Triple

T3259273
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kingdom of Pontus E68370 entity
Predicate ruler P403 FINISHED
Object Mithridates III of Pontus
Mithridates III of Pontus was a Hellenistic monarch of the Black Sea region who ruled the Kingdom of Pontus in the 2nd century BC and helped consolidate its power before the rise of his more famous successor, Mithridates VI.
E350298 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: Mithridates III of Pontus | Statement: [Kingdom of Pontus, ruler, Mithridates III of Pontus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mithridates III of Pontus
Context triple: [Kingdom of Pontus, ruler, Mithridates III of Pontus]
  • A. Mithridates VI Eupator
    Mithridates VI Eupator was a powerful 1st-century BCE king of Pontus, famed for his fierce resistance to Roman expansion in the Mithridatic Wars and his legendary experiments with poisons and antidotes.
  • B. Mithridates I Ktistes
    Mithridates I Ktistes was the founder and first king of the Kingdom of Pontus in northern Anatolia in the early Hellenistic period.
  • C. Ariobarzanes of Pontus
    Ariobarzanes of Pontus was a Hellenistic-era monarch who briefly ruled the Kingdom of Pontus in northern Anatolia during the 3rd century BC.
  • D. Nicomedes I of Bithynia
    Nicomedes I of Bithynia was a 3rd-century BC king of Bithynia in northwestern Anatolia, noted for his ambitious state-building, dynastic struggles, and close dealings with emerging Roman power.
  • E. Pharnaces II of Pontus
    Pharnaces II of Pontus was a 1st-century BC king best known as the son of Mithridates VI and for his failed attempt to challenge Roman power, culminating in his swift defeat by Julius Caesar at the Battle of Zela.
  • 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: Mithridates III of Pontus
Triple: [Kingdom of Pontus, ruler, Mithridates III of Pontus]
Generated description
Mithridates III of Pontus was a Hellenistic monarch of the Black Sea region who ruled the Kingdom of Pontus in the 2nd century BC and helped consolidate its power before the rise of his more famous successor, Mithridates VI.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mithridates III of Pontus
Target entity description: Mithridates III of Pontus was a Hellenistic monarch of the Black Sea region who ruled the Kingdom of Pontus in the 2nd century BC and helped consolidate its power before the rise of his more famous successor, Mithridates VI.
  • A. Mithridates VI Eupator
    Mithridates VI Eupator was a powerful 1st-century BCE king of Pontus, famed for his fierce resistance to Roman expansion in the Mithridatic Wars and his legendary experiments with poisons and antidotes.
  • B. Mithridates I Ktistes
    Mithridates I Ktistes was the founder and first king of the Kingdom of Pontus in northern Anatolia in the early Hellenistic period.
  • C. Ariobarzanes of Pontus
    Ariobarzanes of Pontus was a Hellenistic-era monarch who briefly ruled the Kingdom of Pontus in northern Anatolia during the 3rd century BC.
  • D. Nicomedes I of Bithynia
    Nicomedes I of Bithynia was a 3rd-century BC king of Bithynia in northwestern Anatolia, noted for his ambitious state-building, dynastic struggles, and close dealings with emerging Roman power.
  • E. Pharnaces II of Pontus
    Pharnaces II of Pontus was a 1st-century BC king best known as the son of Mithridates VI and for his failed attempt to challenge Roman power, culminating in his swift defeat by Julius Caesar at the Battle of Zela.
  • 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_69ad858f74408190bcbd07f967cd7bd0 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adafa4f40c81909adfd0f7f568e3ce completed March 8, 2026, 5:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b324f6ce588190baf5a49b322a0c43 completed March 12, 2026, 8:41 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b325a0de7c8190a33ae611b8450b5a completed March 12, 2026, 8:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b326862e848190bf1bea74b6ab0b36 completed March 12, 2026, 8:48 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:09 p.m.