Triple

T9054905
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Assassination of Caracalla E216972 entity
Predicate precedes P97 FINISHED
Object Reign of Macrinus
The Reign of Macrinus was a brief period in Roman imperial history (AD 217–218) when the praetorian prefect Macrinus became emperor following Caracalla’s death, marked by military discontent and his eventual overthrow.
E775053 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: Reign of Macrinus | Statement: [Assassination of Caracalla, precedes, Reign of Macrinus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reign of Macrinus
Context triple: [Assassination of Caracalla, precedes, Reign of Macrinus]
  • A. Year of the Five Emperors
    The Year of the Five Emperors was a tumultuous period of civil war and rapid imperial succession in 193 AD that ultimately paved the way for the rise of the Severan dynasty in the Roman Empire.
  • B. Year of the Four Emperors
    The Year of the Four Emperors was a tumultuous period of civil war in 69 AD during which four different men successively claimed the Roman imperial throne before stability was restored under Vespasian.
  • C. Year of the Six Emperors
    The Year of the Six Emperors was a tumultuous period in 238 AD when rapid successions and overlapping claims to the Roman imperial throne led to extreme political instability in the empire.
  • D. Severan dynasty
    The Severan dynasty was a Roman imperial family that ruled from 193 to 235 CE, overseeing a period of military expansion, legal reform, and monumental building across the empire.
  • E. Decian persecution
    The Decian persecution was a mid-3rd-century Roman imperial campaign under Emperor Decius that sought to enforce universal pagan sacrifice and led to widespread, systematic persecution of Christians.
  • 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: Reign of Macrinus
Triple: [Assassination of Caracalla, precedes, Reign of Macrinus]
Generated description
The Reign of Macrinus was a brief period in Roman imperial history (AD 217–218) when the praetorian prefect Macrinus became emperor following Caracalla’s death, marked by military discontent and his eventual overthrow.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reign of Macrinus
Target entity description: The Reign of Macrinus was a brief period in Roman imperial history (AD 217–218) when the praetorian prefect Macrinus became emperor following Caracalla’s death, marked by military discontent and his eventual overthrow.
  • A. Year of the Five Emperors
    The Year of the Five Emperors was a tumultuous period of civil war and rapid imperial succession in 193 AD that ultimately paved the way for the rise of the Severan dynasty in the Roman Empire.
  • B. Year of the Four Emperors
    The Year of the Four Emperors was a tumultuous period of civil war in 69 AD during which four different men successively claimed the Roman imperial throne before stability was restored under Vespasian.
  • C. Year of the Six Emperors
    The Year of the Six Emperors was a tumultuous period in 238 AD when rapid successions and overlapping claims to the Roman imperial throne led to extreme political instability in the empire.
  • D. Severan dynasty
    The Severan dynasty was a Roman imperial family that ruled from 193 to 235 CE, overseeing a period of military expansion, legal reform, and monumental building across the empire.
  • E. Decian persecution
    The Decian persecution was a mid-3rd-century Roman imperial campaign under Emperor Decius that sought to enforce universal pagan sacrifice and led to widespread, systematic persecution of Christians.
  • 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_69cc7a7488188190b3dd6bc2f2377503 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.