Triple

T1124972
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Persians E24698 entity
Predicate capitalOfHistoricalEmpire P11792 FINISHED
Object Ctesiphon
Ctesiphon was an ancient metropolis on the Tigris River that served for centuries as the principal capital of the Parthian and later Sasanian Persian empires.
 E134142 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: Ctesiphon | Statement: [Persians, capitalOfHistoricalEmpire, Ctesiphon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ctesiphon
Context triple: [Persians, capitalOfHistoricalEmpire, Ctesiphon]
  • A. Samarra
    Samarra is an ancient Iraqi city on the Tigris River renowned for its monumental Islamic architecture, especially the spiral minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra.
  • B. Edessa
    Edessa is a historic city in northern Greece renowned for its picturesque waterfalls and ancient heritage.
  • C. Edessa
    Edessa was an ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia, renowned as a major early center of Syriac Christianity and culture.
  • D. Susa
    Susa was an ancient city in southwestern Iran that served as a major political and administrative center for several empires, including the Achaemenid Persians.
  • E. Turkmenabat
    Turkmenabat is one of the largest cities in Turkmenistan, serving as an important industrial, transport, and cultural center in the country’s east near the border with Uzbekistan.
  • 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: Ctesiphon
Triple: [Persians, capitalOfHistoricalEmpire, Ctesiphon]
Generated description
Ctesiphon was an ancient metropolis on the Tigris River that served for centuries as the principal capital of the Parthian and later Sasanian Persian empires.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ctesiphon
Target entity description: Ctesiphon was an ancient metropolis on the Tigris River that served for centuries as the principal capital of the Parthian and later Sasanian Persian empires.
  • A. Samarra
    Samarra is an ancient Iraqi city on the Tigris River renowned for its monumental Islamic architecture, especially the spiral minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra.
  • B. Edessa
    Edessa is a historic city in northern Greece renowned for its picturesque waterfalls and ancient heritage.
  • C. Edessa
    Edessa was an ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia, renowned as a major early center of Syriac Christianity and culture.
  • D. Susa
    Susa was an ancient city in southwestern Iran that served as a major political and administrative center for several empires, including the Achaemenid Persians.
  • E. Turkmenabat
    Turkmenabat is one of the largest cities in Turkmenistan, serving as an important industrial, transport, and cultural center in the country’s east near the border with Uzbekistan.
  • 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_69a4940712c88190aa244f3fc6070a65 completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bf0ecd448190affb5c24c3520732 completed March 1, 2026, 10:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac667127008190b2aa1f3aafc87340 completed March 7, 2026, 5:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac66f0e874819092d51913f08905d4 completed March 7, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac676cb9a08190a83d47de80126677 completed March 7, 2026, 5:59 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.