Triple

T11210597
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Origenist controversy E265293 entity
Predicate notableFigure P4290 FINISHED
Object Theophilus of Alexandria
Theophilus of Alexandria was a powerful late 4th- and early 5th-century Patriarch of Alexandria known for his influential role in church politics and theology, including his opposition to Origenist teachings and his conflict with John Chrysostom.
E922612 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: Theophilus of Alexandria | Statement: [Origenist controversy, notableFigure, Theophilus of Alexandria]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theophilus of Alexandria
Context triple: [Origenist controversy, notableFigure, Theophilus of Alexandria]
  • A. Theophilus of Antioch
    Theophilus of Antioch was a 2nd-century Christian apologist and bishop known for his work "To Autolycus," one of the earliest extant attempts to systematically defend Christianity using Greek philosophical concepts.
  • B. Theophilus
    Theophilus is the otherwise unknown individual addressed in the prefaces of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, likely a patron or symbolic “lover of God” to whom these New Testament works are dedicated.
  • C. Theophilus
    Theophilus was a prominent 6th-century Byzantine jurist and legal scholar who helped draft and interpret Emperor Justinian I’s codification of Roman law.
  • D. Theophilus
    Theophilus is the given name of Sir Theophilus Shepstone, a prominent 19th-century British South African statesman and colonial administrator.
  • E. Theophilus
    Theophilus was the first name of Bull Connor, the notorious Birmingham, Alabama public safety commissioner known for his brutal enforcement of racial segregation during the Civil Rights Movement.
  • 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: Theophilus of Alexandria
Triple: [Origenist controversy, notableFigure, Theophilus of Alexandria]
Generated description
Theophilus of Alexandria was a powerful late 4th- and early 5th-century Patriarch of Alexandria known for his influential role in church politics and theology, including his opposition to Origenist teachings and his conflict with John Chrysostom.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theophilus of Alexandria
Target entity description: Theophilus of Alexandria was a powerful late 4th- and early 5th-century Patriarch of Alexandria known for his influential role in church politics and theology, including his opposition to Origenist teachings and his conflict with John Chrysostom.
  • A. Theophilus of Antioch
    Theophilus of Antioch was a 2nd-century Christian apologist and bishop known for his work "To Autolycus," one of the earliest extant attempts to systematically defend Christianity using Greek philosophical concepts.
  • B. Theophilus
    Theophilus is the otherwise unknown individual addressed in the prefaces of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, likely a patron or symbolic “lover of God” to whom these New Testament works are dedicated.
  • C. Theophilus
    Theophilus is the given name of Sir Theophilus Shepstone, a prominent 19th-century British South African statesman and colonial administrator.
  • D. Theophilus
    Theophilus was a prominent 6th-century Byzantine jurist and legal scholar who helped draft and interpret Emperor Justinian I’s codification of Roman law.
  • E. Theophilus
    Theophilus was the first name of Bull Connor, the notorious Birmingham, Alabama public safety commissioner known for his brutal enforcement of racial segregation during the Civil Rights Movement.
  • 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_69d6aac59460819089b9848b27f57848 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e8d6f5d4819086dcb776a0d469e8 completed April 9, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e58ac418f08190b2936e8dbf9fb27d completed April 20, 2026, 2:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e59323c5948190bc2c9512f7b0a54f completed April 20, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e599c53704819097c0fdbbfbbb1e87 completed April 20, 2026, 3:13 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:30 p.m.