Triple

T5655548
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject First Punic War E124609 entity
Predicate notableBattle P259 FINISHED
Object Siege of Agrigentum
The Siege of Agrigentum was a pivotal early engagement of the First Punic War in which Roman forces captured the key Carthaginian stronghold of Agrigentum in Sicily, marking Rome’s first major victory outside the Italian peninsula.
E538377 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 Agrigentum | Statement: [First Punic War, notableBattle, Siege of Agrigentum]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege of Agrigentum
Context triple: [First Punic War, notableBattle, Siege of Agrigentum]
  • A. Battle of Himera
    The Battle of Himera was a major clash in 480 BC during the Greco-Punic Wars in which Greek city-states of Sicily decisively defeated Carthaginian forces, helping to secure Greek dominance in the western Mediterranean.
  • B. Battle of Gela
    The Battle of Gela was a World War II engagement during the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943, where American forces, including II Corps, defended their beachhead against determined Axis counterattacks.
  • C. Siege of Syracuse
    The Siege of Syracuse was a major Roman military campaign during the Second Punic War, famous for the city’s prolonged resistance aided by Archimedes’ ingenious defensive war machines before its eventual capture in 212 BC.
  • D. Siege of Segusio
    The Siege of Segusio was a military engagement in 312 AD during Constantine the Great’s campaign against Maxentius in northern Italy, forming part of the civil war that culminated in the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.
  • E. Siege of Massilia
    The Siege of Massilia was a key 49 BC engagement in Julius Caesar’s civil war, in which Caesar’s forces besieged and captured the strategically important Mediterranean port city of Massilia (modern Marseille).
  • 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 Agrigentum
Triple: [First Punic War, notableBattle, Siege of Agrigentum]
Generated description
The Siege of Agrigentum was a pivotal early engagement of the First Punic War in which Roman forces captured the key Carthaginian stronghold of Agrigentum in Sicily, marking Rome’s first major victory outside the Italian peninsula.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege of Agrigentum
Target entity description: The Siege of Agrigentum was a pivotal early engagement of the First Punic War in which Roman forces captured the key Carthaginian stronghold of Agrigentum in Sicily, marking Rome’s first major victory outside the Italian peninsula.
  • A. Battle of Himera
    The Battle of Himera was a major clash in 480 BC during the Greco-Punic Wars in which Greek city-states of Sicily decisively defeated Carthaginian forces, helping to secure Greek dominance in the western Mediterranean.
  • B. Battle of Gela
    The Battle of Gela was a World War II engagement during the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943, where American forces, including II Corps, defended their beachhead against determined Axis counterattacks.
  • C. Siege of Syracuse
    The Siege of Syracuse was a major Roman military campaign during the Second Punic War, famous for the city’s prolonged resistance aided by Archimedes’ ingenious defensive war machines before its eventual capture in 212 BC.
  • D. Siege of Segusio
    The Siege of Segusio was a military engagement in 312 AD during Constantine the Great’s campaign against Maxentius in northern Italy, forming part of the civil war that culminated in the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.
  • E. Siege of Massilia
    The Siege of Massilia was a key 49 BC engagement in Julius Caesar’s civil war, in which Caesar’s forces besieged and captured the strategically important Mediterranean port city of Massilia (modern Marseille).
  • 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_69c0082774a481909d7e63fb2aad56ac completed March 22, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c022f998688190b18eb6469e8c054f completed March 22, 2026, 5:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c04d9b43288190b6d7c610546b52f2 completed March 22, 2026, 8:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c04f75610c81909eac1badb19782b6 completed March 22, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c056ae30a48190ade9923f0f24807d completed March 22, 2026, 8:53 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:42 p.m.