Triple

T1969395
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gallic Empire E42763 entity
Predicate firstRuler P3535 FINISHED
Object Postumus
Postumus was a 3rd-century Roman military commander who broke away from central imperial authority to establish and rule the secessionist Gallic Empire in the western provinces.
E219390 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: Postumus | Statement: [Gallic Empire, firstRuler, Postumus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Postumus
Context triple: [Gallic Empire, firstRuler, Postumus]
  • A. Maccus
    Maccus is an Old Norse–derived given name that served as the historical root for the later surname and given name Maxwell.
  • B. Nicanor
    Nicanor was a Seleucid military commander known for leading royal forces against the Jewish rebels during the Maccabean Revolt in the 2nd century BCE.
  • C. Ahenobarbus
    Ahenobarbus was the cognomen of a prominent Roman aristocratic family line to which the emperor Nero belonged.
  • 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. Julius Civilis
    Julius Civilis was a 1st-century Batavian chieftain and Roman military officer who led a major revolt against Roman rule along the Rhine frontier.
  • 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: Postumus
Triple: [Gallic Empire, firstRuler, Postumus]
Generated description
Postumus was a 3rd-century Roman military commander who broke away from central imperial authority to establish and rule the secessionist Gallic Empire in the western provinces.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Postumus
Target entity description: Postumus was a 3rd-century Roman military commander who broke away from central imperial authority to establish and rule the secessionist Gallic Empire in the western provinces.
  • A. Maccus
    Maccus is an Old Norse–derived given name that served as the historical root for the later surname and given name Maxwell.
  • B. Nicanor
    Nicanor was a Seleucid military commander known for leading royal forces against the Jewish rebels during the Maccabean Revolt in the 2nd century BCE.
  • C. Ahenobarbus
    Ahenobarbus was the cognomen of a prominent Roman aristocratic family line to which the emperor Nero belonged.
  • 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. Julius Civilis
    Julius Civilis was a 1st-century Batavian chieftain and Roman military officer who led a major revolt against Roman rule along the Rhine frontier.
  • 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_69a88711151c8190940b2572095059d7 completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb3d17274819084cd352a3d2a8151 completed March 7, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adfbd9a2dc81909f86fdfa9c646dd0 completed March 8, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adfc6e40f081909682afd84f4e9338 completed March 8, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adfd9fa4cc81909734a147626da4d1 completed March 8, 2026, 10:52 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.