Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject vigiles E228781 entity
Predicate commandedBy P1407 FINISHED
Object praefectus vigilum
The praefectus vigilum was the senior Roman official who headed the city’s night watch and firefighting corps, overseeing public order and emergency response in Rome.
E802239 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: praefectus vigilum | Statement: [vigiles, commandedBy, praefectus vigilum]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: praefectus vigilum
Context triple: [vigiles, commandedBy, praefectus vigilum]
  • A. Praetorian Prefect
    The Praetorian Prefect was a powerful senior official of the Roman Empire who commanded the emperor’s elite Praetorian Guard and often wielded significant political and military influence.
  • B. praefectus classis
    The praefectus classis was a senior Roman imperial official who commanded a fleet and oversaw naval operations and administration.
  • C. Roman lictor
    A Roman lictor was an official bodyguard and attendant to senior magistrates, recognized for carrying the fasces as a symbol of their authority and power.
  • D. Praetorian Guard
    The Praetorian Guard was an elite unit of the Roman army that served as the personal bodyguard and powerful political enforcer for Roman emperors.
  • E. Palatine Guard
    The Palatine Guard was a former military unit of the Papal States that served as part of the Pope’s personal armed forces until its disbandment in the 20th century.
  • 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: praefectus vigilum
Triple: [vigiles, commandedBy, praefectus vigilum]
Generated description
The praefectus vigilum was the senior Roman official who headed the city’s night watch and firefighting corps, overseeing public order and emergency response in Rome.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: praefectus vigilum
Target entity description: The praefectus vigilum was the senior Roman official who headed the city’s night watch and firefighting corps, overseeing public order and emergency response in Rome.
  • A. Praetorian Prefect
    The Praetorian Prefect was a powerful senior official of the Roman Empire who commanded the emperor’s elite Praetorian Guard and often wielded significant political and military influence.
  • B. praefectus classis
    The praefectus classis was a senior Roman imperial official who commanded a fleet and oversaw naval operations and administration.
  • C. Roman lictor
    A Roman lictor was an official bodyguard and attendant to senior magistrates, recognized for carrying the fasces as a symbol of their authority and power.
  • D. Praetorian Guard
    The Praetorian Guard was an elite unit of the Roman army that served as the personal bodyguard and powerful political enforcer for Roman emperors.
  • E. Palatine Guard
    The Palatine Guard was a former military unit of the Papal States that served as part of the Pope’s personal armed forces until its disbandment in the 20th century.
  • 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_69ca847424f081908180305555139f7a completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd8051303881909566126a2688e41c completed April 1, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d12d1326b8819084c6d9490b7a96dc completed April 4, 2026, 3:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d12df73e3c819095f69e2b61989bb1 completed April 4, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d12e6ed8988190bd1f4b6881db5e63 completed April 4, 2026, 3:29 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:55 p.m.