Triple
T14750066
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Life of Pompey |
E346578
|
entity |
| Predicate | featuresEvent |
P6628
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Pompey’s defeat at Pharsalus
Pompey’s defeat at Pharsalus was the decisive 48 BC battle of Caesar’s Civil War in which Julius Caesar crushed Pompey the Great’s forces, effectively ending Pompey’s dominance and reshaping the Roman Republic’s political order.
|
E1117339
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (4 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: Pompey’s defeat at Pharsalus | Statement: [Life of Pompey, featuresEvent, Pompey’s defeat at Pharsalus]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pompey’s defeat at Pharsalus Context triple: [Life of Pompey, featuresEvent, Pompey’s defeat at Pharsalus]
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A.
defeat of Julius Caesar
The defeat of Julius Caesar refers to the hoped-for but unrealized objective of his political and military opponents, particularly the Pompeian faction, to overthrow his rising dominance in the late Roman Republic.
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B.
Battle of Munda
The Battle of Munda was the decisive final engagement of Julius Caesar’s civil war, in which he defeated the remaining Pompeian forces in 45 BC in Hispania, securing his uncontested rule over Rome.
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C.
Battle of Thapsus
The Battle of Thapsus was a decisive 46 BC engagement in North Africa in which Julius Caesar crushed the remaining Optimates forces, paving the way for his uncontested dominance over the Roman Republic.
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D.
Battle of Philippi
The Battle of Philippi was a decisive series of engagements in 42 BC during the Roman civil wars, in which the forces of Mark Antony and Octavian defeated the armies of Julius Caesar’s assassins Brutus and Cassius in Macedonia.
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E.
Pompey’s Eastern campaigns
Pompey’s Eastern campaigns were a series of mid-1st century BCE Roman military and diplomatic operations through Asia Minor, the Levant, and surrounding regions that dismantled rival powers, expanded Roman territory, and reshaped the political order of the eastern Mediterranean.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg
Description generation
gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. # Instructions Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Pompey’s defeat at Pharsalus Triple: [Life of Pompey, featuresEvent, Pompey’s defeat at Pharsalus]
Generated description
Pompey’s defeat at Pharsalus was the decisive 48 BC battle of Caesar’s Civil War in which Julius Caesar crushed Pompey the Great’s forces, effectively ending Pompey’s dominance and reshaping the Roman Republic’s political order.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pompey’s defeat at Pharsalus Target entity description: Pompey’s defeat at Pharsalus was the decisive 48 BC battle of Caesar’s Civil War in which Julius Caesar crushed Pompey the Great’s forces, effectively ending Pompey’s dominance and reshaping the Roman Republic’s political order.
-
A.
defeat of Julius Caesar
The defeat of Julius Caesar refers to the hoped-for but unrealized objective of his political and military opponents, particularly the Pompeian faction, to overthrow his rising dominance in the late Roman Republic.
-
B.
Battle of Munda
The Battle of Munda was the decisive final engagement of Julius Caesar’s civil war, in which he defeated the remaining Pompeian forces in 45 BC in Hispania, securing his uncontested rule over Rome.
-
C.
Battle of Thapsus
The Battle of Thapsus was a decisive 46 BC engagement in North Africa in which Julius Caesar crushed the remaining Optimates forces, paving the way for his uncontested dominance over the Roman Republic.
-
D.
Battle of Philippi
The Battle of Philippi was a decisive series of engagements in 42 BC during the Roman civil wars, in which the forces of Mark Antony and Octavian defeated the armies of Julius Caesar’s assassins Brutus and Cassius in Macedonia.
-
E.
Pompey’s Eastern campaigns
Pompey’s Eastern campaigns were a series of mid-1st century BCE Roman military and diplomatic operations through Asia Minor, the Levant, and surrounding regions that dismantled rival powers, expanded Roman territory, and reshaped the political order of the eastern Mediterranean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (5 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_69d822e6f1c88190bc494d491a907114 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69dec7d2e1748190b16ede681fe52872 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 11:03 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fdfb9a56a08190b6a178cd930a072d |
completed | May 8, 2026, 3:04 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69fdfde8ed30819083600cdac241675e |
completed | May 8, 2026, 3:14 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69fdfe969a6081908f4ebec0f6538811 |
completed | May 8, 2026, 3:17 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:30 a.m.