Triple

T3669058
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sasanian Empire E77833 entity
Predicate capital P234 FINISHED
Object Istakhr
Istakhr was an ancient city in southwestern Iran that served as an early political and religious center for the Sasanian dynasty near the ruins of Persepolis.
 E388641 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: Istakhr | Statement: [Sasanian Empire, capital, Istakhr]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Istakhr
Context triple: [Sasanian Empire, capital, Istakhr]
  • A. Hamadan
    Hamadan is an ancient city in western Iran, historically significant as a major center of Persian Jewish life and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the region.
  • B. Birjand
    Birjand is a city in eastern Iran that serves as the capital of South Khorasan Province and is known for its historical forts and saffron production.
  • C. Khorramabad
    Khorramabad is a city in western Iran and the capital of Lorestan Province, known for its mountainous surroundings and historical sites such as Falak-ol-Aflak Castle.
  • D. Rayy
    Rayy was an important medieval city near present-day Tehran that served as a major political, commercial, and intellectual hub during the Islamic Golden Age.
  • E. Sanandaj
    Sanandaj is the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan Province, known for its Kurdish culture, traditional music, and mountainous surroundings in western Iran.
  • 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: Istakhr
Triple: [Sasanian Empire, capital, Istakhr]
Generated description
Istakhr was an ancient city in southwestern Iran that served as an early political and religious center for the Sasanian dynasty near the ruins of Persepolis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Istakhr
Target entity description: Istakhr was an ancient city in southwestern Iran that served as an early political and religious center for the Sasanian dynasty near the ruins of Persepolis.
  • A. Hamadan
    Hamadan is an ancient city in western Iran, historically significant as a major center of Persian Jewish life and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the region.
  • B. Birjand
    Birjand is a city in eastern Iran that serves as the capital of South Khorasan Province and is known for its historical forts and saffron production.
  • C. Khorramabad
    Khorramabad is a city in western Iran and the capital of Lorestan Province, known for its mountainous surroundings and historical sites such as Falak-ol-Aflak Castle.
  • D. Rayy
    Rayy was an important medieval city near present-day Tehran that served as a major political, commercial, and intellectual hub during the Islamic Golden Age.
  • E. Sanandaj
    Sanandaj is the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan Province, known for its Kurdish culture, traditional music, and mountainous surroundings in western Iran.
  • 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_69ad85e083008190b2e1b7085fe500bd completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc42b3f94819091d51e488bc3f2f2 completed March 8, 2026, 6:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4f021fe148190af7ba4b36caa0ce2 completed March 14, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4f1403de08190b31120a384f08cbb completed March 14, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4f1fc2e248190a966cace3cc69449 completed March 14, 2026, 5:28 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:25 p.m.