Triple

T3720530
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Against Apion E81626 entity
Predicate criticizes P437 FINISHED
Object Apion of Alexandria
Apion of Alexandria was a 1st-century AD Greek grammarian and sophist from Roman Egypt, known for his rhetorical skill, scholarship on Homer, and polemical writings against Jews.
E381207 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: Apion of Alexandria | Statement: [Against Apion, criticizes, Apion of Alexandria]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Apion of Alexandria
Context triple: [Against Apion, criticizes, Apion of Alexandria]
  • A. Alexander of Alexandria
    Alexander of Alexandria was a 4th-century Patriarch of Alexandria best known for his staunch defense of Nicene orthodoxy and his early opposition to the teachings of Arius.
  • B. Appian of Alexandria
    Appian of Alexandria was a 2nd-century AD Greek historian and Roman official best known for his multi-volume work "Roman History," which chronicles Rome’s rise and its civil wars.
  • C. Cyrus of Alexandria
    Cyrus of Alexandria was a 7th-century patriarch and theologian known for promoting the Monothelite doctrine later rejected as heretical by the church.
  • D. Numenius of Apamea
    Numenius of Apamea was a 2nd-century Platonist philosopher whose synthesis of Platonism with Pythagorean and Eastern religious ideas helped lay important groundwork for later Neoplatonism.
  • E. Dioscorus of Alexandria
    Dioscorus of Alexandria was a 5th-century Coptic patriarch of Alexandria whose controversial leadership and Christological views played a central role in the theological conflicts surrounding the Council of Chalcedon.
  • 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: Apion of Alexandria
Triple: [Against Apion, criticizes, Apion of Alexandria]
Generated description
Apion of Alexandria was a 1st-century AD Greek grammarian and sophist from Roman Egypt, known for his rhetorical skill, scholarship on Homer, and polemical writings against Jews.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Apion of Alexandria
Target entity description: Apion of Alexandria was a 1st-century AD Greek grammarian and sophist from Roman Egypt, known for his rhetorical skill, scholarship on Homer, and polemical writings against Jews.
  • A. Alexander of Alexandria
    Alexander of Alexandria was a 4th-century Patriarch of Alexandria best known for his staunch defense of Nicene orthodoxy and his early opposition to the teachings of Arius.
  • B. Appian of Alexandria
    Appian of Alexandria was a 2nd-century AD Greek historian and Roman official best known for his multi-volume work "Roman History," which chronicles Rome’s rise and its civil wars.
  • C. Cyrus of Alexandria
    Cyrus of Alexandria was a 7th-century patriarch and theologian known for promoting the Monothelite doctrine later rejected as heretical by the church.
  • D. Numenius of Apamea
    Numenius of Apamea was a 2nd-century Platonist philosopher whose synthesis of Platonism with Pythagorean and Eastern religious ideas helped lay important groundwork for later Neoplatonism.
  • E. Dioscorus of Alexandria
    Dioscorus of Alexandria was a 5th-century Coptic patriarch of Alexandria whose controversial leadership and Christological views played a central role in the theological conflicts surrounding the Council of Chalcedon.
  • 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_69ad8b1b7ef081908d2d381bbf54985a completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adca9b5ca8819094299fffc02606ce completed March 8, 2026, 7:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4ce184c9c8190813ce589c48007c1 completed March 14, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4ce9188288190a354d747ade5043b completed March 14, 2026, 2:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4cefbf6f081909aed20f8c455d5b8 completed March 14, 2026, 2:59 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:34 p.m.