Triple

T3687386
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pherae E78256 entity
Predicate ruler P403 FINISHED
Object Alexander of Pherae
Alexander of Pherae was a 4th-century BC tyrant of the Thessalian city of Pherae, notorious in ancient sources for his cruelty and oppressive rule.
E394307 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: Alexander of Pherae | Statement: [Pherae, ruler, Alexander of Pherae]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander of Pherae
Context triple: [Pherae, ruler, Alexander of Pherae]
  • A. Jason of Pherae
    Jason of Pherae was a powerful 4th-century BC Thessalian leader and military commander who unified much of Thessaly and briefly emerged as a major rival to other Greek powers before his assassination.
  • B. Alexander of Epirus
    Alexander of Epirus was a 4th-century BC Molossian king and uncle of Alexander the Great, known for his campaigns in southern Italy against various Italic peoples.
  • C. Leonidas of Tarentum
    Leonidas of Tarentum was an ancient Greek epigrammatist of the Hellenistic period, known for his concise, often melancholic poems preserved in the Greek Anthology.
  • D. Nicesipolis of Pherae
    Nicesipolis of Pherae was a Thessalian noblewoman and wife of Philip II of Macedon, known as the mother of their daughter Thessalonike.
  • E. Demetrius of Phalerum
    Demetrius of Phalerum was an Athenian orator, statesman, and philosopher of the Peripatetic school who governed Athens under Macedonian rule and later became an influential scholar at the Ptolemaic court in Alexandria.
  • 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: Alexander of Pherae
Triple: [Pherae, ruler, Alexander of Pherae]
Generated description
Alexander of Pherae was a 4th-century BC tyrant of the Thessalian city of Pherae, notorious in ancient sources for his cruelty and oppressive rule.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander of Pherae
Target entity description: Alexander of Pherae was a 4th-century BC tyrant of the Thessalian city of Pherae, notorious in ancient sources for his cruelty and oppressive rule.
  • A. Jason of Pherae
    Jason of Pherae was a powerful 4th-century BC Thessalian leader and military commander who unified much of Thessaly and briefly emerged as a major rival to other Greek powers before his assassination.
  • B. Alexander of Epirus
    Alexander of Epirus was a 4th-century BC Molossian king and uncle of Alexander the Great, known for his campaigns in southern Italy against various Italic peoples.
  • C. Leonidas of Tarentum
    Leonidas of Tarentum was an ancient Greek epigrammatist of the Hellenistic period, known for his concise, often melancholic poems preserved in the Greek Anthology.
  • D. Nicesipolis of Pherae
    Nicesipolis of Pherae was a Thessalian noblewoman and wife of Philip II of Macedon, known as the mother of their daughter Thessalonike.
  • E. Demetrius of Phalerum
    Demetrius of Phalerum was an Athenian orator, statesman, and philosopher of the Peripatetic school who governed Athens under Macedonian rule and later became an influential scholar at the Ptolemaic court in Alexandria.
  • 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_69ad85e285a081908f8cbfa9e2ed9b75 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc4c7e2bc81909356c8b0ed90feed completed March 8, 2026, 6:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5120d23f481908f71e291c089505c completed March 14, 2026, 7:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b512a91f6881909a1b8b0eebc5ba71 completed March 14, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b513618b888190acda94dcc91d24d2 completed March 14, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:26 p.m.