Triple

T4856633
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sixth Syrian War E108551 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Siege of Alexandria (168 BCE)
The Siege of Alexandria (168 BCE) was a pivotal military confrontation in which the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes besieged the Ptolemaic capital of Egypt, prompting decisive Roman intervention that effectively ended his campaign and reshaped the balance of power in the Hellenistic world.
E476256 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: Siege of Alexandria (168 BCE) | Statement: [Sixth Syrian War, significantEvent, Siege of Alexandria (168 BCE)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege of Alexandria (168 BCE)
Context triple: [Sixth Syrian War, significantEvent, Siege of Alexandria (168 BCE)]
  • A. Battle of Antioch (145 BCE)
    The Battle of Antioch (145 BCE) was a decisive Hellenistic-era clash near the Seleucid capital that helped determine control of the Seleucid Empire during the later stages of the Syrian Wars.
  • B. Battle of Pelusium (170 BCE)
    The Battle of Pelusium (170 BCE) was a key clash between the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Seleucid Empire in the Sixth Syrian War, marking a major Seleucid victory that helped Antiochus IV temporarily dominate Egypt.
  • C. Siege of Rhodes (305–304 BC)
    The Siege of Rhodes (305–304 BC) was a major Hellenistic conflict in which Demetrius I of Macedon unsuccessfully besieged the island city of Rhodes, leading to its celebrated defense and later commemoration through monumental works.
  • D. Siege of Alexandria (641–642)
    The Siege of Alexandria (641–642) was the decisive Rashidun Caliphate assault that captured Byzantine Egypt’s capital, ending centuries of Roman rule and securing Muslim control over the province.
  • E. Siege of Tarentum (272 BCE)
    The Siege of Tarentum (272 BCE) was a decisive Roman capture of the Greek city of Tarentum that effectively ended major Greek resistance in southern Italy and consolidated Roman dominance over the region.
  • 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: Siege of Alexandria (168 BCE)
Triple: [Sixth Syrian War, significantEvent, Siege of Alexandria (168 BCE)]
Generated description
The Siege of Alexandria (168 BCE) was a pivotal military confrontation in which the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes besieged the Ptolemaic capital of Egypt, prompting decisive Roman intervention that effectively ended his campaign and reshaped the balance of power in the Hellenistic world.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege of Alexandria (168 BCE)
Target entity description: The Siege of Alexandria (168 BCE) was a pivotal military confrontation in which the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes besieged the Ptolemaic capital of Egypt, prompting decisive Roman intervention that effectively ended his campaign and reshaped the balance of power in the Hellenistic world.
  • A. Battle of Antioch (145 BCE)
    The Battle of Antioch (145 BCE) was a decisive Hellenistic-era clash near the Seleucid capital that helped determine control of the Seleucid Empire during the later stages of the Syrian Wars.
  • B. Battle of Pelusium (170 BCE)
    The Battle of Pelusium (170 BCE) was a key clash between the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Seleucid Empire in the Sixth Syrian War, marking a major Seleucid victory that helped Antiochus IV temporarily dominate Egypt.
  • C. Siege of Rhodes (305–304 BC)
    The Siege of Rhodes (305–304 BC) was a major Hellenistic conflict in which Demetrius I of Macedon unsuccessfully besieged the island city of Rhodes, leading to its celebrated defense and later commemoration through monumental works.
  • D. Siege of Alexandria (641–642)
    The Siege of Alexandria (641–642) was the decisive Rashidun Caliphate assault that captured Byzantine Egypt’s capital, ending centuries of Roman rule and securing Muslim control over the province.
  • E. Siege of Tarentum (272 BCE)
    The Siege of Tarentum (272 BCE) was a decisive Roman capture of the Greek city of Tarentum that effectively ended major Greek resistance in southern Italy and consolidated Roman dominance over the region.
  • 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_69bd440a89548190a5f14ba6da6b97dc completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d3f24688190b2f2b79bcde96973 completed March 20, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be67dd3df4819092a59dfb85d10683 completed March 21, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be695f90e88190912cac612ea680f2 completed March 21, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be69b578708190951ebc93ecbaee7d completed March 21, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:26 p.m.