Triple
T2112586
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Thucydides |
E42536
|
entity |
| Predicate | described |
P264
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Sicilian Expedition |
E80798
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Sicilian Expedition | Statement: [Thucydides, described, Sicilian Expedition]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sicilian Expedition Context triple: [Thucydides, described, Sicilian Expedition]
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A.
Sicilian Expedition
chosen
The Sicilian Expedition was a massive Athenian military campaign against Syracuse in Sicily (415–413 BCE) that ended in catastrophic defeat and marked a major turning point in the Peloponnesian War.
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B.
Siege of Syracuse
The Siege of Syracuse was a major Roman military campaign during the Second Punic War, famous for the city’s prolonged resistance aided by Archimedes’ ingenious defensive war machines before its eventual capture in 212 BC.
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C.
Corinth campaign
The Corinth campaign was a series of Union operations in the Western Theater of the American Civil War aimed at capturing the strategically vital railroad junction of Corinth, Mississippi, in 1862.
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D.
Corinthian War
The Corinthian War was a major conflict in ancient Greece (395–387 BC) in which a coalition of city-states, including Athens, Thebes, Corinth, and Argos, fought against Spartan dominance, reshaping the balance of power in the Greek world.
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E.
Pyrrhic War
The Pyrrhic War was an early 3rd-century BCE conflict in which King Pyrrhus of Epirus fought Rome in southern Italy, giving rise to the term “Pyrrhic victory” for costly, ruinous successes.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a8871040f08190aac2e2d0ab6b47ad |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abbb0495d0819097dc936540743b74 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:43 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ae30748a7c81908ab3e08b7aa9900a |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:43 p.m.