Triple

T1045158
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Niccolò Machiavelli E22560 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Discourses on Livy
Discourses on Livy is a political treatise by Niccolò Machiavelli that analyzes the history of the Roman Republic to explore the principles of republican government and civic virtue.
E120669 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: Discourses on Livy | Statement: [Niccolò Machiavelli, notableWork, Discourses on Livy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Discourses on Livy
Context triple: [Niccolò Machiavelli, notableWork, Discourses on Livy]
  • A. Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
    Livy’s *Ab Urbe Condita* is a monumental multi-volume history of Rome written in Latin, tracing the city’s legendary founding through the early empire and shaping later European views of Roman history and virtue.
  • B. Polybius’ Histories
    Polybius’ *Histories* is a multi-volume work of ancient Greek historiography that analyzes how Rome rose to Mediterranean dominance in the Hellenistic period through a critical, eyewitness-based narrative.
  • C. Cyropaedia
    Cyropaedia is an ancient Greek prose work by Xenophon that presents a partly fictionalized account of the education and rule of Cyrus the Great as a model of ideal leadership and governance.
  • D. Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline
    Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline is a historical and political treatise by Montesquieu that analyzes the factors behind the rise and fall of the Roman Empire to draw broader lessons about power, virtue, and corruption in states.
  • E. Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
    Rerum vulgarium fragmenta is a seminal 14th-century Italian lyric poetry collection by Petrarch that helped shape the development of Renaissance humanism and the European sonnet tradition.
  • 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: Discourses on Livy
Triple: [Niccolò Machiavelli, notableWork, Discourses on Livy]
Generated description
Discourses on Livy is a political treatise by Niccolò Machiavelli that analyzes the history of the Roman Republic to explore the principles of republican government and civic virtue.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Discourses on Livy
Target entity description: Discourses on Livy is a political treatise by Niccolò Machiavelli that analyzes the history of the Roman Republic to explore the principles of republican government and civic virtue.
  • A. Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
    Livy’s *Ab Urbe Condita* is a monumental multi-volume history of Rome written in Latin, tracing the city’s legendary founding through the early empire and shaping later European views of Roman history and virtue.
  • B. Polybius’ Histories
    Polybius’ *Histories* is a multi-volume work of ancient Greek historiography that analyzes how Rome rose to Mediterranean dominance in the Hellenistic period through a critical, eyewitness-based narrative.
  • C. Cyropaedia
    Cyropaedia is an ancient Greek prose work by Xenophon that presents a partly fictionalized account of the education and rule of Cyrus the Great as a model of ideal leadership and governance.
  • D. Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline
    Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline is a historical and political treatise by Montesquieu that analyzes the factors behind the rise and fall of the Roman Empire to draw broader lessons about power, virtue, and corruption in states.
  • E. Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
    Rerum vulgarium fragmenta is a seminal 14th-century Italian lyric poetry collection by Petrarch that helped shape the development of Renaissance humanism and the European sonnet tradition.
  • 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_69a493d91478819094cc01fb65564bc1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b84937688190a5899af2104002df completed March 1, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac3bc97dec81909b6ad48e3f203923 completed March 7, 2026, 2:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac3c42c2c081909ccadbf944d3aa6c completed March 7, 2026, 2:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac3cbd43848190854add440753fdad completed March 7, 2026, 2:57 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.