Triple

T2100764
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cato the Younger E37085 entity
Predicate greatGrandfather P15332 FINISHED
Object Cato the Elder
Cato the Elder was a Roman statesman, orator, and moralist known for his staunch conservatism, advocacy of traditional Roman values, and repeated calls for the destruction of Carthage.
E247528 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: Cato the Elder | Statement: [Cato the Younger, greatGrandfather, Cato the Elder]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cato the Elder
Context triple: [Cato the Younger, greatGrandfather, Cato the Elder]
  • A. Cato the Younger
    Cato the Younger was a Roman statesman and Stoic philosopher renowned for his incorruptible integrity and staunch opposition to Julius Caesar’s rise to power.
  • B. Marcus Porcius Cato (father of Cato the Younger)
    Marcus Porcius Cato, often called Cato the Elder’s grandson and father of Cato the Younger, was a Roman statesman of the late Republic known primarily through his connection to his more famous son.
  • C. Cato
    Cato was an enslaved African man who led the 1739 Stono Rebellion in colonial South Carolina, one of the largest slave uprisings in British North America.
  • D. Cicero
    Cicero was a renowned Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher whose speeches and writings profoundly influenced Latin literature and Western political thought.
  • E. Publius
    Publius was the shared pseudonym used by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay when writing the influential essays known as The Federalist Papers advocating for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
  • 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: Cato the Elder
Triple: [Cato the Younger, greatGrandfather, Cato the Elder]
Generated description
Cato the Elder was a Roman statesman, orator, and moralist known for his staunch conservatism, advocacy of traditional Roman values, and repeated calls for the destruction of Carthage.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cato the Elder
Target entity description: Cato the Elder was a Roman statesman, orator, and moralist known for his staunch conservatism, advocacy of traditional Roman values, and repeated calls for the destruction of Carthage.
  • A. Cato the Younger
    Cato the Younger was a Roman statesman and Stoic philosopher renowned for his incorruptible integrity and staunch opposition to Julius Caesar’s rise to power.
  • B. Marcus Porcius Cato (father of Cato the Younger)
    Marcus Porcius Cato, often called Cato the Elder’s grandson and father of Cato the Younger, was a Roman statesman of the late Republic known primarily through his connection to his more famous son.
  • C. Cato
    Cato was an enslaved African man who led the 1739 Stono Rebellion in colonial South Carolina, one of the largest slave uprisings in British North America.
  • D. Cicero
    Cicero was a renowned Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher whose speeches and writings profoundly influenced Latin literature and Western political thought.
  • E. Publius
    Publius was the shared pseudonym used by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay when writing the influential essays known as The Federalist Papers advocating for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
  • 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_69a8861828948190924aa30c08806b3a completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbabb512c819087b1d5ec8ef11e63 completed March 7, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6aec3694819090d0e7cf02944aa3 completed March 9, 2026, 6:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae6c1bc7e4819081b7eedf5391e733 completed March 9, 2026, 6:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae6c88f64c81908586682d1fd8cd26 completed March 9, 2026, 6:45 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:43 p.m.