Triple

T16540951
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Treaty with Chandragupta Maurya E401815 entity
Predicate relatedWork P37 FINISHED
Object Indica by Megasthenes
Indica by Megasthenes is an ancient Greek account of India that provides one of the earliest detailed foreign descriptions of the Mauryan Empire, its society, geography, and governance.
E1219903 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: Indica by Megasthenes | Statement: [Treaty with Chandragupta Maurya, relatedWork, Indica by Megasthenes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Indica by Megasthenes
Context triple: [Treaty with Chandragupta Maurya, relatedWork, Indica by Megasthenes]
  • A. Arrian’s Indica
    Arrian’s *Indica* is an ancient Greek historical and ethnographic work that describes India and the voyage of Alexander the Great’s admiral Nearchus along the Indian Ocean.
  • B. Arthashastra
    Arthashastra is an ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, economics, and military strategy, traditionally attributed to Kautilya (Chanakya), that outlines detailed principles of governance and political power.
  • C. Relectio de Indis
    Relectio de Indis is a foundational 16th-century theological-legal treatise that helped establish principles of international law and the rights of Indigenous peoples in the context of Spanish colonial expansion.
  • D. Harshacharita
    Harshacharita is a 7th-century Sanskrit prose biography of the Indian emperor Harsha, composed by the poet Bāṇabhaṭṭa and valued as both a literary classic and a key historical source on early medieval North India.
  • E. Brihat Samhita
    Brihat Samhita is a 6th-century encyclopedic Sanskrit text that covers astrology, astronomy, architecture, omens, and various aspects of natural and social sciences in ancient India.
  • 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: Indica by Megasthenes
Triple: [Treaty with Chandragupta Maurya, relatedWork, Indica by Megasthenes]
Generated description
Indica by Megasthenes is an ancient Greek account of India that provides one of the earliest detailed foreign descriptions of the Mauryan Empire, its society, geography, and governance.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Indica by Megasthenes
Target entity description: Indica by Megasthenes is an ancient Greek account of India that provides one of the earliest detailed foreign descriptions of the Mauryan Empire, its society, geography, and governance.
  • A. Arrian’s Indica
    Arrian’s *Indica* is an ancient Greek historical and ethnographic work that describes India and the voyage of Alexander the Great’s admiral Nearchus along the Indian Ocean.
  • B. Arthashastra
    Arthashastra is an ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, economics, and military strategy, traditionally attributed to Kautilya (Chanakya), that outlines detailed principles of governance and political power.
  • C. Relectio de Indis
    Relectio de Indis is a foundational 16th-century theological-legal treatise that helped establish principles of international law and the rights of Indigenous peoples in the context of Spanish colonial expansion.
  • D. Harshacharita
    Harshacharita is a 7th-century Sanskrit prose biography of the Indian emperor Harsha, composed by the poet Bāṇabhaṭṭa and valued as both a literary classic and a key historical source on early medieval North India.
  • E. Brihat Samhita
    Brihat Samhita is a 6th-century encyclopedic Sanskrit text that covers astrology, astronomy, architecture, omens, and various aspects of natural and social sciences in ancient India.
  • 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_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.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a006895b8ac8190a8d078e6b9f5bb50 completed May 10, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00694da4a88190944ae4a70ac9f0c3 completed May 10, 2026, 11:17 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:15 a.m.