Triple

T11065400
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sack of Seleucia (165) E261609 entity
Predicate conflictInvolves P10155 FINISHED
Object Parthian garrison of Seleucia
The Parthian garrison of Seleucia was the military force stationed by the Parthian Empire to control and defend the strategically important city of Seleucia on the Tigris.
E903146 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: Parthian garrison of Seleucia | Statement: [Sack of Seleucia (165), conflictInvolves, Parthian garrison of Seleucia]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Parthian garrison of Seleucia
Context triple: [Sack of Seleucia (165), conflictInvolves, Parthian garrison of Seleucia]
  • A. Sack of Seleucia (165)
    The Sack of Seleucia (165) was a devastating Roman assault and looting of the major Mesopotamian city of Seleucia on the Tigris during Lucius Verus’s eastern campaign, contributing to the city’s decline and the wider destabilization of the Parthian Empire.
  • B. Byzantine garrison of Nicomedia
    The Byzantine garrison of Nicomedia was the imperial military force stationed in the strategically important city of Nicomedia, tasked with defending this key stronghold in northwestern Asia Minor.
  • C. Parthian capture of Edessa
    The Parthian capture of Edessa was a key early victory in which Parthian forces seized the strategically important city of Edessa from Roman influence, helping trigger a broader Roman–Parthian conflict in the mid-2nd century.
  • D. Parthian campaign of Severus Alexander
    The Parthian campaign of Severus Alexander was a Roman military expedition led by Emperor Severus Alexander against the Sasanian (often termed Parthian) Empire in the early 3rd century, marked by limited success and later overshadowed by his troubles on the German frontier.
  • E. Siege of Halicarnassus
    The Siege of Halicarnassus was a key early battle in Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Persian Empire, in which he captured the heavily fortified Carian capital on the coast of Asia Minor.
  • 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: Parthian garrison of Seleucia
Triple: [Sack of Seleucia (165), conflictInvolves, Parthian garrison of Seleucia]
Generated description
The Parthian garrison of Seleucia was the military force stationed by the Parthian Empire to control and defend the strategically important city of Seleucia on the Tigris.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Parthian garrison of Seleucia
Target entity description: The Parthian garrison of Seleucia was the military force stationed by the Parthian Empire to control and defend the strategically important city of Seleucia on the Tigris.
  • A. Sack of Seleucia (165)
    The Sack of Seleucia (165) was a devastating Roman assault and looting of the major Mesopotamian city of Seleucia on the Tigris during Lucius Verus’s eastern campaign, contributing to the city’s decline and the wider destabilization of the Parthian Empire.
  • B. Byzantine garrison of Nicomedia
    The Byzantine garrison of Nicomedia was the imperial military force stationed in the strategically important city of Nicomedia, tasked with defending this key stronghold in northwestern Asia Minor.
  • C. Parthian capture of Edessa
    The Parthian capture of Edessa was a key early victory in which Parthian forces seized the strategically important city of Edessa from Roman influence, helping trigger a broader Roman–Parthian conflict in the mid-2nd century.
  • D. Parthian campaign of Severus Alexander
    The Parthian campaign of Severus Alexander was a Roman military expedition led by Emperor Severus Alexander against the Sasanian (often termed Parthian) Empire in the early 3rd century, marked by limited success and later overshadowed by his troubles on the German frontier.
  • E. Siege of Halicarnassus
    The Siege of Halicarnassus was a key early battle in Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Persian Empire, in which he captured the heavily fortified Carian capital on the coast of Asia Minor.
  • 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_69d6aa98650481908609c7c56bfa7902 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d798edcab881909da1ba0394020ef8 completed April 9, 2026, 12:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e3c8977f98819082dec025e92782da completed April 18, 2026, 6:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e3cae07b648190b4c0d2514712d6bd completed April 18, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3cf1f508c81909b4ca8131b7fc9ee completed April 18, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:26 p.m.