Triple

T4799555
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Roman Syria E106798 entity
Predicate borderedBy P224 FINISHED
Object Roman province of Cilicia
The Roman province of Cilicia was a southeastern Anatolian coastal region of the Roman Empire, centered around Tarsus, that served as a key strategic and commercial crossroads between Asia Minor, Syria, and the eastern Mediterranean.
E469044 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 province of Cilicia | Statement: [Roman Syria, borderedBy, Roman province of Cilicia]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roman province of Cilicia
Context triple: [Roman Syria, borderedBy, Roman province of Cilicia]
  • A. Roman province of Asia
    The Roman province of Asia was a wealthy and culturally significant region in western Anatolia, encompassing major ancient cities such as Ephesus, Pergamon, and Smyrna under Roman rule.
  • B. Roman province of Cappadocia
    The Roman province of Cappadocia was an imperial administrative region in central Anatolia, known for its strategic military importance on the eastern frontier and its role as a crossroads of Greco-Roman and Near Eastern cultures.
  • C. Roman province of Osrhoene
    The Roman province of Osrhoene was a frontier region in Upper Mesopotamia centered on the city of Edessa, known as a cultural and religious crossroads between the Roman and Persian worlds.
  • D. Roman province of Bithynia and Pontus
    The Roman province of Bithynia and Pontus was an imperial administrative region in northwestern Anatolia that combined the former Hellenistic territories of Bithynia and Pontus under Roman rule.
  • E. Byzantine province of Palaestina Prima
    The Byzantine province of Palaestina Prima was an administrative region of the Eastern Roman Empire in the Levant, centered on major cities such as Caesarea Maritima and Jerusalem during Late Antiquity.
  • 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 province of Cilicia
Triple: [Roman Syria, borderedBy, Roman province of Cilicia]
Generated description
The Roman province of Cilicia was a southeastern Anatolian coastal region of the Roman Empire, centered around Tarsus, that served as a key strategic and commercial crossroads between Asia Minor, Syria, and the eastern Mediterranean.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roman province of Cilicia
Target entity description: The Roman province of Cilicia was a southeastern Anatolian coastal region of the Roman Empire, centered around Tarsus, that served as a key strategic and commercial crossroads between Asia Minor, Syria, and the eastern Mediterranean.
  • A. Roman province of Asia
    The Roman province of Asia was a wealthy and culturally significant region in western Anatolia, encompassing major ancient cities such as Ephesus, Pergamon, and Smyrna under Roman rule.
  • B. Roman province of Cappadocia
    The Roman province of Cappadocia was an imperial administrative region in central Anatolia, known for its strategic military importance on the eastern frontier and its role as a crossroads of Greco-Roman and Near Eastern cultures.
  • C. Roman province of Osrhoene
    The Roman province of Osrhoene was a frontier region in Upper Mesopotamia centered on the city of Edessa, known as a cultural and religious crossroads between the Roman and Persian worlds.
  • D. Roman province of Bithynia and Pontus
    The Roman province of Bithynia and Pontus was an imperial administrative region in northwestern Anatolia that combined the former Hellenistic territories of Bithynia and Pontus under Roman rule.
  • E. Byzantine province of Palaestina Prima
    The Byzantine province of Palaestina Prima was an administrative region of the Eastern Roman Empire in the Levant, centered on major cities such as Caesarea Maritima and Jerusalem during Late Antiquity.
  • 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_69bd43f6a1e08190bf0a372bfc336ee5 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd663512d0819099064903613108d9 completed March 20, 2026, 3:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be43fc9e448190b9bfd2ff59ab4146 completed March 21, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be447c21d48190ab57c8761e733ff4 completed March 21, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be45f5ebec8190b62c428b465d1bd9 completed March 21, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:23 p.m.