Triple

T6447512
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Confessions E139778 entity
Predicate notableCharacter P1481 FINISHED
Object Alypius
Alypius is a close friend and companion of Saint Augustine, prominently featured in the Confessions for his moral struggles, conversion, and later role as a bishop.
 E594048 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: Alypius | Statement: [Confessions, notableCharacter, Alypius]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alypius
Context triple: [Confessions, notableCharacter, Alypius]
  • A. Sabbatius
    Sabbatius was the father of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I and a man of humble Illyrian or Thracian origin whose lineage did not belong to the traditional Roman aristocracy.
  • 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. Germainus
    Germainus is a Latinized form of the name Germain, historically used as a given name in Roman and early Christian contexts.
  • E. Azemilcus of Tyre
    Azemilcus of Tyre was the Phoenician king who ruled Tyre during Alexander the Great’s campaign and led the city’s resistance in the famous siege.
  • 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: Alypius
Triple: [Confessions, notableCharacter, Alypius]
Generated description
Alypius is a close friend and companion of Saint Augustine, prominently featured in the Confessions for his moral struggles, conversion, and later role as a bishop.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alypius
Target entity description: Alypius is a close friend and companion of Saint Augustine, prominently featured in the Confessions for his moral struggles, conversion, and later role as a bishop.
  • A. Sabbatius
    Sabbatius was the father of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I and a man of humble Illyrian or Thracian origin whose lineage did not belong to the traditional Roman aristocracy.
  • 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. Germainus
    Germainus is a Latinized form of the name Germain, historically used as a given name in Roman and early Christian contexts.
  • E. Azemilcus of Tyre
    Azemilcus of Tyre was the Phoenician king who ruled Tyre during Alexander the Great’s campaign and led the city’s resistance in the famous siege.
  • 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_69c008b301948190a35854e5284dc822 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c069afd8c48190b3cab580c813ecab completed March 22, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c64bcfc7388190877ad702ea44802d completed March 27, 2026, 9:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c64c5e5e5c8190b24aea7e4114daa5 completed March 27, 2026, 9:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c64da81a0881908fc5716aeb0e47fa completed March 27, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:47 p.m.