Triple

T8915668
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Maharbal E212289 entity
Predicate sideInConflict P375 FINISHED
Object Carthage in the Second Punic War E38022 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Carthage in the Second Punic War | Statement: [Maharbal, sideInConflict, Carthage in the Second Punic War]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Carthage in the Second Punic War
Context triple: [Maharbal, sideInConflict, Carthage in the Second Punic War]
  • A. Roman siege of Carthage
    The Roman siege of Carthage was the brutal, years-long assault (149–146 BC) in which Rome captured and destroyed the North African city of Carthage, ending the Third Punic War and Carthaginian power.
  • B. Punic Sicily
    Punic Sicily was the Carthaginian-controlled region of western Sicily that served as a major center of Phoenician-Punic culture and a strategic hub in the conflicts with Greek city-states and later Rome.
  • C. Carthaginian campaigns in Hispania
    The Carthaginian campaigns in Hispania were a series of military and political operations led chiefly by the Barcid family to expand and consolidate Carthaginian power on the Iberian Peninsula in the decades before the Second Punic War.
  • D. Second Punic War chosen
    The Second Punic War was a major conflict between Carthage and the Roman Republic (218–201 BC), famed for Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps and Rome’s eventual emergence as the dominant Mediterranean power.
  • E. Third Punic War
    The Third Punic War was the final conflict between Rome and Carthage (149–146 BCE), culminating in Rome’s destruction of Carthage and its emergence as the dominant power in the western Mediterranean.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69ca8393b1808190bd4336787ffa2c40 elicitation completed
NER batch_69cc660f6a088190b0af829ea809d8ad ner completed
NED1 batch_69cfba4567a88190855b964bc6e3ac6f ned_source_triple completed
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:56 p.m.