Triple

T14133085
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Life of Nicias E350217 entity
Predicate includedIn P1393 FINISHED
Object Moralia and Lives manuscript tradition
The Moralia and Lives manuscript tradition is the body of surviving handwritten copies and textual transmission history of Plutarch’s ethical essays (Moralia) and biographical works (Parallel Lives), through which texts like the Life of Nicias have been preserved.
E1082646 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: Moralia and Lives manuscript tradition | Statement: [Life of Nicias, includedIn, Moralia and Lives manuscript tradition]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Moralia and Lives manuscript tradition
Context triple: [Life of Nicias, includedIn, Moralia and Lives manuscript tradition]
  • A. History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages
    History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages is Étienne Gilson’s influential survey of the development and key figures of Christian philosophical thought from the early Church through the late medieval period.
  • B. Historia Sacra
    Historia Sacra is a late 4th-century Latin Christian historical work by Sulpicius Severus that narrates biblical and early church history in a concise, classical style.
  • C. Class of Moral, Historical and Philological Sciences
    The Class of Moral, Historical and Philological Sciences is a scholarly division of the Accademia dei Lincei dedicated to research and advancement in the humanities, including ethics, history, and language studies.
  • D. Codex Nuttall
    Codex Nuttall is a pre-Columbian Mixtec pictographic manuscript that records the genealogy, history, and religious narratives of Mixtec rulers and communities in what is now southern Mexico.
  • E. Codex Boturini
    Codex Boturini is a pre-Hispanic Aztec pictorial manuscript that chronicles the Mexica migration and the legendary origins of Tenochtitlan.
  • 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: Moralia and Lives manuscript tradition
Triple: [Life of Nicias, includedIn, Moralia and Lives manuscript tradition]
Generated description
The Moralia and Lives manuscript tradition is the body of surviving handwritten copies and textual transmission history of Plutarch’s ethical essays (Moralia) and biographical works (Parallel Lives), through which texts like the Life of Nicias have been preserved.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Moralia and Lives manuscript tradition
Target entity description: The Moralia and Lives manuscript tradition is the body of surviving handwritten copies and textual transmission history of Plutarch’s ethical essays (Moralia) and biographical works (Parallel Lives), through which texts like the Life of Nicias have been preserved.
  • A. History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages
    History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages is Étienne Gilson’s influential survey of the development and key figures of Christian philosophical thought from the early Church through the late medieval period.
  • B. Historia Sacra
    Historia Sacra is a late 4th-century Latin Christian historical work by Sulpicius Severus that narrates biblical and early church history in a concise, classical style.
  • C. Class of Moral, Historical and Philological Sciences
    The Class of Moral, Historical and Philological Sciences is a scholarly division of the Accademia dei Lincei dedicated to research and advancement in the humanities, including ethics, history, and language studies.
  • D. Codex Nuttall
    Codex Nuttall is a pre-Columbian Mixtec pictographic manuscript that records the genealogy, history, and religious narratives of Mixtec rulers and communities in what is now southern Mexico.
  • E. Codex Boturini
    Codex Boturini is a pre-Hispanic Aztec pictorial manuscript that chronicles the Mexica migration and the legendary origins of Tenochtitlan.
  • 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_69d827865f608190b311820428ae027b completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de610cece88190b4a86500677e5938 completed April 14, 2026, 3:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fcdf1288b48190a382732fac13aaf7 completed May 7, 2026, 6:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fce0dec2488190be9c24d3744e7243 completed May 7, 2026, 6:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fce206b0588190a0f4b24231d3c365 completed May 7, 2026, 7:03 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 11:34 p.m.