Triple

T16561295
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dionysius the Elder E402343 entity
Predicate militaryBranch P253 FINISHED
Object Syracusan army
The Syracusan army was the land-based military force of the ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse, particularly renowned for its expansion and campaigns under the tyrant Dionysius the Elder in the 4th century BCE.
E1220148 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: Syracusan army | Statement: [Dionysius the Elder, militaryBranch, Syracusan army]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Syracusan army
Context triple: [Dionysius the Elder, militaryBranch, Syracusan army]
  • A. Ptolemaic army
    The Ptolemaic army was the Hellenistic military force of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt, composed of Macedonian-style phalanxes, mercenaries, and native troops that fought to defend and expand its Mediterranean and Near Eastern territories.
  • B. Plataean army
    The Plataean army was the small but crucial Greek city-state force that fought alongside Athens to help defeat the Persians at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC.
  • C. Boeotian army
    The Boeotian army was the collective military force of the cities of Boeotia in ancient Greece, noted for its heavy infantry and decisive role in regional conflicts such as the Peloponnesian War.
  • D. Athenian army
    The Athenian army was the land-based military force of ancient Athens, composed largely of citizen-soldiers who defended the city-state and fought in its numerous wars across classical Greece.
  • E. Pompeian forces
    Pompeian forces were the military troops loyal to Pompey the Great and the senatorial faction during the late Roman Republic’s civil war against Julius Caesar.
  • 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: Syracusan army
Triple: [Dionysius the Elder, militaryBranch, Syracusan army]
Generated description
The Syracusan army was the land-based military force of the ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse, particularly renowned for its expansion and campaigns under the tyrant Dionysius the Elder in the 4th century BCE.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Syracusan army
Target entity description: The Syracusan army was the land-based military force of the ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse, particularly renowned for its expansion and campaigns under the tyrant Dionysius the Elder in the 4th century BCE.
  • A. Ptolemaic army
    The Ptolemaic army was the Hellenistic military force of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt, composed of Macedonian-style phalanxes, mercenaries, and native troops that fought to defend and expand its Mediterranean and Near Eastern territories.
  • B. Plataean army
    The Plataean army was the small but crucial Greek city-state force that fought alongside Athens to help defeat the Persians at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC.
  • C. Boeotian army
    The Boeotian army was the collective military force of the cities of Boeotia in ancient Greece, noted for its heavy infantry and decisive role in regional conflicts such as the Peloponnesian War.
  • D. Athenian army
    The Athenian army was the land-based military force of ancient Athens, composed largely of citizen-soldiers who defended the city-state and fought in its numerous wars across classical Greece.
  • E. Pompeian forces
    Pompeian forces were the military troops loyal to Pompey the Great and the senatorial faction during the late Roman Republic’s civil war against Julius Caesar.
  • 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_69d8838648088190acf97ef11fc3f61b completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3576d88288190b33543bea4706a36 completed April 18, 2026, 10:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0067be809c81909c93eb1253fbf8e5 completed May 10, 2026, 11:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a006a4c343481909bf56cad83f3ed81 completed May 10, 2026, 11:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a006afcbdb88190b34bfe6f4cc0fd40 completed May 10, 2026, 11:24 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:15 a.m.