Triple

T15725575
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hellenistic astronomy E381209 entity
Predicate hasNotableAstronomer P602 FINISHED
Object Theon of Alexandria
Theon of Alexandria was a 4th-century Greek mathematician and astronomer best known as the last recorded scholar of the Library of Alexandria and for his influential commentaries on Ptolemy’s Almagest and Euclid’s Elements.
E1181221 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: Theon of Alexandria | Statement: [Hellenistic astronomy, hasNotableAstronomer, Theon of Alexandria]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theon of Alexandria
Context triple: [Hellenistic astronomy, hasNotableAstronomer, Theon of Alexandria]
  • A. Appian of Alexandria
    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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Geminus of Rhodes
    Geminus of Rhodes was a 1st-century BCE Greek astronomer and mathematician known for his influential introductory treatise on astronomy, the "Introduction to the Phenomena."
  • D. Theodotus of Chios
    Theodotus of Chios was a Greek rhetorician and tutor to Ptolemy XIII who became notorious for advising the execution of the exiled Roman general Pompey the Great in Egypt.
  • E. Dioscorus of Alexandria
    Dioscorus of Alexandria was a 5th-century Coptic patriarch of Alexandria whose controversial leadership and Christological views played a central role in the theological conflicts surrounding the Council of Chalcedon.
  • 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: Theon of Alexandria
Triple: [Hellenistic astronomy, hasNotableAstronomer, Theon of Alexandria]
Generated description
Theon of Alexandria was a 4th-century Greek mathematician and astronomer best known as the last recorded scholar of the Library of Alexandria and for his influential commentaries on Ptolemy’s Almagest and Euclid’s Elements.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theon of Alexandria
Target entity description: Theon of Alexandria was a 4th-century Greek mathematician and astronomer best known as the last recorded scholar of the Library of Alexandria and for his influential commentaries on Ptolemy’s Almagest and Euclid’s Elements.
  • A. Appian of Alexandria
    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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Geminus of Rhodes
    Geminus of Rhodes was a 1st-century BCE Greek astronomer and mathematician known for his influential introductory treatise on astronomy, the "Introduction to the Phenomena."
  • D. Theodotus of Chios
    Theodotus of Chios was a Greek rhetorician and tutor to Ptolemy XIII who became notorious for advising the execution of the exiled Roman general Pompey the Great in Egypt.
  • E. Dioscorus of Alexandria
    Dioscorus of Alexandria was a 5th-century Coptic patriarch of Alexandria whose controversial leadership and Christological views played a central role in the theological conflicts surrounding the Council of Chalcedon.
  • 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_69d86d9cdb648190bf3171be0bd7d872 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04fb357a88190a92641c8a8c20573 completed April 16, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffa9341a0c81909057dc338f218b85 completed May 9, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffaa3903408190b7beaa6b461bd2bd completed May 9, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffab0c79d4819085f0ed6a4edcb7fb completed May 9, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:46 a.m.