Triple

T4558832
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Roman lictor E120544 entity
Predicate served P17148 FINISHED
Object Roman praetors
Roman praetors were high-ranking magistrates in the Roman Republic and Empire responsible for administering justice, commanding armies, and governing provinces.
E120545 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: Roman praetors | Statement: [Roman lictor, served, Roman praetors]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roman praetors
Context triple: [Roman lictor, served, Roman praetors]
  • A. Roman consuls
    Roman consuls were the highest elected magistrates of the Roman Republic, serving as dual chief executives and military commanders who held supreme civil and military authority.
  • B. Roman aediles
    Roman aediles were elected magistrates of ancient Rome responsible for overseeing public buildings, markets, games, and the maintenance of order in the city.
  • C. Roman magistracy
    Roman magistracy was the system of elected public offices in ancient Rome through which officials exercised political, judicial, and military authority within the Republic and later the Empire.
  • D. Roman lictor
    A Roman lictor was an official bodyguard and attendant to senior magistrates, recognized for carrying the fasces as a symbol of their authority and power.
  • E. Praetorian Prefect
    The Praetorian Prefect was a powerful senior official of the Roman Empire who commanded the emperor’s elite Praetorian Guard and often wielded significant political and military influence.
  • 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: Roman praetors
Triple: [Roman lictor, served, Roman praetors]
Generated description
Roman praetors were high-ranking magistrates in the Roman Republic and Empire responsible for administering justice, commanding armies, and governing provinces.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roman praetors
Target entity description: Roman praetors were high-ranking magistrates in the Roman Republic and Empire responsible for administering justice, commanding armies, and governing provinces.
  • A. Roman consuls
    Roman consuls were the highest elected magistrates of the Roman Republic, serving as dual chief executives and military commanders who held supreme civil and military authority.
  • B. Roman aediles
    Roman aediles were elected magistrates of ancient Rome responsible for overseeing public buildings, markets, games, and the maintenance of order in the city.
  • C. Roman magistracy chosen
    Roman magistracy was the system of elected public offices in ancient Rome through which officials exercised political, judicial, and military authority within the Republic and later the Empire.
  • D. Roman lictor
    A Roman lictor was an official bodyguard and attendant to senior magistrates, recognized for carrying the fasces as a symbol of their authority and power.
  • E. Praetorian Prefect
    The Praetorian Prefect was a powerful senior official of the Roman Empire who commanded the emperor’s elite Praetorian Guard and often wielded significant political and military influence.
  • F. None of above.

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_69bd4636f1648190a701445c2fcd9c17 completed March 20, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd5829cc34819086ad2ae58446502e completed March 20, 2026, 2:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdc58c3fb08190ae1bc599d53e6e76 completed March 20, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdc975c07c8190b506bf8ece290739 completed March 20, 2026, 10:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdc9f824a081909df0ae6d89fc8448 completed March 20, 2026, 10:28 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:09 p.m.