Triple

T17699083
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Cannae (1018) E441247 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object ancient city of Cannae
The ancient city of Cannae was a settlement in Apulia, southern Italy, best known as the site of major medieval and classical battles that made its name synonymous with decisive military defeat.
E1282676 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: ancient city of Cannae | Statement: [Battle of Cannae (1018), namedAfter, ancient city of Cannae]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: ancient city of Cannae
Context triple: [Battle of Cannae (1018), namedAfter, ancient city of Cannae]
  • A. ancient city of Himera
    The ancient city of Himera was a Greek colony on the northern coast of Sicily, notable as the site of major battles between Greek and Carthaginian forces and for its important temples and archaeological remains.
  • B. Italica
    Italica was an ancient Roman city in Hispania (near modern Seville, Spain), notable as the birthplace of emperors Trajan and Hadrian.
  • C. Roman Tarentum
    Roman Tarentum was the Roman-era phase of the ancient city of Tarentum (modern Taranto in southern Italy), a significant urban and commercial center in Magna Graecia later integrated into the Roman Republic.
  • D. Picenum city
    Picenum city refers to an ancient urban center located in the historical Picenum region of central Italy, inhabited by the Picentes people before and during Roman rule.
  • E. Acerrae
    Acerrae was an ancient Roman town in Campania, Italy, known from classical sources and archaeology as a minor settlement in the hinterland of Naples.
  • 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: ancient city of Cannae
Triple: [Battle of Cannae (1018), namedAfter, ancient city of Cannae]
Generated description
The ancient city of Cannae was a settlement in Apulia, southern Italy, best known as the site of major medieval and classical battles that made its name synonymous with decisive military defeat.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: ancient city of Cannae
Target entity description: The ancient city of Cannae was a settlement in Apulia, southern Italy, best known as the site of major medieval and classical battles that made its name synonymous with decisive military defeat.
  • A. ancient city of Himera
    The ancient city of Himera was a Greek colony on the northern coast of Sicily, notable as the site of major battles between Greek and Carthaginian forces and for its important temples and archaeological remains.
  • B. Italica
    Italica was an ancient Roman city in Hispania (near modern Seville, Spain), notable as the birthplace of emperors Trajan and Hadrian.
  • C. Roman Tarentum
    Roman Tarentum was the Roman-era phase of the ancient city of Tarentum (modern Taranto in southern Italy), a significant urban and commercial center in Magna Graecia later integrated into the Roman Republic.
  • D. Picenum city
    Picenum city refers to an ancient urban center located in the historical Picenum region of central Italy, inhabited by the Picentes people before and during Roman rule.
  • E. Acerrae
    Acerrae was an ancient Roman town in Campania, Italy, known from classical sources and archaeology as a minor settlement in the hinterland of Naples.
  • 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_69d8b9ea20b48190ace88bb46b01e6a9 completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e47158be9c8190bbf4e5162ff74ad2 completed April 19, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0223365be08190992b1e80553aebcc completed May 11, 2026, 6:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0224af2c7c819095b771014f36d0e4 completed May 11, 2026, 6:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a02259ef96881909660d18a4a149f8f completed May 11, 2026, 6:53 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:04 a.m.