Triple

T652270
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Flavius Josephus E11369 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Yosef ben Matityahu
Yosef ben Matityahu, better known as Flavius Josephus, was a first-century Jewish historian and former military leader whose writings are key sources on Second Temple Judaism and the First Jewish–Roman War.
E102332 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: Yosef ben Matityahu | Statement: [Flavius Josephus, birthName, Yosef ben Matityahu]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yosef ben Matityahu
Context triple: [Flavius Josephus, birthName, Yosef ben Matityahu]
  • A. Eleazar ben Ya'ir
    Eleazar ben Ya'ir was a 1st-century Jewish Zealot leader best known for commanding the Sicarii rebels at Masada during the First Jewish–Roman War.
  • B. Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon
    Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon was a prominent Orthodox rabbi, Zionist leader, and one of the signatories of the Israeli Declaration of Independence who served as Israel’s first Minister of Religions.
  • C. Moshe Cordovero
    Moshe Cordovero was a 16th-century Safed rabbi and one of the most influential systematic thinkers and codifiers of Kabbalah.
  • D. Exilarch David ben Zakkai
    Exilarch David ben Zakkai was a 10th-century leader of the Jewish community in Babylonia who headed the exilarchate and played a central role in the religious and political life of the diaspora.
  • E. Judah ha-Nasi
    Judah ha-Nasi was a prominent 2nd–3rd century CE Jewish sage and patriarch best known for redacting and organizing the foundational rabbinic text of Jewish law and tradition.
  • 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: Yosef ben Matityahu
Triple: [Flavius Josephus, birthName, Yosef ben Matityahu]
Generated description
Yosef ben Matityahu, better known as Flavius Josephus, was a first-century Jewish historian and former military leader whose writings are key sources on Second Temple Judaism and the First Jewish–Roman War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yosef ben Matityahu
Target entity description: Yosef ben Matityahu, better known as Flavius Josephus, was a first-century Jewish historian and former military leader whose writings are key sources on Second Temple Judaism and the First Jewish–Roman War.
  • A. Eleazar ben Ya'ir
    Eleazar ben Ya'ir was a 1st-century Jewish Zealot leader best known for commanding the Sicarii rebels at Masada during the First Jewish–Roman War.
  • B. Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon
    Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon was a prominent Orthodox rabbi, Zionist leader, and one of the signatories of the Israeli Declaration of Independence who served as Israel’s first Minister of Religions.
  • C. Moshe Cordovero
    Moshe Cordovero was a 16th-century Safed rabbi and one of the most influential systematic thinkers and codifiers of Kabbalah.
  • D. Exilarch David ben Zakkai
    Exilarch David ben Zakkai was a 10th-century leader of the Jewish community in Babylonia who headed the exilarchate and played a central role in the religious and political life of the diaspora.
  • E. Judah ha-Nasi
    Judah ha-Nasi was a prominent 2nd–3rd century CE Jewish sage and patriarch best known for redacting and organizing the foundational rabbinic text of Jewish law and tradition.
  • 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_69a493266a2881909daf4c40f719dee8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49f35acb08190a3a8248023ce07f9 completed March 1, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7a3a48ac88190bea34fc7df8b503e completed March 4, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7a533ce808190b4667c9485bac49d completed March 4, 2026, 3:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7a5c2a95c8190b0d0a385ef035880 completed March 4, 2026, 3:23 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.