Triple

T1704235
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hellenistic period E36831 entity
Predicate notableFigure P4290 FINISHED
Object Eratosthenes
Eratosthenes was an ancient Greek polymath best known for remarkably accurately calculating the Earth's circumference and for devising the sieve method for finding prime numbers.
E196028 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: Eratosthenes | Statement: [Hellenistic period, notableFigure, Eratosthenes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eratosthenes
Context triple: [Hellenistic period, notableFigure, Eratosthenes]
  • A. Aristarchus of Samothrace
    Aristarchus of Samothrace was a prominent Hellenistic Greek scholar and head of the Library of Alexandria, renowned for his critical editions and commentaries on Homeric poetry.
  • B. Aristarchus of Samos
    Aristarchus of Samos was an ancient Greek astronomer who proposed a heliocentric model of the universe, placing the Sun at the center and the Earth in motion around it.
  • C. Eudoxus of Cnidus
    Eudoxus of Cnidus was an ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer renowned for developing the method of exhaustion and an influential geometric model of planetary motion.
  • D. Hipparchus
    Hipparchus was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician renowned for founding trigonometry and creating one of the first comprehensive models of the motions of the Sun and Moon.
  • E. Hipparchus of Athens
    Hipparchus of Athens was a 6th-century BCE Athenian tyrant of the Peisistratid family, known as a patron of the arts and for his assassination, which became a celebrated event in Athenian democratic lore.
  • 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: Eratosthenes
Triple: [Hellenistic period, notableFigure, Eratosthenes]
Generated description
Eratosthenes was an ancient Greek polymath best known for remarkably accurately calculating the Earth's circumference and for devising the sieve method for finding prime numbers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eratosthenes
Target entity description: Eratosthenes was an ancient Greek polymath best known for remarkably accurately calculating the Earth's circumference and for devising the sieve method for finding prime numbers.
  • A. Aristarchus of Samothrace
    Aristarchus of Samothrace was a prominent Hellenistic Greek scholar and head of the Library of Alexandria, renowned for his critical editions and commentaries on Homeric poetry.
  • B. Aristarchus of Samos
    Aristarchus of Samos was an ancient Greek astronomer who proposed a heliocentric model of the universe, placing the Sun at the center and the Earth in motion around it.
  • C. Eudoxus of Cnidus
    Eudoxus of Cnidus was an ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer renowned for developing the method of exhaustion and an influential geometric model of planetary motion.
  • D. Hipparchus
    Hipparchus was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician renowned for founding trigonometry and creating one of the first comprehensive models of the motions of the Sun and Moon.
  • E. Hipparchus of Athens
    Hipparchus of Athens was a 6th-century BCE Athenian tyrant of the Peisistratid family, known as a patron of the arts and for his assassination, which became a celebrated event in Athenian democratic lore.
  • 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_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_69ada0cf5a3481908434c725e85360a2 completed March 8, 2026, 4:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ada1a0510481908ed8c36c9ae9a1a0 completed March 8, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ada26343988190bd067ca97186eb96 completed March 8, 2026, 4:22 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:30 p.m.