Triple

T2303995
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Roman conquest of southern Italy E51794 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Siege of Tarentum (272 BCE)
The Siege of Tarentum (272 BCE) was a decisive Roman capture of the Greek city of Tarentum that effectively ended major Greek resistance in southern Italy and consolidated Roman dominance over the region.
E253431 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: Siege of Tarentum (272 BCE) | Statement: [Roman conquest of southern Italy, hasPart, Siege of Tarentum (272 BCE)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege of Tarentum (272 BCE)
Context triple: [Roman conquest of southern Italy, hasPart, Siege of Tarentum (272 BCE)]
  • A. Siege of Brundisium
    The Siege of Brundisium was a pivotal early episode in Julius Caesar’s civil war, when Caesar blockaded Pompey’s forces in the key Adriatic port of Brundisium before Pompey escaped to Greece.
  • B. Siege of Segusio
    The Siege of Segusio was a military engagement in 312 AD during Constantine the Great’s campaign against Maxentius in northern Italy, forming part of the civil war that culminated in the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.
  • C. Siege of Massilia
    The Siege of Massilia was a key 49 BC engagement in Julius Caesar’s civil war, in which Caesar’s forces besieged and captured the strategically important Mediterranean port city of Massilia (modern Marseille).
  • D. 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.
  • E. Battle of Delium
    The Battle of Delium was a significant engagement of the Peloponnesian War in 424 BC, where Boeotian forces decisively defeated the Athenians near the sanctuary of Apollo at Delium.
  • 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: Siege of Tarentum (272 BCE)
Triple: [Roman conquest of southern Italy, hasPart, Siege of Tarentum (272 BCE)]
Generated description
The Siege of Tarentum (272 BCE) was a decisive Roman capture of the Greek city of Tarentum that effectively ended major Greek resistance in southern Italy and consolidated Roman dominance over the region.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege of Tarentum (272 BCE)
Target entity description: The Siege of Tarentum (272 BCE) was a decisive Roman capture of the Greek city of Tarentum that effectively ended major Greek resistance in southern Italy and consolidated Roman dominance over the region.
  • A. Siege of Brundisium
    The Siege of Brundisium was a pivotal early episode in Julius Caesar’s civil war, when Caesar blockaded Pompey’s forces in the key Adriatic port of Brundisium before Pompey escaped to Greece.
  • B. Siege of Segusio
    The Siege of Segusio was a military engagement in 312 AD during Constantine the Great’s campaign against Maxentius in northern Italy, forming part of the civil war that culminated in the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.
  • C. Siege of Massilia
    The Siege of Massilia was a key 49 BC engagement in Julius Caesar’s civil war, in which Caesar’s forces besieged and captured the strategically important Mediterranean port city of Massilia (modern Marseille).
  • D. 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.
  • E. Battle of Delium
    The Battle of Delium was a significant engagement of the Peloponnesian War in 424 BC, where Boeotian forces decisively defeated the Athenians near the sanctuary of Apollo at Delium.
  • 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_69a88b0bb30c81908ded03b006d29387 completed March 4, 2026, 7:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc5f2de7c819095bd74a551d8ff18 completed March 7, 2026, 6:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae7f332e788190b1dd4b8b0bbfe5d7 completed March 9, 2026, 8:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae802a066881909aa4e7b00e29306f completed March 9, 2026, 8:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae80c37ff48190a24b7806320ebc00 completed March 9, 2026, 8:11 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:49 p.m.