Triple

T2101480
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New History E37101 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object Zosimus
Zosimus was a Byzantine historian of the early 6th century best known for his pagan-leaning account of the later Roman Empire in his work "New History."
E237313 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: Zosimus | Statement: [New History, author, Zosimus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zosimus
Context triple: [New History, author, Zosimus]
  • 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. 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.
  • C. Eusebius of Nicomedia
    Eusebius of Nicomedia was a 4th-century Christian bishop and influential Arian supporter who played a key role in the theological and political controversies surrounding the Council of Nicaea.
  • D. Dorotheos
    Dorotheos is a Greek given name of religious origin, meaning "gift of God."
  • E. Modestinus
    Modestinus was a prominent Roman jurist of the 3rd century whose legal opinions were highly influential and later incorporated into Justinian’s Digest.
  • 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: Zosimus
Triple: [New History, author, Zosimus]
Generated description
Zosimus was a Byzantine historian of the early 6th century best known for his pagan-leaning account of the later Roman Empire in his work "New History."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zosimus
Target entity description: Zosimus was a Byzantine historian of the early 6th century best known for his pagan-leaning account of the later Roman Empire in his work "New History."
  • 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. 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.
  • C. Eusebius of Nicomedia
    Eusebius of Nicomedia was a 4th-century Christian bishop and influential Arian supporter who played a key role in the theological and political controversies surrounding the Council of Nicaea.
  • D. Dorotheos
    Dorotheos is a Greek given name of religious origin, meaning "gift of God."
  • E. Modestinus
    Modestinus was a prominent Roman jurist of the 3rd century whose legal opinions were highly influential and later incorporated into Justinian’s Digest.
  • 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_69abbabc83a8819091f786f21d33b5a6 completed March 7, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae518fb0b4819096a8ce455e22661a completed March 9, 2026, 4:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae523cdebc819088b94e67b5311527 completed March 9, 2026, 4:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae52c56c5c8190bbdd2af3dde63374 completed March 9, 2026, 4:55 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:43 p.m.