Triple

T1703447
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Optimates E36816 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object Quintus Lutatius Catulus
Quintus Lutatius Catulus was a prominent late Roman Republic statesman and general, known for his conservative politics, rivalry with Gaius Marius, and role in the Social and civil wars.
E219542 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: Quintus Lutatius Catulus | Statement: [Optimates, notableMember, Quintus Lutatius Catulus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Quintus Lutatius Catulus
Context triple: [Optimates, notableMember, Quintus Lutatius Catulus]
  • A. Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus
    Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus was a prominent Roman general and statesman of the late Republic, noted for his aristocratic leadership in the Jugurthine War and his opposition to the rising power of Gaius Marius.
  • B. Gaius Marius
    Gaius Marius was a powerful Roman general and statesman whose military reforms and unprecedented seven consulships profoundly reshaped the late Roman Republic.
  • C. Marcus Aemilius Scaurus
    Marcus Aemilius Scaurus was a prominent Roman statesman of the late Republic, best known for his influential role in the Senate and his tenure as princeps senatus.
  • D. Metellus Scipio
    Metellus Scipio was a Roman senator and general of the late Republic, known as a leading Optimate commander who opposed Julius Caesar during the civil war and was defeated at the Battle of Thapsus.
  • E. Lucius Cornelius Sulla
    Lucius Cornelius Sulla was a Roman general and statesman who became dictator, known for his civil war victory, constitutional reforms, and infamous proscriptions.
  • 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: Quintus Lutatius Catulus
Triple: [Optimates, notableMember, Quintus Lutatius Catulus]
Generated description
Quintus Lutatius Catulus was a prominent late Roman Republic statesman and general, known for his conservative politics, rivalry with Gaius Marius, and role in the Social and civil wars.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Quintus Lutatius Catulus
Target entity description: Quintus Lutatius Catulus was a prominent late Roman Republic statesman and general, known for his conservative politics, rivalry with Gaius Marius, and role in the Social and civil wars.
  • A. Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus
    Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus was a prominent Roman general and statesman of the late Republic, noted for his aristocratic leadership in the Jugurthine War and his opposition to the rising power of Gaius Marius.
  • B. Gaius Marius
    Gaius Marius was a powerful Roman general and statesman whose military reforms and unprecedented seven consulships profoundly reshaped the late Roman Republic.
  • C. Marcus Aemilius Scaurus
    Marcus Aemilius Scaurus was a prominent Roman statesman of the late Republic, best known for his influential role in the Senate and his tenure as princeps senatus.
  • D. Metellus Scipio
    Metellus Scipio was a Roman senator and general of the late Republic, known as a leading Optimate commander who opposed Julius Caesar during the civil war and was defeated at the Battle of Thapsus.
  • E. Lucius Cornelius Sulla
    Lucius Cornelius Sulla was a Roman general and statesman who became dictator, known for his civil war victory, constitutional reforms, and infamous proscriptions.
  • 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_69a88617439c819094ffb5d16a0f6307 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa62f25bac8190977d6f3bd79363cb completed March 6, 2026, 5:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adfb96d12481908f8d7d5c9f1f103f completed March 8, 2026, 10:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adfc3d37e4819082673b84eb5a19f2 completed March 8, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adfd7ef5588190ab85f3981466d1e0 completed March 8, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:30 p.m.