Triple

T3756957
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chronicle E82070 entity
Predicate usesSource P409 FINISHED
Object Julius Africanus
Julius Africanus was a 3rd-century Christian historian and chronographer best known for composing an influential universal history that synthesized biblical and secular chronologies.
E386022 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: Julius Africanus | Statement: [Chronicle, usesSource, Julius Africanus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Julius Africanus
Context triple: [Chronicle, usesSource, Julius Africanus]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Lucius Seius Strabo
    Lucius Seius Strabo was a Roman equestrian and praetorian prefect under Emperor Tiberius, best known as the father of the powerful and later disgraced prefect Sejanus.
  • C. Diodorus of Tarsus
    Diodorus of Tarsus was a 4th-century Christian bishop and theologian known as a key precursor of the Antiochene school of biblical exegesis and an opponent of Arianism.
  • D. Posidonius of Apamea
    Posidonius of Apamea was a prominent Hellenistic philosopher, polymath, and influential later Stoic thinker whose work bridged Stoicism with contemporary science, history, and geography.
  • E. Marcus Annaeus Mela
    Marcus Annaeus Mela was a Roman equestrian and father of the poet Lucan, best known as the younger brother of the philosopher and statesman Seneca the Younger.
  • 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: Julius Africanus
Triple: [Chronicle, usesSource, Julius Africanus]
Generated description
Julius Africanus was a 3rd-century Christian historian and chronographer best known for composing an influential universal history that synthesized biblical and secular chronologies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Julius Africanus
Target entity description: Julius Africanus was a 3rd-century Christian historian and chronographer best known for composing an influential universal history that synthesized biblical and secular chronologies.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Lucius Seius Strabo
    Lucius Seius Strabo was a Roman equestrian and praetorian prefect under Emperor Tiberius, best known as the father of the powerful and later disgraced prefect Sejanus.
  • C. Diodorus of Tarsus
    Diodorus of Tarsus was a 4th-century Christian bishop and theologian known as a key precursor of the Antiochene school of biblical exegesis and an opponent of Arianism.
  • D. Posidonius of Apamea
    Posidonius of Apamea was a prominent Hellenistic philosopher, polymath, and influential later Stoic thinker whose work bridged Stoicism with contemporary science, history, and geography.
  • E. Marcus Annaeus Mela
    Marcus Annaeus Mela was a Roman equestrian and father of the poet Lucan, best known as the younger brother of the philosopher and statesman Seneca the Younger.
  • 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_69ad8b1db40081908b61ffa6b78afd4d completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adcbbe7a6081909b0f835a77941300 completed March 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4e50bfdb0819097bdfdd38f553ada completed March 14, 2026, 4:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4e6c7164881909f14bf5b57916ae3 completed March 14, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4e74df9b481909d5286c64ae6d91a completed March 14, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:35 p.m.