Triple

T2143635
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ephrem the Syrian E47014 entity
Predicate birthPlace P1 FINISHED
Object Nisibis
Nisibis was an important ancient city in Mesopotamia, strategically located on key trade routes and known as a center of early Syriac Christianity and learning.
 E236895 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: Nisibis | Statement: [Ephrem the Syrian, birthPlace, Nisibis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nisibis
Context triple: [Ephrem the Syrian, birthPlace, Nisibis]
  • A. Edessa
    Edessa was an ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia, renowned as a major early center of Syriac Christianity and culture.
  • B. Edessa
    Edessa is a historic city in northern Greece renowned for its picturesque waterfalls and ancient heritage.
  • C. Ctesiphon
    Ctesiphon was an ancient metropolis on the Tigris River that served for centuries as the principal capital of the Parthian and later Sasanian Persian empires.
  • D. Ṭarābulus
    Ṭarābulus is the Arabic name for Tripoli, a major historic port city and the capital of Libya on the Mediterranean coast.
  • E. Nineveh
    Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, famed as a major political and cultural center and once the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
  • 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: Nisibis
Triple: [Ephrem the Syrian, birthPlace, Nisibis]
Generated description
Nisibis was an important ancient city in Mesopotamia, strategically located on key trade routes and known as a center of early Syriac Christianity and learning.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nisibis
Target entity description: Nisibis was an important ancient city in Mesopotamia, strategically located on key trade routes and known as a center of early Syriac Christianity and learning.
  • A. Edessa
    Edessa was an ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia, renowned as a major early center of Syriac Christianity and culture.
  • B. Edessa
    Edessa is a historic city in northern Greece renowned for its picturesque waterfalls and ancient heritage.
  • C. Ctesiphon
    Ctesiphon was an ancient metropolis on the Tigris River that served for centuries as the principal capital of the Parthian and later Sasanian Persian empires.
  • D. Ṭarābulus
    Ṭarābulus is the Arabic name for Tripoli, a major historic port city and the capital of Libya on the Mediterranean coast.
  • E. Nineveh
    Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, famed as a major political and cultural center and once the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
  • 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_69a88a1933e0819094f18426ed74180f completed March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbe223f848190a60bd0f15aed1021 completed March 7, 2026, 5:56 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae51b8152c81908c66d389bf14dc7e completed March 9, 2026, 4:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae522f0394819087a7e7d9c6ca354c completed March 9, 2026, 4:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae5316acf881908dde9d83c36c8fd0 completed March 9, 2026, 4:56 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:44 p.m.