Triple
T9448489
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Lucius Flavius Silva |
E227825
|
entity |
| Predicate | used |
P98
|
FINISHED |
| Object | siege ramp at Masada |
E224619
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: siege ramp at Masada | Statement: [Lucius Flavius Silva, used, siege ramp at Masada]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: siege ramp at Masada Context triple: [Lucius Flavius Silva, used, siege ramp at Masada]
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A.
Masada
Masada is an ancient desert fortress in Israel, famed as the site of the Jewish rebels’ last stand against the Romans and now a major archaeological and UNESCO World Heritage site.
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B.
Herodium
Herodium is an ancient fortress-palace and desert stronghold built by King Herod the Great near Bethlehem, notable for its distinctive conical artificial hill and archaeological remains.
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C.
Mughrabi Ramp
Mughrabi Ramp is an access structure in Jerusalem’s Old City that connects the Western Wall Plaza to the Mughrabi Gate of the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif and is often at the center of religious and political sensitivities.
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D.
Siege of Masada
chosen
The Siege of Masada was the Roman army’s prolonged assault (73–74 CE) on a mountaintop fortress held by Jewish rebels, ending in the mass suicide of the defenders and becoming a powerful symbol of Jewish resistance.
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E.
Machaerus
Machaerus was a fortified hilltop palace and fortress in Perea, east of the Dead Sea, best known as a Herodian stronghold and the traditional site of John the Baptist’s imprisonment and execution.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca8439f8bc8190997f2ef40c9f0bc2 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:10 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd7f62dfa48190bf318777d97f0f2a |
completed | April 1, 2026, 8:26 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d1106f38448190bfdc289eb987e33f |
completed | April 4, 2026, 1:21 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:51 p.m.