Triple

T9054676
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Year of the Five Emperors E216967 entity
Predicate hasEmperor P10335 FINISHED
Object Pescennius Niger
Pescennius Niger was a Roman general who briefly claimed the imperial throne during the civil wars of 193–194 CE before being defeated by Septimius Severus.
E777248 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: Pescennius Niger | Statement: [Year of the Five Emperors, hasEmperor, Pescennius Niger]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pescennius Niger
Context triple: [Year of the Five Emperors, hasEmperor, Pescennius Niger]
  • A. Lucianus
    Lucianus is an ancient Roman masculine given name that later evolved into various forms such as Lucien and Lucian.
  • B. Avidius Cassius
    Avidius Cassius was a 2nd-century Roman general and brief usurper emperor known for his successful eastern campaigns under Marcus Aurelius and his short-lived revolt against the emperor.
  • C. Libius Severus
    Libius Severus was a little-known Western Roman emperor who reigned from 461 to 465 AD as a puppet of the powerful general Ricimer during the empire’s final decline.
  • D. Lusius Quietus
    Lusius Quietus was a prominent 2nd-century Berber-Roman general and governor under Emperor Trajan, known for his key role in suppressing Jewish revolts and for briefly being a contender in imperial succession politics.
  • E. Avidius Maecianus
    Avidius Maecianus was a Roman figure of the 2nd century AD, best known as the son of the usurper emperor Avidius Cassius.
  • 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: Pescennius Niger
Triple: [Year of the Five Emperors, hasEmperor, Pescennius Niger]
Generated description
Pescennius Niger was a Roman general who briefly claimed the imperial throne during the civil wars of 193–194 CE before being defeated by Septimius Severus.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pescennius Niger
Target entity description: Pescennius Niger was a Roman general who briefly claimed the imperial throne during the civil wars of 193–194 CE before being defeated by Septimius Severus.
  • A. Lucianus
    Lucianus is an ancient Roman masculine given name that later evolved into various forms such as Lucien and Lucian.
  • B. Avidius Cassius
    Avidius Cassius was a 2nd-century Roman general and brief usurper emperor known for his successful eastern campaigns under Marcus Aurelius and his short-lived revolt against the emperor.
  • C. Libius Severus
    Libius Severus was a little-known Western Roman emperor who reigned from 461 to 465 AD as a puppet of the powerful general Ricimer during the empire’s final decline.
  • D. Lusius Quietus
    Lusius Quietus was a prominent 2nd-century Berber-Roman general and governor under Emperor Trajan, known for his key role in suppressing Jewish revolts and for briefly being a contender in imperial succession politics.
  • E. Avidius Maecianus
    Avidius Maecianus was a Roman figure of the 2nd century AD, best known as the son of the usurper emperor Avidius Cassius.
  • 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_69d0177fb9108190846fe872bb003b08 completed April 3, 2026, 7:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d01908d7b08190ab159048f25924d5 completed April 3, 2026, 7:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d019b9be10819091e25d5b3a8d26c1 completed April 3, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:10 p.m.