Triple

T23046998

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Aelian's On the Nature of Animals	`E573902`	entity
Predicate	author	`P4`	FINISHED
Object	Claudius Aelianus	`—`	NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Claudius Aelianus | Statement: [Aelian's On the Nature of Animals, author, Claudius Aelianus]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Claudius Aelianus
Context triple: [Aelian's On the Nature of Animals, author, Claudius Aelianus]

A. Claudius Pompeianus
Claudius Pompeianus was a prominent 2nd-century Roman general and senator, son-in-law of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who played a key military role during the Marcomannic Wars.
B. Vitellius
Vitellius was a short-lived Roman emperor in 69 AD, the tumultuous "Year of the Four Emperors," known for his downfall amid civil war and succession by Vespasian.
C. Emperor Trebonianus Gallus
Emperor Trebonianus Gallus was a mid-3rd-century Roman emperor whose short reign was marked by military crises, plague, and renewed persecution of Christians.
D. Bassianus
Bassianus is a noble Roman and the younger brother of Saturninus in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Titus Andronicus," whose marriage to Lavinia helps ignite the play’s violent political and familial conflicts.
E. Iulianus
Iulianus is a Latin masculine given name and cognomen that is the historical root of various later forms such as Juliane.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Claudius Aelianus
Target entity description: Claudius Aelianus was a Roman-era rhetorician and writer in Greek, best known for his miscellanies and works on animals and natural history.

A. Claudius Pompeianus
Claudius Pompeianus was a prominent 2nd-century Roman general and senator, son-in-law of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who played a key military role during the Marcomannic Wars.
B. Vitellius
Vitellius was a short-lived Roman emperor in 69 AD, the tumultuous "Year of the Four Emperors," known for his downfall amid civil war and succession by Vespasian.
C. Emperor Trebonianus Gallus
Emperor Trebonianus Gallus was a mid-3rd-century Roman emperor whose short reign was marked by military crises, plague, and renewed persecution of Christians.
D. Bassianus
Bassianus is a noble Roman and the younger brother of Saturninus in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Titus Andronicus," whose marriage to Lavinia helps ignite the play’s violent political and familial conflicts.
E. Iulianus
Iulianus is a Latin masculine given name and cognomen that is the historical root of various later forms such as Juliane.
F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69e245b9c11481909d06c872214d21af`	completed	April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69f18678e5c48190a96a7b4c9c82f8fe`	completed	April 29, 2026, 4:18 a.m.

Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:54 p.m.