Triple

T2001856
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alans E43487 entity
Predicate mentionedBy P831 FINISHED
Object Procopius
Procopius was a 6th-century Byzantine historian best known for his detailed accounts of Emperor Justinian I’s reign, including the wars, buildings, and secret history of the empire.
E226525 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: Procopius | Statement: [Alans, mentionedBy, Procopius]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Procopius
Context triple: [Alans, mentionedBy, Procopius]
  • A. Ammianus Marcellinus
    Ammianus Marcellinus was a 4th-century Roman historian and former soldier whose surviving work, the *Res Gestae*, is a major source for the history of the late Roman Empire.
  • B. Cassius Dio
    Cassius Dio was a Roman statesman and historian best known for his extensive work "Roman History," which chronicles Rome from its legendary origins through the early 3rd century CE.
  • C. Dionysius of Halicarnassus
    Dionysius of Halicarnassus was a Greek historian and rhetorician of the 1st century BC, best known for his work "Roman Antiquities," which offers a detailed account of early Roman history and institutions.
  • D. Diodorus Siculus
    Diodorus Siculus was a 1st-century BCE Greek historian best known for his universal history "Bibliotheca historica," which attempted to chronicle the history of the world from mythological times to his own era.
  • E. Eusebius of Caesarea
    Eusebius of Caesarea was a 4th-century Christian historian and bishop, best known for his seminal work "Ecclesiastical History," which chronicles the early Church from the time of Christ to his own era.
  • 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: Procopius
Triple: [Alans, mentionedBy, Procopius]
Generated description
Procopius was a 6th-century Byzantine historian best known for his detailed accounts of Emperor Justinian I’s reign, including the wars, buildings, and secret history of the empire.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Procopius
Target entity description: Procopius was a 6th-century Byzantine historian best known for his detailed accounts of Emperor Justinian I’s reign, including the wars, buildings, and secret history of the empire.
  • A. Ammianus Marcellinus
    Ammianus Marcellinus was a 4th-century Roman historian and former soldier whose surviving work, the *Res Gestae*, is a major source for the history of the late Roman Empire.
  • B. Cassius Dio
    Cassius Dio was a Roman statesman and historian best known for his extensive work "Roman History," which chronicles Rome from its legendary origins through the early 3rd century CE.
  • C. Dionysius of Halicarnassus
    Dionysius of Halicarnassus was a Greek historian and rhetorician of the 1st century BC, best known for his work "Roman Antiquities," which offers a detailed account of early Roman history and institutions.
  • D. Diodorus Siculus
    Diodorus Siculus was a 1st-century BCE Greek historian best known for his universal history "Bibliotheca historica," which attempted to chronicle the history of the world from mythological times to his own era.
  • E. Eusebius of Caesarea
    Eusebius of Caesarea was a 4th-century Christian historian and bishop, best known for his seminal work "Ecclesiastical History," which chronicles the early Church from the time of Christ to his own era.
  • 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_69a88715dbbc8190b2299e29e955d997 completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb880c710819098fb877052ce56dc completed March 7, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae0adcd2708190b126e3872679d88c completed March 8, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae0b49abfc81908876ea54c7b7dcc2 completed March 8, 2026, 11:50 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae0d1bb5c881908c27bdd359e78773 completed March 8, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.