Triple
T14698569
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Appian of Alexandria |
E345228
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entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
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FINISHED |
| Object | Appian of Alexandria |
E345228
|
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: Appian of Alexandria | Statement: [Appian of Alexandria, name, Appian of Alexandria]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Appian of Alexandria Context triple: [Appian of Alexandria, name, Appian of Alexandria]
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A.
Appian of Alexandria
chosen
Appian of Alexandria was a 2nd-century AD Greek historian and Roman official best known for his multi-volume work "Roman History," which chronicles Rome’s rise and its civil wars.
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B.
Eudorus of Alexandria
Eudorus of Alexandria was an influential 1st-century BCE philosopher whose work helped shape Middle Platonism by reinterpreting Plato through Pythagorean and other earlier Greek traditions.
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C.
Alexander of Alexandria
Alexander of Alexandria was a 4th-century Patriarch of Alexandria best known for his staunch defense of Nicene orthodoxy and his early opposition to the teachings of Arius.
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D.
Heraclas of Alexandria
Heraclas of Alexandria was a 3rd-century Christian scholar and bishop of Alexandria, known for succeeding Origen as head of the Catechetical School and later serving as patriarch of the Alexandrian church.
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E.
Zenodotus of Ephesus
Zenodotus of Ephesus was an ancient Greek grammarian and scholar, best known as the first librarian of the Library of Alexandria and an early editor of Homeric poetry.
- 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_69d822e4a8c08190a155df736bb7bc13 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69deb604f88081908a677175045496d0 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 9:47 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fde19040e0819099159ed2609c6965 |
completed | May 8, 2026, 1:13 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:28 a.m.