Triple

T14159749
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gaius Caecilius E350904 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius
Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius are Pliny the Younger's famous eyewitness accounts of the AD 79 eruption that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, written in correspondence with the historian Tacitus.
E1084155 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: Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius | Statement: [Gaius Caecilius, notableWork, Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius
Context triple: [Gaius Caecilius, notableWork, Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius]
  • A. The Last Days of Pompeii
    The Last Days of Pompeii is a 1935 American historical drama film depicting the lives of several characters in the Roman city of Pompeii leading up to its destruction by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
  • B. Pliny the Elder’s Natural History
    Pliny the Elder’s *Natural History* is a vast first-century Roman encyclopedia that compiles contemporary knowledge on subjects ranging from geography and zoology to art and mineralogy.
  • C. Letter to Pompeius Geminus
    Letter to Pompeius Geminus is an epistolary treatise by Dionysius of Halicarnassus in which he defends and explains his approach to the study and imitation of classical Attic Greek prose.
  • D. Historia Calamitatum
    Historia Calamitatum is Peter Abelard’s autobiographical letter recounting his intellectual career, love affair with Héloïse, and subsequent misfortunes, and is a key text of 12th-century medieval literature.
  • E. Epistulae ex Ponto
    Epistulae ex Ponto is a collection of elegiac letters by the Roman poet Ovid, written during his exile on the Black Sea and addressed to friends and family in Rome.
  • 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: Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius
Triple: [Gaius Caecilius, notableWork, Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius]
Generated description
Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius are Pliny the Younger's famous eyewitness accounts of the AD 79 eruption that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, written in correspondence with the historian Tacitus.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius
Target entity description: Letters to Tacitus on the eruption of Vesuvius are Pliny the Younger's famous eyewitness accounts of the AD 79 eruption that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, written in correspondence with the historian Tacitus.
  • A. The Last Days of Pompeii
    The Last Days of Pompeii is a 1935 American historical drama film depicting the lives of several characters in the Roman city of Pompeii leading up to its destruction by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
  • B. Pliny the Elder’s Natural History
    Pliny the Elder’s *Natural History* is a vast first-century Roman encyclopedia that compiles contemporary knowledge on subjects ranging from geography and zoology to art and mineralogy.
  • C. Letter to Pompeius Geminus
    Letter to Pompeius Geminus is an epistolary treatise by Dionysius of Halicarnassus in which he defends and explains his approach to the study and imitation of classical Attic Greek prose.
  • D. Historia Calamitatum
    Historia Calamitatum is Peter Abelard’s autobiographical letter recounting his intellectual career, love affair with Héloïse, and subsequent misfortunes, and is a key text of 12th-century medieval literature.
  • E. Epistulae ex Ponto
    Epistulae ex Ponto is a collection of elegiac letters by the Roman poet Ovid, written during his exile on the Black Sea and addressed to friends and family in Rome.
  • 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_69d8278775fc8190b0802d22ca2f495d completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de61393f308190bb357e2bd1916f94 completed April 14, 2026, 3:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fcf7f166988190a96d01fb4bd1438e completed May 7, 2026, 8:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd05f31d9c81908b12befa499fae08 completed May 7, 2026, 9:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd068196fc8190b0c5620c754d2a5c completed May 7, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:58 a.m.