Triple

T2376747
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Roman–Parthian War of 161–166 E46214 entity
Predicate cause P374 FINISHED
Object Parthian capture of Edessa
The Parthian capture of Edessa was a key early victory in which Parthian forces seized the strategically important city of Edessa from Roman influence, helping trigger a broader Roman–Parthian conflict in the mid-2nd century.
E261605 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: Parthian capture of Edessa | Statement: [Roman–Parthian War of 161–166, cause, Parthian capture of Edessa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Parthian capture of Edessa
Context triple: [Roman–Parthian War of 161–166, cause, Parthian capture of Edessa]
  • A. Siege of Palmyra (272)
    The Siege of Palmyra (272) was a Roman military campaign under Emperor Aurelian that recaptured the city of Palmyra and effectively ended the power of Queen Zenobia’s Palmyrene Empire.
  • B. Battle of Palmyra
    The Battle of Palmyra was a World War II engagement in 1941 in which Allied forces fought Vichy French troops for control of the strategic desert city of Palmyra in central Syria.
  • C. Parthian campaigns of Septimius Severus
    The Parthian campaigns of Septimius Severus were a series of early 3rd-century Roman military expeditions in Mesopotamia that expanded imperial control and culminated in the capture and sacking of the Parthian capital Ctesiphon.
  • D. Siege of Babylon Fortress
    The Siege of Babylon Fortress was a pivotal early 7th-century engagement in which Rashidun forces captured the Byzantine stronghold near modern Cairo, opening the way for the Muslim conquest and Islamization of Egypt.
  • E. Siege of Nicomedia
    The Siege of Nicomedia was an early 14th-century Ottoman campaign that captured the important Byzantine city of Nicomedia, marking a key step in the Ottoman expansion into northwestern Anatolia.
  • 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: Parthian capture of Edessa
Triple: [Roman–Parthian War of 161–166, cause, Parthian capture of Edessa]
Generated description
The Parthian capture of Edessa was a key early victory in which Parthian forces seized the strategically important city of Edessa from Roman influence, helping trigger a broader Roman–Parthian conflict in the mid-2nd century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Parthian capture of Edessa
Target entity description: The Parthian capture of Edessa was a key early victory in which Parthian forces seized the strategically important city of Edessa from Roman influence, helping trigger a broader Roman–Parthian conflict in the mid-2nd century.
  • A. Siege of Palmyra (272)
    The Siege of Palmyra (272) was a Roman military campaign under Emperor Aurelian that recaptured the city of Palmyra and effectively ended the power of Queen Zenobia’s Palmyrene Empire.
  • B. Battle of Palmyra
    The Battle of Palmyra was a World War II engagement in 1941 in which Allied forces fought Vichy French troops for control of the strategic desert city of Palmyra in central Syria.
  • C. Parthian campaigns of Septimius Severus
    The Parthian campaigns of Septimius Severus were a series of early 3rd-century Roman military expeditions in Mesopotamia that expanded imperial control and culminated in the capture and sacking of the Parthian capital Ctesiphon.
  • D. Siege of Babylon Fortress
    The Siege of Babylon Fortress was a pivotal early 7th-century engagement in which Rashidun forces captured the Byzantine stronghold near modern Cairo, opening the way for the Muslim conquest and Islamization of Egypt.
  • E. Siege of Nicomedia
    The Siege of Nicomedia was an early 14th-century Ottoman campaign that captured the important Byzantine city of Nicomedia, marking a key step in the Ottoman expansion into northwestern Anatolia.
  • 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_69a88a1554a48190a0180682bcf099be completed March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc794eee481908163148e1e666d9b completed March 7, 2026, 6:37 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aea8ac3e80819099065f874f9dc25d completed March 9, 2026, 11:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aeabd9a5a08190a2c6699576e36c46 completed March 9, 2026, 11:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aead3299c88190af03577eef126387 completed March 9, 2026, 11:21 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:57 p.m.