Triple

T9054617
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Diocese of Africa E216965 entity
Predicate officeHeldBy P537 FINISHED
Object vicarius Africae
The vicarius Africae was a high-ranking late Roman imperial official who governed the Diocese of Africa on behalf of the central administration.
E775047 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: vicarius Africae | Statement: [Diocese of Africa, officeHeldBy, vicarius Africae]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: vicarius Africae
Context triple: [Diocese of Africa, officeHeldBy, vicarius Africae]
  • A. Bishop Ursicinus of Ravenna
    Bishop Ursicinus of Ravenna was a 6th-century ecclesiastical leader of the city of Ravenna in Italy, noted for his significant role in its early Christian architectural and religious development.
  • B. Bishop of Hippo Regius
    The Bishop of Hippo Regius was the leading ecclesiastical authority of the North African city of Hippo Regius, a role most famously held by the influential Christian theologian and philosopher Augustine.
  • C. Caesarius
    Caesarius was a 4th-century Christian physician and the younger brother of the theologian Gregory of Nazianzus, noted for his medical skill and piety in the Eastern Roman Empire.
  • D. Episcopus Cicestrensis
    Episcopus Cicestrensis is the Latin designation for the Bishop of Chichester, the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Chichester in the Church of England.
  • E. Eparchius Avitus
    Eparchius Avitus was a 5th-century Gallo-Roman aristocrat and military leader who briefly ruled as Western Roman Emperor from 455 to 456 AD.
  • 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: vicarius Africae
Triple: [Diocese of Africa, officeHeldBy, vicarius Africae]
Generated description
The vicarius Africae was a high-ranking late Roman imperial official who governed the Diocese of Africa on behalf of the central administration.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: vicarius Africae
Target entity description: The vicarius Africae was a high-ranking late Roman imperial official who governed the Diocese of Africa on behalf of the central administration.
  • A. Bishop Ursicinus of Ravenna
    Bishop Ursicinus of Ravenna was a 6th-century ecclesiastical leader of the city of Ravenna in Italy, noted for his significant role in its early Christian architectural and religious development.
  • B. Bishop of Hippo Regius
    The Bishop of Hippo Regius was the leading ecclesiastical authority of the North African city of Hippo Regius, a role most famously held by the influential Christian theologian and philosopher Augustine.
  • C. Caesarius
    Caesarius was a 4th-century Christian physician and the younger brother of the theologian Gregory of Nazianzus, noted for his medical skill and piety in the Eastern Roman Empire.
  • D. Episcopus Cicestrensis
    Episcopus Cicestrensis is the Latin designation for the Bishop of Chichester, the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Chichester in the Church of England.
  • E. Eparchius Avitus
    Eparchius Avitus was a 5th-century Gallo-Roman aristocrat and military leader who briefly ruled as Western Roman Emperor from 455 to 456 AD.
  • 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_69ca83d362e88190ae44b4e4dc194209 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc7a72e2dc8190a16deff8abe701b1 completed April 1, 2026, 1:52 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfebdb01a8819084365c9b73506a28 completed April 3, 2026, 4:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfeda64d488190ad6f514f2e5c6195 completed April 3, 2026, 4:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfee809b54819089d4d0d5c555e428 completed April 3, 2026, 4:44 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:10 p.m.