Triple

T15003355
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject imperial administration of the Western Roman Empire E374145 entity
Predicate hasKeyOffice P1268 FINISHED
Object comes Africae
Comes Africae was a high-ranking late Roman imperial official responsible for overseeing military and administrative affairs in the province of Africa.
E1131985 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: comes Africae | Statement: [imperial administration of the Western Roman Empire, hasKeyOffice, comes Africae]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: comes Africae
Context triple: [imperial administration of the Western Roman Empire, hasKeyOffice, comes Africae]
  • A. Africa Vetus
    Africa Vetus was the Roman Republic’s original African province centered on Carthage, later distinguished from the adjacent territory known as Africa Nova.
  • B. the African
    "The African" was the epithet of Afonso V of Portugal, a 15th-century king noted for his military campaigns in North Africa and support of early Portuguese expansion.
  • C. M. Afr.
    M. Afr. is the post-nominal abbreviation used by members of the Missionaries of Africa, a Roman Catholic missionary society commonly known as the White Fathers.
  • D. Classis Africana
    Classis Africana was a Roman imperial fleet responsible for protecting sea routes and transporting grain and troops between North Africa and Italy.
  • E. AFAFRICA
    AFAFRICA is the U.S. Air Force component command responsible for air operations and support across the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) area of responsibility.
  • 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: comes Africae
Triple: [imperial administration of the Western Roman Empire, hasKeyOffice, comes Africae]
Generated description
Comes Africae was a high-ranking late Roman imperial official responsible for overseeing military and administrative affairs in the province of Africa.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: comes Africae
Target entity description: Comes Africae was a high-ranking late Roman imperial official responsible for overseeing military and administrative affairs in the province of Africa.
  • A. Africa Vetus
    Africa Vetus was the Roman Republic’s original African province centered on Carthage, later distinguished from the adjacent territory known as Africa Nova.
  • B. the African
    "The African" was the epithet of Afonso V of Portugal, a 15th-century king noted for his military campaigns in North Africa and support of early Portuguese expansion.
  • C. M. Afr.
    M. Afr. is the post-nominal abbreviation used by members of the Missionaries of Africa, a Roman Catholic missionary society commonly known as the White Fathers.
  • D. Classis Africana
    Classis Africana was a Roman imperial fleet responsible for protecting sea routes and transporting grain and troops between North Africa and Italy.
  • E. AFAFRICA
    AFAFRICA is the U.S. Air Force component command responsible for air operations and support across the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) area of responsibility.
  • 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_69d85ccc84388190aa151e5173370c8d completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded7312ae48190bdaf91ecced6657e completed April 15, 2026, 12:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe96a04eec8190b347bf3637aba0bc completed May 9, 2026, 2:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe98e182708190a013511c32d33315 completed May 9, 2026, 2:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe9a48e85081909d70d8f44e3a54d7 completed May 9, 2026, 2:22 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:54 a.m.