Triple
T16540841
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Seleucid–Mauryan relations |
E401813
|
entity |
| Predicate | documentedBy |
P4310
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Megasthenes |
E601747
|
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: Megasthenes | Statement: [Seleucid–Mauryan relations, documentedBy, Megasthenes]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Megasthenes Context triple: [Seleucid–Mauryan relations, documentedBy, Megasthenes]
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A.
Megasthenes
chosen
Megasthenes was an ancient Greek historian and diplomat best known for his work "Indica," which provides one of the earliest detailed accounts of India and its society.
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B.
Ctesias of Cnidus
Ctesias of Cnidus was a 5th-century BCE Greek physician and historian at the Persian court whose works, especially his Persica and Indica, provided influential but often fanciful accounts of the Achaemenid Empire and India.
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C.
Agatharchides
Agatharchides was a 2nd-century BCE Greek historian and geographer known for his detailed accounts of the Red Sea and Arabian regions.
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D.
Arrian of Nicomedia
Arrian of Nicomedia was a 2nd-century Greek historian and philosopher, best known for recording the teachings of Epictetus and for his influential history of Alexander the Great.
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E.
Gaius Fannius Strabo
Gaius Fannius Strabo was a Roman statesman of the 2nd century BC who served as consul and was active in the political struggles of the late 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_69d88384bc30819084229e7dcdc39a41 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e3455cf4b88190b3c9e93e158a7686 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 8:48 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a0067b0e5708190a286b8a316d6efd2 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 11:10 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:15 a.m.