Triple

T14670580
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Bedriacum E344500 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Marcus Valens
Marcus Valens was a Roman military commander active during the turbulent Year of the Four Emperors in 69 AD.
E1113055 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: Marcus Valens | Statement: [Battle of Bedriacum, commander, Marcus Valens]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marcus Valens
Context triple: [Battle of Bedriacum, commander, Marcus Valens]
  • A. Publius Vatinius
    Publius Vatinius was a Roman politician and military officer of the late Republic, best known as a loyal supporter of Julius Caesar and for his controversial tribunates and consulship.
  • B. Quintus Volusius Saturninus
    Quintus Volusius Saturninus was a Roman senator and member of the prominent Volusii family who held high offices during the early Roman Empire.
  • C. Sicinius Velutus
    Sicinius Velutus is a tribune of the people and a key political antagonist to the title character in William Shakespeare’s tragedy "Coriolanus."
  • D. Aulus
    Aulus is a common Roman praenomen (given name) frequently used among men in ancient Rome.
  • E. Gaius Fannius
    Gaius Fannius was a Roman statesman and writer associated with the intellectual and political circle around Scipio Aemilianus in the 2nd century BC.
  • 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: Marcus Valens
Triple: [Battle of Bedriacum, commander, Marcus Valens]
Generated description
Marcus Valens was a Roman military commander active during the turbulent Year of the Four Emperors in 69 AD.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marcus Valens
Target entity description: Marcus Valens was a Roman military commander active during the turbulent Year of the Four Emperors in 69 AD.
  • A. Publius Vatinius
    Publius Vatinius was a Roman politician and military officer of the late Republic, best known as a loyal supporter of Julius Caesar and for his controversial tribunates and consulship.
  • B. Quintus Volusius Saturninus
    Quintus Volusius Saturninus was a Roman senator and member of the prominent Volusii family who held high offices during the early Roman Empire.
  • C. Sicinius Velutus
    Sicinius Velutus is a tribune of the people and a key political antagonist to the title character in William Shakespeare’s tragedy "Coriolanus."
  • D. Aulus
    Aulus is a common Roman praenomen (given name) frequently used among men in ancient Rome.
  • E. Gaius Fannius
    Gaius Fannius was a Roman statesman and writer associated with the intellectual and political circle around Scipio Aemilianus in the 2nd century BC.
  • 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_69d822e283fc8190a0e4c235cf880052 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb54ef2908190b189ced65eec434a completed April 14, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fde177ced48190a448cbee1f4c75bf completed May 8, 2026, 1:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fde249f1288190ac2e53c26ae7968b completed May 8, 2026, 1:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fde2ec348c8190bf5d6f5993d3246c completed May 8, 2026, 1:19 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:27 a.m.