Triple
T14159890
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | early Christians in Bithynia |
E350908
|
entity |
| Predicate | knownFrom |
P4092
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Pliny the Younger’s letters |
E70337
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Pliny the Younger’s letters | Statement: [early Christians in Bithynia, knownFrom, Pliny the Younger’s letters]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pliny the Younger’s letters Context triple: [early Christians in Bithynia, knownFrom, Pliny the Younger’s letters]
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A.
Pliny the Younger
chosen
Pliny the Younger was a Roman lawyer, author, and magistrate best known for his surviving letters, which provide a vivid picture of Roman administrative life and include eyewitness accounts of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
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B.
Cicero’s letters
Cicero’s letters are a collection of personal and political correspondence by the Roman orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero, offering a vivid primary source on late Republican Roman history, culture, and rhetoric.
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C.
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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D.
Correspondence of Paul and Seneca
The Correspondence of Paul and Seneca is a collection of forged letters purportedly exchanged between the Apostle Paul and the Stoic philosopher Seneca, reflecting early Christian attempts to link apostolic teaching with Greco-Roman intellectual authority.
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E.
Trajan’s rescript to Pliny
Trajan’s rescript to Pliny is a famous early 2nd-century Roman imperial letter that set a key precedent for how provincial governors should investigate and punish Christians.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69fd324772e4819092aef7826b39b144 |
completed | May 8, 2026, 12:45 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:59 a.m.