Triple

T11990103
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herodian's History of the Roman Empire E285382 entity
Predicate author P4 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.
E959263 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]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.