Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Justinianic Plague E72829 entity
Predicate spreadTo P9468 FINISHED
Object Germanic kingdoms
The Germanic kingdoms were a group of successor states established by Germanic peoples in former Western Roman territories during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, including realms such as the Visigothic, Ostrogothic, Frankish, and Vandal kingdoms.
E358478 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: Germanic kingdoms | Statement: [Justinianic Plague, spreadTo, Germanic kingdoms]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Germanic kingdoms
Context triple: [Justinianic Plague, spreadTo, Germanic kingdoms]
  • A. Germanic peoples
    The Germanic peoples are a historical group of Indo-European tribes originating in Northern Europe, whose languages and cultures gave rise to modern nations such as Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and others.
  • B. Franks
    The Franks were a confederation of Germanic tribes that rose to prominence in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, eventually forming the core of the Frankish Empire and laying foundations for modern France and Germany.
  • C. Kingdom of the Franks
    The Kingdom of the Franks was a powerful early medieval Frankish realm in Western Europe that laid the foundations for modern France and Germany under dynasties such as the Merovingians and Carolingians.
  • D. West Germanic peoples
    The West Germanic peoples were a major branch of the Germanic ethnic groups of early Europe, ancestral to modern Germans, English, Dutch, and several other Central and Western European populations.
  • E. Alemannic tribes
    The Alemannic tribes were a confederation of early Germanic peoples who settled in parts of what are now southwestern Germany, Switzerland, Alsace, and Austria, profoundly shaping the region’s language and culture.
  • 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: Germanic kingdoms
Triple: [Justinianic Plague, spreadTo, Germanic kingdoms]
Generated description
The Germanic kingdoms were a group of successor states established by Germanic peoples in former Western Roman territories during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, including realms such as the Visigothic, Ostrogothic, Frankish, and Vandal kingdoms.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Germanic kingdoms
Target entity description: The Germanic kingdoms were a group of successor states established by Germanic peoples in former Western Roman territories during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, including realms such as the Visigothic, Ostrogothic, Frankish, and Vandal kingdoms.
  • A. Germanic peoples
    The Germanic peoples are a historical group of Indo-European tribes originating in Northern Europe, whose languages and cultures gave rise to modern nations such as Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and others.
  • B. Franks
    The Franks were a confederation of Germanic tribes that rose to prominence in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, eventually forming the core of the Frankish Empire and laying foundations for modern France and Germany.
  • C. Kingdom of the Franks
    The Kingdom of the Franks was a powerful early medieval Frankish realm in Western Europe that laid the foundations for modern France and Germany under dynasties such as the Merovingians and Carolingians.
  • D. West Germanic peoples
    The West Germanic peoples were a major branch of the Germanic ethnic groups of early Europe, ancestral to modern Germans, English, Dutch, and several other Central and Western European populations.
  • E. Alemannic tribes
    The Alemannic tribes were a confederation of early Germanic peoples who settled in parts of what are now southwestern Germany, Switzerland, Alsace, and Austria, profoundly shaping the region’s language and culture.
  • 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_69ad85b12a908190a1d10a6b03b4f8ae completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbaa2f5ec81909ced93c01e8fe38b completed March 8, 2026, 6:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b360ef69308190a11f37ddbf3bbc7b completed March 13, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b361958fd88190bd4a8d9837af6610 completed March 13, 2026, 1 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b362310884819082a59ab92fe05fdd completed March 13, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:16 p.m.