Triple

T1744938
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Third Punic War E38315 entity
Predicate notableEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Roman siege of Carthage
The Roman siege of Carthage was the brutal, years-long assault (149–146 BC) in which Rome captured and destroyed the North African city of Carthage, ending the Third Punic War and Carthaginian power.
E197619 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: Roman siege of Carthage | Statement: [Third Punic War, notableEvent, Roman siege of Carthage]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roman siege of Carthage
Context triple: [Third Punic War, notableEvent, Roman siege of Carthage]
  • A. Siege of Tyre
    The Siege of Tyre was Alexander the Great’s famous 332 BC assault on the heavily fortified Phoenician island city, marked by the construction of a massive causeway and resulting in a decisive Macedonian victory that secured control of the eastern Mediterranean.
  • B. Siege of Syracuse
    The Siege of Syracuse was a major Roman military campaign during the Second Punic War, famous for the city’s prolonged resistance aided by Archimedes’ ingenious defensive war machines before its eventual capture in 212 BC.
  • C. Battle of Zama
    The Battle of Zama was the decisive 202 BCE clash in North Africa where Roman general Scipio Africanus defeated Carthaginian commander Hannibal, effectively ending Carthage’s power in the western Mediterranean.
  • D. Vandalic War in North Africa
    The Vandalic War in North Africa was a 6th-century Byzantine campaign under Emperor Justinian I that reconquered the Vandal Kingdom and restored imperial control over key western Mediterranean territories.
  • E. Siege of Segusio
    The Siege of Segusio was a military engagement in 312 AD during Constantine the Great’s campaign against Maxentius in northern Italy, forming part of the civil war that culminated in the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.
  • 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: Roman siege of Carthage
Triple: [Third Punic War, notableEvent, Roman siege of Carthage]
Generated description
The Roman siege of Carthage was the brutal, years-long assault (149–146 BC) in which Rome captured and destroyed the North African city of Carthage, ending the Third Punic War and Carthaginian power.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roman siege of Carthage
Target entity description: The Roman siege of Carthage was the brutal, years-long assault (149–146 BC) in which Rome captured and destroyed the North African city of Carthage, ending the Third Punic War and Carthaginian power.
  • A. Siege of Tyre
    The Siege of Tyre was Alexander the Great’s famous 332 BC assault on the heavily fortified Phoenician island city, marked by the construction of a massive causeway and resulting in a decisive Macedonian victory that secured control of the eastern Mediterranean.
  • B. Siege of Syracuse
    The Siege of Syracuse was a major Roman military campaign during the Second Punic War, famous for the city’s prolonged resistance aided by Archimedes’ ingenious defensive war machines before its eventual capture in 212 BC.
  • C. Battle of Zama
    The Battle of Zama was the decisive 202 BCE clash in North Africa where Roman general Scipio Africanus defeated Carthaginian commander Hannibal, effectively ending Carthage’s power in the western Mediterranean.
  • D. Vandalic War in North Africa
    The Vandalic War in North Africa was a 6th-century Byzantine campaign under Emperor Justinian I that reconquered the Vandal Kingdom and restored imperial control over key western Mediterranean territories.
  • E. Siege of Segusio
    The Siege of Segusio was a military engagement in 312 AD during Constantine the Great’s campaign against Maxentius in northern Italy, forming part of the civil war that culminated in the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.
  • 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_69a8862b01a48190ab47209063af82d9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa63e93f3481909f61d581f7a5bdfa completed March 6, 2026, 5:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ada0de0ff08190bb7758e3ba32de80 completed March 8, 2026, 4:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ada524a234819082f94430da4e802d completed March 8, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ada5bc32ac8190a921410bdfa465fa completed March 8, 2026, 4:37 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:31 p.m.