Triple

T2376768
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Roman–Parthian War of 161–166 E46214 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Outbreak of Antonine Plague
The Outbreak of the Antonine Plague was a devastating epidemic, likely smallpox, that swept through the Roman Empire in the late 2nd century CE, causing massive mortality and significant social and military disruption.
E261610 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: Outbreak of Antonine Plague | Statement: [Roman–Parthian War of 161–166, significantEvent, Outbreak of Antonine Plague]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Outbreak of Antonine Plague
Context triple: [Roman–Parthian War of 161–166, significantEvent, Outbreak of Antonine Plague]
  • A. Justinianic Plague
    The Justinianic Plague was a devastating 6th-century pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the Byzantine Empire and Mediterranean world, often considered a precursor to the later Black Death.
  • B. Black Death
    The Black Death was a devastating 14th-century pandemic of bubonic plague that killed tens of millions of people in Europe, Asia, and North Africa and profoundly reshaped medieval society.
  • C. Third Plague Pandemic
    The Third Plague Pandemic was a global outbreak of bubonic plague that began in China in the mid-19th century, spread worldwide via trade routes, and led to the modern scientific understanding of plague and its transmission.
  • D. La Contagion sacrée
    La Contagion sacrée is an 18th-century philosophical critique of religion by Baron d'Holbach that attacks superstition and the social and moral harms of organized faith.
  • E. Between Three Plagues
    "Between Three Plagues" is a historical novel by Estonian writer Jaan Kross that vividly reconstructs 16th-century Baltic life through the story of scholar and printer Balthasar Russow amid political and religious upheaval.
  • 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: Outbreak of Antonine Plague
Triple: [Roman–Parthian War of 161–166, significantEvent, Outbreak of Antonine Plague]
Generated description
The Outbreak of the Antonine Plague was a devastating epidemic, likely smallpox, that swept through the Roman Empire in the late 2nd century CE, causing massive mortality and significant social and military disruption.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Outbreak of Antonine Plague
Target entity description: The Outbreak of the Antonine Plague was a devastating epidemic, likely smallpox, that swept through the Roman Empire in the late 2nd century CE, causing massive mortality and significant social and military disruption.
  • A. Justinianic Plague
    The Justinianic Plague was a devastating 6th-century pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the Byzantine Empire and Mediterranean world, often considered a precursor to the later Black Death.
  • B. Black Death
    The Black Death was a devastating 14th-century pandemic of bubonic plague that killed tens of millions of people in Europe, Asia, and North Africa and profoundly reshaped medieval society.
  • C. Third Plague Pandemic
    The Third Plague Pandemic was a global outbreak of bubonic plague that began in China in the mid-19th century, spread worldwide via trade routes, and led to the modern scientific understanding of plague and its transmission.
  • D. La Contagion sacrée
    La Contagion sacrée is an 18th-century philosophical critique of religion by Baron d'Holbach that attacks superstition and the social and moral harms of organized faith.
  • E. Between Three Plagues
    "Between Three Plagues" is a historical novel by Estonian writer Jaan Kross that vividly reconstructs 16th-century Baltic life through the story of scholar and printer Balthasar Russow amid political and religious upheaval.
  • 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.