Triple

T1906498
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Scipio Africanus E38016 entity
Predicate cognomen P6662 FINISHED
Object Africanus
Africanus is the cognomen famously borne by the Roman general Scipio, celebrated for his decisive victories over Carthage in the Second Punic War.
 E212279 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: Africanus | Statement: [Scipio Africanus, cognomen, Africanus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Africanus
Context triple: [Scipio Africanus, cognomen, Africanus]
  • A. Herculius
    Herculius was the honorific title of the Roman emperor Maximian, associating him with the hero-god Hercules as part of Diocletian’s Tetrarchic ideology.
  • B. Hannibalianus
    Hannibalianus was a 4th-century Roman nobleman and member of Constantine the Great’s family, briefly elevated with a royal title during the emperor’s eastern campaigns before being executed in the dynastic purges of 337.
  • C. Marinus
    Marinus is a masculine given name of Latin origin historically associated with figures such as American Revolutionary War officer Marinus Willett.
  • D. Sabbatius
    Sabbatius was the father of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I and a man of humble Illyrian or Thracian origin whose lineage did not belong to the traditional Roman aristocracy.
  • E. Dorotheus
    Dorotheus is a relatively obscure historical or religious figure known primarily through their association with Theophilus.
  • 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: Africanus
Triple: [Scipio Africanus, cognomen, Africanus]
Generated description
Africanus is the cognomen famously borne by the Roman general Scipio, celebrated for his decisive victories over Carthage in the Second Punic War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Africanus
Target entity description: Africanus is the cognomen famously borne by the Roman general Scipio, celebrated for his decisive victories over Carthage in the Second Punic War.
  • A. Herculius
    Herculius was the honorific title of the Roman emperor Maximian, associating him with the hero-god Hercules as part of Diocletian’s Tetrarchic ideology.
  • B. Hannibalianus
    Hannibalianus was a 4th-century Roman nobleman and member of Constantine the Great’s family, briefly elevated with a royal title during the emperor’s eastern campaigns before being executed in the dynastic purges of 337.
  • C. Marinus
    Marinus is a masculine given name of Latin origin historically associated with figures such as American Revolutionary War officer Marinus Willett.
  • D. Sabbatius
    Sabbatius was the father of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I and a man of humble Illyrian or Thracian origin whose lineage did not belong to the traditional Roman aristocracy.
  • E. Dorotheus
    Dorotheus is a relatively obscure historical or religious figure known primarily through their association with Theophilus.
  • 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_69a8862a26088190aae5243695aeefc0 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb1b3217081909004ad7f687b4216 completed March 7, 2026, 5:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adeafb063481908a08f5570acc5b57 completed March 8, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adec22c5e48190af85fa4a1d4c5d8d completed March 8, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adec9a840c8190a03f4de0f03a0e10 completed March 8, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:35 p.m.