Triple

T1685598
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Republic E36433 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Cephalus
Cephalus is an elderly, wealthy Athenian arms manufacturer who appears in Plato’s Republic as the initial interlocutor in Socrates’ discussion of justice.
 E190151 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: Cephalus | Statement: [Republic, featuresCharacter, Cephalus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cephalus
Context triple: [Republic, featuresCharacter, Cephalus]
  • A. Demea
    Demea is a character in David Hume’s *Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion* who represents a traditional, fideistic religious perspective emphasizing human ignorance and the limits of reason in theology.
  • B. Aristaeus
    Aristaeus is a minor Greek god associated with agriculture, beekeeping, and pastoral pursuits, often revered as a culture hero who taught humans various rural arts.
  • C. Eryximachus
    Eryximachus is a physician and one of the speakers in Plato’s *Symposium*, known for giving a speech on love from a medical and cosmic perspective.
  • D. Demophon
    Demophon is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as one of the sons of the Athenian hero Theseus and later a king of Athens.
  • E. Menoetius
    Menoetius is a Titan in Greek mythology, known as a son of Iapetus and Clymene and the father of the hero Patroclus.
  • 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: Cephalus
Triple: [Republic, featuresCharacter, Cephalus]
Generated description
Cephalus is an elderly, wealthy Athenian arms manufacturer who appears in Plato’s Republic as the initial interlocutor in Socrates’ discussion of justice.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cephalus
Target entity description: Cephalus is an elderly, wealthy Athenian arms manufacturer who appears in Plato’s Republic as the initial interlocutor in Socrates’ discussion of justice.
  • A. Demea
    Demea is a character in David Hume’s *Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion* who represents a traditional, fideistic religious perspective emphasizing human ignorance and the limits of reason in theology.
  • B. Aristaeus
    Aristaeus is a minor Greek god associated with agriculture, beekeeping, and pastoral pursuits, often revered as a culture hero who taught humans various rural arts.
  • C. Eryximachus
    Eryximachus is a physician and one of the speakers in Plato’s *Symposium*, known for giving a speech on love from a medical and cosmic perspective.
  • D. Demophon
    Demophon is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as one of the sons of the Athenian hero Theseus and later a king of Athens.
  • E. Menoetius
    Menoetius is a Titan in Greek mythology, known as a son of Iapetus and Clymene and the father of the hero Patroclus.
  • 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_69a886151508819084fa7f1ce6e05577 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa627da0688190bfb5316079bc589a completed March 6, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad71c1b4308190b04fed7ce752b67c completed March 8, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad724651e08190a77519ad21c64b23 completed March 8, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad72c405b081909bff8bf621e9baec completed March 8, 2026, 12:59 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.