Triple

T1000815
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tobit E21597 entity
Predicate setIn P1393 FINISHED
Object Ecbatana
Ecbatana is an ancient city, traditionally identified with the capital of the Median Empire in northwestern Iran, known from classical sources and biblical texts.
 E122204 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: Ecbatana | Statement: [Tobit, setIn, Ecbatana]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ecbatana
Context triple: [Tobit, setIn, Ecbatana]
  • A. Susa
    Susa was an ancient city in southwestern Iran that served as a major political and administrative center for several empires, including the Achaemenid Persians.
  • B. Nineveh
    Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, famed as a major political and cultural center and once the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
  • C. Sippar
    Sippar was an important ancient Mesopotamian city, renowned as a religious and administrative center particularly associated with the sun god Shamash.
  • D. Nippur
    Nippur was an ancient Sumerian city in Mesopotamia that served as a major religious center dedicated to the god Enlil.
  • E. Pasargadae
    Pasargadae is the ancient capital of the Achaemenid Empire in present-day Iran, renowned for its archaeological remains and the tomb of Cyrus the Great.
  • 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: Ecbatana
Triple: [Tobit, setIn, Ecbatana]
Generated description
Ecbatana is an ancient city, traditionally identified with the capital of the Median Empire in northwestern Iran, known from classical sources and biblical texts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ecbatana
Target entity description: Ecbatana is an ancient city, traditionally identified with the capital of the Median Empire in northwestern Iran, known from classical sources and biblical texts.
  • A. Susa
    Susa was an ancient city in southwestern Iran that served as a major political and administrative center for several empires, including the Achaemenid Persians.
  • B. Nineveh
    Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, famed as a major political and cultural center and once the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
  • C. Sippar
    Sippar was an important ancient Mesopotamian city, renowned as a religious and administrative center particularly associated with the sun god Shamash.
  • D. Nippur
    Nippur was an ancient Sumerian city in Mesopotamia that served as a major religious center dedicated to the god Enlil.
  • E. Pasargadae
    Pasargadae is the ancient capital of the Achaemenid Empire in present-day Iran, renowned for its archaeological remains and the tomb of Cyrus the Great.
  • 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_69a493c476b48190b41fc5e793171cc6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b4fb18b88190ae2d620aaaff4f90 completed March 1, 2026, 9:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac3ba52ebc819084e3d003a3ec8417 completed March 7, 2026, 2:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac3f131bc081909338b8a1b2e4b4e0 completed March 7, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac3f88e56081909d07f088a4e9954a completed March 7, 2026, 3:08 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.