Triple
T11990103
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Herodian's History of the Roman Empire |
E285382
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entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Herodian
Herodian was a 3rd-century Greek-speaking Roman civil servant and historian best known for his detailed account of the Roman Empire from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the accession of Gordian III.
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E959263
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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: Herodian | Statement: [Herodian's History of the Roman Empire, author, Herodian]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herodian Context triple: [Herodian's History of the Roman Empire, author, Herodian]
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A.
Herodian
Herodian refers to a member of the Herodian dynasty, the ruling family of client kings in Judea and surrounding regions during the late Second Temple period under Roman authority.
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B.
Aelius Lampridius
Aelius Lampridius is the purported author-name of several imperial biographies in the late Roman collection known as the Historia Augusta, likely a fictitious or pseudonymous figure rather than a historically verifiable writer.
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C.
Libius Severus
Libius Severus was a little-known Western Roman emperor who reigned from 461 to 465 AD as a puppet of the powerful general Ricimer during the empire’s final decline.
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D.
Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus
Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus was a prominent 2nd-century Roman senator and proconsul of Asia, honored posthumously with the monumental Library of Celsus in Ephesus.
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E.
Gaius Avidius Heliodorus
Gaius Avidius Heliodorus was a prominent 2nd-century Roman official and administrator of Egyptian origin who served as a high-ranking imperial bureaucrat under the Antonine emperors.
- 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: Herodian Triple: [Herodian's History of the Roman Empire, author, Herodian]
Generated description
Herodian was a 3rd-century Greek-speaking Roman civil servant and historian best known for his detailed account of the Roman Empire from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the accession of Gordian III.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herodian Target entity description: Herodian was a 3rd-century Greek-speaking Roman civil servant and historian best known for his detailed account of the Roman Empire from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the accession of Gordian III.
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A.
Herodian
Herodian refers to a member of the Herodian dynasty, the ruling family of client kings in Judea and surrounding regions during the late Second Temple period under Roman authority.
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B.
Aelius Lampridius
Aelius Lampridius is the purported author-name of several imperial biographies in the late Roman collection known as the Historia Augusta, likely a fictitious or pseudonymous figure rather than a historically verifiable writer.
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C.
Libius Severus
Libius Severus was a little-known Western Roman emperor who reigned from 461 to 465 AD as a puppet of the powerful general Ricimer during the empire’s final decline.
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D.
Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus
Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus was a prominent 2nd-century Roman senator and proconsul of Asia, honored posthumously with the monumental Library of Celsus in Ephesus.
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E.
Gaius Avidius Heliodorus
Gaius Avidius Heliodorus was a prominent 2nd-century Roman official and administrator of Egyptian origin who served as a high-ranking imperial bureaucrat under the Antonine emperors.
- 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_69d6ab44a77c8190a652f4b27164e4ef |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d903afe4388190a2cf2328e85adf9b |
completed | April 10, 2026, 2:05 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f48abcf2588190a44e6e31e045b356 |
completed | May 1, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69f48df7790c8190a8e79466f032e86d |
completed | May 1, 2026, 11:26 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69f490dfe4e4819092d7494ba9b807db |
completed | May 1, 2026, 11:39 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.