Triple

T13220786
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pharnabazus II E314744 entity
Predicate historicalSource P2296 FINISHED
Object Cornelius Nepos
Cornelius Nepos was a Roman biographer and historian of the 1st century BC, best known for his work "De Viris Illustribus" ("On Famous Men"), which profiled notable Greek and Roman figures.
E1030993 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: Cornelius Nepos | Statement: [Pharnabazus II, historicalSource, Cornelius Nepos]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cornelius Nepos
Context triple: [Pharnabazus II, historicalSource, Cornelius Nepos]
  • A. Plutarch
    Plutarch was a Greek biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist philosopher best known for his "Parallel Lives" and "Moralia," which profoundly influenced later historiography and literature.
  • B. Valerius Maximus
    Valerius Maximus was a 1st-century AD Roman writer best known for his work "Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium," a collection of memorable deeds and sayings used as a moral and rhetorical source.
  • C. Dionysius of Halicarnassus
    Dionysius of Halicarnassus was a Greek historian and rhetorician of the 1st century BC, best known for his work "Roman Antiquities," which offers a detailed account of early Roman history and institutions.
  • D. Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus
    Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus was a Roman usurper who briefly claimed the imperial throne during the Crisis of the Third Century.
  • E. Julius Capitolinus
    Julius Capitolinus is a purported Roman biographer traditionally credited as one of the authors of the Historia Augusta, a late antique collection of imperial biographies.
  • 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: Cornelius Nepos
Triple: [Pharnabazus II, historicalSource, Cornelius Nepos]
Generated description
Cornelius Nepos was a Roman biographer and historian of the 1st century BC, best known for his work "De Viris Illustribus" ("On Famous Men"), which profiled notable Greek and Roman figures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cornelius Nepos
Target entity description: Cornelius Nepos was a Roman biographer and historian of the 1st century BC, best known for his work "De Viris Illustribus" ("On Famous Men"), which profiled notable Greek and Roman figures.
  • A. Plutarch
    Plutarch was a Greek biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist philosopher best known for his "Parallel Lives" and "Moralia," which profoundly influenced later historiography and literature.
  • B. Valerius Maximus
    Valerius Maximus was a 1st-century AD Roman writer best known for his work "Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium," a collection of memorable deeds and sayings used as a moral and rhetorical source.
  • C. Dionysius of Halicarnassus
    Dionysius of Halicarnassus was a Greek historian and rhetorician of the 1st century BC, best known for his work "Roman Antiquities," which offers a detailed account of early Roman history and institutions.
  • D. Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus
    Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus was a Roman usurper who briefly claimed the imperial throne during the Crisis of the Third Century.
  • E. Julius Capitolinus
    Julius Capitolinus is a purported Roman biographer traditionally credited as one of the authors of the Historia Augusta, a late antique collection of imperial biographies.
  • 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_69d806affc688190a25b6ccc588e9c72 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98cf581508190883033f0c961736a completed April 10, 2026, 11:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f70a31c8748190a24256a7dd1e346b completed May 3, 2026, 8:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f70bc5111c8190ae5b098c806bb845 completed May 3, 2026, 8:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f70ca343f08190b6484f464ed40810 completed May 3, 2026, 8:51 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:18 p.m.