Triple

T1704215
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hellenistic period E36831 entity
Predicate majorCity P316 FINISHED
Object Seleucia on the Tigris
Seleucia on the Tigris was a prominent Hellenistic metropolis in Mesopotamia that served as a key political, commercial, and cultural center of the Seleucid Empire.
 E134142 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: Seleucia on the Tigris | Statement: [Hellenistic period, majorCity, Seleucia on the Tigris]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Seleucia on the Tigris
Context triple: [Hellenistic period, majorCity, Seleucia on the Tigris]
  • A. Ctesiphon
    Ctesiphon was an ancient metropolis on the Tigris River that served for centuries as the principal capital of the Parthian and later Sasanian Persian empires.
  • B. Antioch on the Orontes
    Antioch on the Orontes was a major ancient city in Syria that became a leading political, commercial, and cultural center of the Hellenistic and later Roman worlds.
  • C. Edessa
    Edessa is a historic city in northern Greece renowned for its picturesque waterfalls and ancient heritage.
  • D. Edessa
    Edessa was an ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia, renowned as a major early center of Syriac Christianity and culture.
  • E. Samarra
    Samarra is an ancient Iraqi city on the Tigris River renowned for its monumental Islamic architecture, especially the spiral minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra.
  • 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: Seleucia on the Tigris
Triple: [Hellenistic period, majorCity, Seleucia on the Tigris]
Generated description
Seleucia on the Tigris was a prominent Hellenistic metropolis in Mesopotamia that served as a key political, commercial, and cultural center of the Seleucid Empire.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Seleucia on the Tigris
Target entity description: Seleucia on the Tigris was a prominent Hellenistic metropolis in Mesopotamia that served as a key political, commercial, and cultural center of the Seleucid Empire.
  • A. Ctesiphon chosen
    Ctesiphon was an ancient metropolis on the Tigris River that served for centuries as the principal capital of the Parthian and later Sasanian Persian empires.
  • B. Antioch on the Orontes
    Antioch on the Orontes was a major ancient city in Syria that became a leading political, commercial, and cultural center of the Hellenistic and later Roman worlds.
  • C. Edessa
    Edessa is a historic city in northern Greece renowned for its picturesque waterfalls and ancient heritage.
  • D. Edessa
    Edessa was an ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia, renowned as a major early center of Syriac Christianity and culture.
  • E. Samarra
    Samarra is an ancient Iraqi city on the Tigris River renowned for its monumental Islamic architecture, especially the spiral minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a88617439c819094ffb5d16a0f6307 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa62f25bac8190977d6f3bd79363cb completed March 6, 2026, 5:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad8acf74848190a18e41988647edcd completed March 8, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad979b7f2c819094c907bed705db3b completed March 8, 2026, 3:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad9831a87c819089fc3b590ab7ecb2 completed March 8, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:30 p.m.