Triple

T561578
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Trajan E13462 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder
Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder was a Roman senator and general of Spanish origin, best known as the father of the emperor Trajan.
E77329 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: Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder | Statement: [Trajan, father, Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder
Context triple: [Trajan, father, Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder]
  • A. Nerva
    Nerva was a Roman emperor (reigning 96–98 AD) whose brief rule initiated the era of the "Five Good Emperors" and marked a transition to more stable, adoptive succession.
  • B. Trajan
    Trajan was a highly esteemed Roman emperor known for expanding the empire to its greatest territorial extent and overseeing a period of military success and public building projects.
  • C. Hadrian
    Hadrian was a 2nd-century Roman emperor best known for consolidating and fortifying the empire’s frontiers, including commissioning Hadrian’s Wall in Britain, and for his extensive building projects and patronage of Greek culture.
  • D. Pompeia Plotina
    Pompeia Plotina was a Roman empress, renowned for her virtue and influence, who was married to Emperor Trajan and played a key role in the adoption of his successor Hadrian.
  • E. Titus Flavius Sabinus (father of Vespasian)
    Titus Flavius Sabinus was a Roman equestrian and tax collector from the Flavian family, best known as the father of the future emperor Vespasian.
  • 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: Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder
Triple: [Trajan, father, Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder]
Generated description
Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder was a Roman senator and general of Spanish origin, best known as the father of the emperor Trajan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder
Target entity description: Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder was a Roman senator and general of Spanish origin, best known as the father of the emperor Trajan.
  • A. Nerva
    Nerva was a Roman emperor (reigning 96–98 AD) whose brief rule initiated the era of the "Five Good Emperors" and marked a transition to more stable, adoptive succession.
  • B. Trajan
    Trajan was a highly esteemed Roman emperor known for expanding the empire to its greatest territorial extent and overseeing a period of military success and public building projects.
  • C. Hadrian
    Hadrian was a 2nd-century Roman emperor best known for consolidating and fortifying the empire’s frontiers, including commissioning Hadrian’s Wall in Britain, and for his extensive building projects and patronage of Greek culture.
  • D. Pompeia Plotina
    Pompeia Plotina was a Roman empress, renowned for her virtue and influence, who was married to Emperor Trajan and played a key role in the adoption of his successor Hadrian.
  • E. Titus Flavius Sabinus (father of Vespasian)
    Titus Flavius Sabinus was a Roman equestrian and tax collector from the Flavian family, best known as the father of the future emperor Vespasian.
  • 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_69a4933edcf08190b35ecfd6014caee6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a499e2795c8190903240e79964156d completed March 1, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a55a734f6c8190a141dafc03dd2e77 completed March 2, 2026, 9:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a55b3c0d008190bb5fca8cb4aa6df5 completed March 2, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a55b8812648190b4b35f630f0003a0 completed March 2, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.