cc6b881909e2c13e70b24d934 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2bb0254fc8190b75544e32e81d694 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2bebed99481908eccf03360d90588 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:09 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:09 a.m.