Triple
T14888962
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus |
E359703
|
entity |
| Predicate | alsoKnownAs |
P39
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Pliny the Younger |
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 | Statement: [Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, alsoKnownAs, Pliny the Younger]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pliny the Younger Context triple: [Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, alsoKnownAs, Pliny the Younger]
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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.
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B.
Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder was a 1st-century Roman author, naturalist, and military commander best known for his encyclopedic work "Naturalis Historia," which compiled much of the scientific and cultural knowledge of the ancient world.
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C.
Cornelii Balbi
Cornelii Balbi were a prominent branch of the ancient Roman Cornelii family, known for producing influential political and military figures during the late Republic and early Empire.
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D.
Julius Capitolinus
Julius Capitolinus is a purported Roman biographer traditionally credited as one of the authors of the Historia Augusta, a late antique collection of imperial biographies.
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E.
Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus
Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus was a Roman statesman from the patrician Sulpicia family who held high magistracies during the early Roman Republic.
- 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_69d827980cbc8190a0c569ae3940a1d9 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ded5f6cf5c8190b6b28f58fafe5d59 |
completed | April 15, 2026, 12:04 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fe6b5f22c08190a9530cbd78cfc801 |
completed | May 8, 2026, 11:01 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:09 a.m.