Triple
T14159891
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | early Christians in Bithynia |
E350908
|
entity |
| Predicate | knownFrom |
P4092
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Pliny the Younger’s correspondence with Trajan |
E1084158
|
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 correspondence with Trajan | Statement: [early Christians in Bithynia, knownFrom, Pliny the Younger’s correspondence with Trajan]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pliny the Younger’s correspondence with Trajan Context triple: [early Christians in Bithynia, knownFrom, Pliny the Younger’s correspondence with Trajan]
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A.
Trajan’s rescript to Pliny
chosen
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.
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B.
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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C.
Pliny the Younger
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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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.
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.
- 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_69fd3d0711688190ab8e90f403082d7a |
completed | May 8, 2026, 1:31 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:59 a.m.