Triple
T14159749
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Gaius Caecilius |
E350904
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entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius
Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius are Pliny the Younger's famous eyewitness accounts of the AD 79 eruption that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, written in correspondence with the historian Tacitus.
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E1084155
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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: Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius | Statement: [Gaius Caecilius, notableWork, Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius Context triple: [Gaius Caecilius, notableWork, Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius]
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A.
The Last Days of Pompeii
The Last Days of Pompeii is a 1935 American historical drama film depicting the lives of several characters in the Roman city of Pompeii leading up to its destruction by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
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B.
Pliny the Elder’s Natural History
Pliny the Elder’s *Natural History* is a vast first-century Roman encyclopedia that compiles contemporary knowledge on subjects ranging from geography and zoology to art and mineralogy.
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C.
Letter to Pompeius Geminus
Letter to Pompeius Geminus is an epistolary treatise by Dionysius of Halicarnassus in which he defends and explains his approach to the study and imitation of classical Attic Greek prose.
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D.
Historia Calamitatum
Historia Calamitatum is Peter Abelard’s autobiographical letter recounting his intellectual career, love affair with Héloïse, and subsequent misfortunes, and is a key text of 12th-century medieval literature.
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E.
Epistulae ex Ponto
Epistulae ex Ponto is a collection of elegiac letters by the Roman poet Ovid, written during his exile on the Black Sea and addressed to friends and family in Rome.
- 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: Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius Triple: [Gaius Caecilius, notableWork, Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius]
Generated description
Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius are Pliny the Younger's famous eyewitness accounts of the AD 79 eruption that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, written in correspondence with the historian Tacitus.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius Target entity description: Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius are Pliny the Younger's famous eyewitness accounts of the AD 79 eruption that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, written in correspondence with the historian Tacitus.
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A.
The Last Days of Pompeii
The Last Days of Pompeii is a 1935 American historical drama film depicting the lives of several characters in the Roman city of Pompeii leading up to its destruction by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
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B.
Pliny the Elder’s Natural History
Pliny the Elder’s *Natural History* is a vast first-century Roman encyclopedia that compiles contemporary knowledge on subjects ranging from geography and zoology to art and mineralogy.
-
C.
Letter to Pompeius Geminus
Letter to Pompeius Geminus is an epistolary treatise by Dionysius of Halicarnassus in which he defends and explains his approach to the study and imitation of classical Attic Greek prose.
-
D.
Historia Calamitatum
Historia Calamitatum is Peter Abelard’s autobiographical letter recounting his intellectual career, love affair with Héloïse, and subsequent misfortunes, and is a key text of 12th-century medieval literature.
-
E.
Epistulae ex Ponto
Epistulae ex Ponto is a collection of elegiac letters by the Roman poet Ovid, written during his exile on the Black Sea and addressed to friends and family in Rome.
- 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_69d8278775fc8190b0802d22ca2f495d |
completed | April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de61393f308190bb357e2bd1916f94 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 3:46 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fcf7f166988190a96d01fb4bd1438e |
completed | May 7, 2026, 8:37 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69fd05f31d9c81908b12befa499fae08 |
completed | May 7, 2026, 9:36 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69fd068196fc8190b0c5620c754d2a5c |
completed | May 7, 2026, 9:39 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:58 a.m.