Triple

T6288180
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dialogus de oratoribus E140950 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Maternus
Maternus is a character in Tacitus’ *Dialogus de oratoribus*, depicted as an orator and dramatist whose views help explore the decline of Roman eloquence.
 E581588 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: Maternus | Statement: [Dialogus de oratoribus, featuresCharacter, Maternus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Maternus
Context triple: [Dialogus de oratoribus, featuresCharacter, Maternus]
  • A. Incilius
    Incilius is a genus of true toads native mainly to the Americas, including species such as the Sonoran Desert toad.
  • B. Albinus
    Albinus is an alternative name for Alcuin of York, the influential 8th-century Anglo-Saxon scholar, theologian, and advisor at Charlemagne’s court.
  • C. Lollius
    Lollius was the Roman gens (family line) to which the aristocratic woman and briefly reigning empress Lollia Paulina belonged.
  • D. Sabinus
    Sabinus is a cognomen used by members of the ancient Roman Claudian gens, identifying a particular family branch within this prominent patrician lineage.
  • E. Faustulus
    Faustulus is the shepherd in Roman mythology who discovers the abandoned twins Romulus and Remus and secretly raises them.
  • 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: Maternus
Triple: [Dialogus de oratoribus, featuresCharacter, Maternus]
Generated description
Maternus is a character in Tacitus’ *Dialogus de oratoribus*, depicted as an orator and dramatist whose views help explore the decline of Roman eloquence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Maternus
Target entity description: Maternus is a character in Tacitus’ *Dialogus de oratoribus*, depicted as an orator and dramatist whose views help explore the decline of Roman eloquence.
  • A. Incilius
    Incilius is a genus of true toads native mainly to the Americas, including species such as the Sonoran Desert toad.
  • B. Albinus
    Albinus is an alternative name for Alcuin of York, the influential 8th-century Anglo-Saxon scholar, theologian, and advisor at Charlemagne’s court.
  • C. Lollius
    Lollius was the Roman gens (family line) to which the aristocratic woman and briefly reigning empress Lollia Paulina belonged.
  • D. Sabinus
    Sabinus is a cognomen used by members of the ancient Roman Claudian gens, identifying a particular family branch within this prominent patrician lineage.
  • E. Faustulus
    Faustulus is the shepherd in Roman mythology who discovers the abandoned twins Romulus and Remus and secretly raises them.
  • 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_69c008cd17c8819082b82d3fbeb68047 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c064182f60819093a8313e1dbf2763 completed March 22, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c51973a364819099dc5a99858e9a7a completed March 26, 2026, 11:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c51e8acc98819098c22c7895da3ab1 completed March 26, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c51f2512648190b8c78b34c00f3a07 completed March 26, 2026, 11:57 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:26 p.m.