Triple

T3001852
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Artaxerxes I of Persia E81804 entity
Predicate source P409 FINISHED
Object Ctesias of Cnidus
Ctesias of Cnidus was a 5th-century BCE Greek physician and historian at the Persian court whose works, especially his Persica and Indica, provided influential but often fanciful accounts of the Achaemenid Empire and India.
E321786 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: Ctesias of Cnidus | Statement: [Artaxerxes I of Persia, source, Ctesias of Cnidus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ctesias of Cnidus
Context triple: [Artaxerxes I of Persia, source, Ctesias of Cnidus]
  • A. Herodotus
    Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian, often called the "Father of History," known for writing the seminal work "Histories" that chronicles the Greco-Persian Wars and various cultures of the ancient world.
  • B. Hecataeus of Miletus
    Hecataeus of Miletus was an early 5th-century BCE Greek historian and geographer, known for his pioneering works in ethnography and world geography.
  • C. Dionysius of Halicarnassus
    Dionysius of Halicarnassus was a Greek historian and rhetorician of the 1st century BC, best known for his work "Roman Antiquities," which offers a detailed account of early Roman history and institutions.
  • D. Diodorus of Tarsus
    Diodorus of Tarsus was a 4th-century Christian bishop and theologian known as a key precursor of the Antiochene school of biblical exegesis and an opponent of Arianism.
  • E. Strabo
    Strabo was an ancient Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian best known for his 17-volume work "Geographica," which described the peoples and places of the known world in his time.
  • 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: Ctesias of Cnidus
Triple: [Artaxerxes I of Persia, source, Ctesias of Cnidus]
Generated description
Ctesias of Cnidus was a 5th-century BCE Greek physician and historian at the Persian court whose works, especially his Persica and Indica, provided influential but often fanciful accounts of the Achaemenid Empire and India.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ctesias of Cnidus
Target entity description: Ctesias of Cnidus was a 5th-century BCE Greek physician and historian at the Persian court whose works, especially his Persica and Indica, provided influential but often fanciful accounts of the Achaemenid Empire and India.
  • A. Herodotus
    Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian, often called the "Father of History," known for writing the seminal work "Histories" that chronicles the Greco-Persian Wars and various cultures of the ancient world.
  • B. Hecataeus of Miletus
    Hecataeus of Miletus was an early 5th-century BCE Greek historian and geographer, known for his pioneering works in ethnography and world geography.
  • C. Dionysius of Halicarnassus
    Dionysius of Halicarnassus was a Greek historian and rhetorician of the 1st century BC, best known for his work "Roman Antiquities," which offers a detailed account of early Roman history and institutions.
  • D. Diodorus of Tarsus
    Diodorus of Tarsus was a 4th-century Christian bishop and theologian known as a key precursor of the Antiochene school of biblical exegesis and an opponent of Arianism.
  • E. Strabo
    Strabo was an ancient Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian best known for his 17-volume work "Geographica," which described the peoples and places of the known world in his time.
  • 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_69ad8b1c4de88190a83b7cefaa1f2842 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9a11b4bc81909ce06121361b4e0f completed March 8, 2026, 3:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1dea057a48190a7911d8d6046dd3d completed March 11, 2026, 9:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1e6b8848481908871662d94f866c1 completed March 11, 2026, 10:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1e6fee8148190b9f241aa52198432 completed March 11, 2026, 10:04 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:59 p.m.