Triple
T14159895
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | early Christians in Bithynia |
E350908
|
entity |
| Predicate | documentedIn |
P309
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Pliny, Epistulae 10.97 |
E350906
|
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, Epistulae 10.97 | Statement: [early Christians in Bithynia, documentedIn, Pliny, Epistulae 10.97]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pliny, Epistulae 10.97 Context triple: [early Christians in Bithynia, documentedIn, Pliny, Epistulae 10.97]
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Epistulae
Epistulae is a collection of letters by the late Roman aristocrat and bishop Sidonius Apollinaris, valued for its detailed portrayal of Gallo-Roman society in the 5th century.
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E.
Epistulae
chosen
Epistulae is a collection of letters by Pliny the Younger that offers a detailed and personal glimpse into Roman political, social, and intellectual life in the late first and early second centuries AD.
- 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_69fd193b72f48190b80ac30d32ab8349 |
completed | May 7, 2026, 10:59 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:59 a.m.