Triple

T1700447
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Plotinus E36755 entity
Predicate birthPlace P1 FINISHED
Object Lycopolis
Lycopolis was an ancient Egyptian city, located in Upper Egypt, known as the birthplace of the Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus.
E198635 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: Lycopolis | Statement: [Plotinus, birthPlace, Lycopolis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lycopolis
Context triple: [Plotinus, birthPlace, Lycopolis]
  • A. Pelusium
    Pelusium was an ancient fortified port city in the eastern Nile Delta that served as a key military and commercial gateway between Egypt and the Near East.
  • B. Antinoopolis
    Antinoopolis was a prominent ancient city in Egypt, founded by the Roman emperor Hadrian and later serving as an important urban and administrative center in Byzantine Egypt.
  • C. Cyrene
    Cyrene is an ancient Greek and Roman city in eastern Libya renowned for its well-preserved ruins and historical significance as a major center of classical civilization.
  • D. Oxyrhynchus
    Oxyrhynchus was an important ancient Egyptian city, especially noted today for the vast cache of Greek and Latin papyri discovered there that has greatly enriched knowledge of classical literature and early Christianity.
  • E. Corisco
    Corisco is a small island in the Gulf of Guinea, off the coast of Equatorial Guinea, historically significant as a site of European—particularly Spanish—presence and regional trade.
  • 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: Lycopolis
Triple: [Plotinus, birthPlace, Lycopolis]
Generated description
Lycopolis was an ancient Egyptian city, located in Upper Egypt, known as the birthplace of the Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lycopolis
Target entity description: Lycopolis was an ancient Egyptian city, located in Upper Egypt, known as the birthplace of the Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus.
  • A. Pelusium
    Pelusium was an ancient fortified port city in the eastern Nile Delta that served as a key military and commercial gateway between Egypt and the Near East.
  • B. Antinoopolis
    Antinoopolis was a prominent ancient city in Egypt, founded by the Roman emperor Hadrian and later serving as an important urban and administrative center in Byzantine Egypt.
  • C. Cyrene
    Cyrene is an ancient Greek and Roman city in eastern Libya renowned for its well-preserved ruins and historical significance as a major center of classical civilization.
  • D. Oxyrhynchus
    Oxyrhynchus was an important ancient Egyptian city, especially noted today for the vast cache of Greek and Latin papyri discovered there that has greatly enriched knowledge of classical literature and early Christianity.
  • E. Corisco
    Corisco is a small island in the Gulf of Guinea, off the coast of Equatorial Guinea, historically significant as a site of European—particularly Spanish—presence and regional trade.
  • 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_69a886163dec8190859c514232a37a05 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa62d501188190b2e6ebf4d84471da completed March 6, 2026, 5:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ada97a55948190b4c58503d53132f0 completed March 8, 2026, 4:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adaab1fb6881908e0711ae1b69e2e5 completed March 8, 2026, 4:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adae9fdd3081908b1d9d7335cab1bd completed March 8, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:30 p.m.