Triple

T16579347
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus E402797 entity
Predicate cognomen P6662 FINISHED
Object Messallinus
Messallinus is the cognomen of the Roman senator and consul Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus, a prominent political figure of the early Roman Empire.
 E1225773 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: Messallinus | Statement: [Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus, cognomen, Messallinus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Messallinus
Context triple: [Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus, cognomen, Messallinus]
  • A. Balbinus
    Balbinus was a Roman emperor who briefly co-ruled the empire in 238 AD during the turbulent Year of the Six Emperors.
  • B. Poppaeus
    Poppaeus is the family name of a member of the ancient Roman gens Poppaea, a lesser-known plebeian lineage of the Roman Republic and Empire.
  • C. Marcianus
    Marcianus was a late Roman imperial prince, known primarily as the son of Western Roman Emperor Anthemius.
  • D. Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus
    Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus was a Roman consul and general best known for his unsuccessful campaign against Spartacus during the Third Servile War.
  • E. Tettius Julianus
    Tettius Julianus was a Roman general best known for his leadership and victories in Emperor Domitian’s campaigns against the Dacians in the late 1st century AD.
  • 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: Messallinus
Triple: [Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus, cognomen, Messallinus]
Generated description
Messallinus is the cognomen of the Roman senator and consul Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus, a prominent political figure of the early Roman Empire.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Messallinus
Target entity description: Messallinus is the cognomen of the Roman senator and consul Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus, a prominent political figure of the early Roman Empire.
  • A. Balbinus
    Balbinus was a Roman emperor who briefly co-ruled the empire in 238 AD during the turbulent Year of the Six Emperors.
  • B. Poppaeus
    Poppaeus is the family name of a member of the ancient Roman gens Poppaea, a lesser-known plebeian lineage of the Roman Republic and Empire.
  • C. Marcianus
    Marcianus was a late Roman imperial prince, known primarily as the son of Western Roman Emperor Anthemius.
  • D. Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus
    Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus was a Roman consul and general best known for his unsuccessful campaign against Spartacus during the Third Servile War.
  • E. Tettius Julianus
    Tettius Julianus was a Roman general best known for his leadership and victories in Emperor Domitian’s campaigns against the Dacians in the late 1st century AD.
  • 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_69d88387363c8190a97a0c942130de97 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3595f9be88190b01ba628ecf1103d completed April 18, 2026, 10:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0084b077f481909796b5b60f501239 completed May 10, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a008558218c8190b0e72356ae52afd2 completed May 10, 2026, 1:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a008624706881909e9a265a37eeb3fc completed May 10, 2026, 1:20 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:16 a.m.