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]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.