Triple
T23432671
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | CIL VIII |
E563374
|
entity |
| Predicate | coversRegion |
P285
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Africa Proconsularis |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
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: Africa Proconsularis | Statement: [CIL VIII, coversRegion, Africa Proconsularis]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Africa Proconsularis Context triple: [CIL VIII, coversRegion, Africa Proconsularis]
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A.
Africa Proconsularis
chosen
Africa Proconsularis was a wealthy Roman province in North Africa, centered on modern-day Tunisia and parts of Libya, known for its prosperous cities, agriculture, and strategic importance to the Roman Empire.
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B.
Punic Africa
Punic Africa was the Carthaginian-controlled region of North Africa, centered on the city of Carthage, that served as a major Mediterranean power and hub of trade and warfare in antiquity.
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C.
Arabia Felix
"Arabia Felix" is a 1932 travel and exploration book by British civil servant and explorer Bertram Thomas, recounting his pioneering journey across the southern Arabian Peninsula.
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D.
Nubia
Nubia is a historic region along the Nile in southern Egypt and northern Sudan, renowned for its ancient civilizations, archaeological sites, and monumental temples.
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E.
Africa Vetus
Africa Vetus was the Roman Republic’s original African province centered on Carthage, later distinguished from the adjacent territory known as Africa Nova.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69e24553980c8190bb66a2ae0bdab125 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f1a5d920548190904f80c7c40cba06 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 6:31 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:49 p.m.