Triple

T6802229
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Siege of Syracuse E156212 entity
Predicate notableTechnology P22 FINISHED
Object Archimedes’ claw
Archimedes’ claw was an ancient defensive war machine, attributed to the Greek mathematician Archimedes, designed to lift and capsize attacking ships during naval assaults on Syracuse.
E620691 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: Archimedes’ claw | Statement: [Siege of Syracuse, notableTechnology, Archimedes’ claw]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Archimedes’ claw
Context triple: [Siege of Syracuse, notableTechnology, Archimedes’ claw]
  • A. Archimedean screw
    The Archimedean screw is an ancient mechanical device, traditionally attributed to Archimedes, used to lift water or other granular materials by rotating a helical surface inside a cylinder or open trough.
  • B. Antikythera
    Antikythera is a small, sparsely populated Greek island in the Aegean Sea, historically significant for the discovery of the ancient Antikythera mechanism.
  • C. Astrolabe
    Astrolabe was a French naval exploration ship of the late 18th century, notably used in Pacific voyages of discovery.
  • D. Alcimede
    Alcimede is a figure in Greek mythology known primarily as the mother of the hero Jason, leader of the Argonauts.
  • E. bow of Heracles
    The bow of Heracles is the legendary weapon in Greek mythology whose possession is crucial for the Greeks’ victory in the Trojan War and which becomes the central object of contention in Sophocles’ tragedy "Philoctetes."
  • 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: Archimedes’ claw
Triple: [Siege of Syracuse, notableTechnology, Archimedes’ claw]
Generated description
Archimedes’ claw was an ancient defensive war machine, attributed to the Greek mathematician Archimedes, designed to lift and capsize attacking ships during naval assaults on Syracuse.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Archimedes’ claw
Target entity description: Archimedes’ claw was an ancient defensive war machine, attributed to the Greek mathematician Archimedes, designed to lift and capsize attacking ships during naval assaults on Syracuse.
  • A. Archimedean screw
    The Archimedean screw is an ancient mechanical device, traditionally attributed to Archimedes, used to lift water or other granular materials by rotating a helical surface inside a cylinder or open trough.
  • B. Antikythera
    Antikythera is a small, sparsely populated Greek island in the Aegean Sea, historically significant for the discovery of the ancient Antikythera mechanism.
  • C. Astrolabe
    Astrolabe was a French naval exploration ship of the late 18th century, notably used in Pacific voyages of discovery.
  • D. Alcimede
    Alcimede is a figure in Greek mythology known primarily as the mother of the hero Jason, leader of the Argonauts.
  • E. bow of Heracles
    The bow of Heracles is the legendary weapon in Greek mythology whose possession is crucial for the Greeks’ victory in the Trojan War and which becomes the central object of contention in Sophocles’ tragedy "Philoctetes."
  • 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_69c68826e6a48190a3d220b541e639de completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d2e714d4819084c8109c4de7de72 completed March 27, 2026, 6:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c71a9b0cc48190819380aeaf0228e7 completed March 28, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c71d64c2fc8190abda8b5a0f57291b completed March 28, 2026, 12:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c71f3d4b8081908768c79642266431 completed March 28, 2026, 12:22 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:16 p.m.