Triple

T1900360
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Caesar’s civil war E37676 entity
Predicate hasKeyBattle P1703 FINISHED
Object Battle of Thapsus
The Battle of Thapsus was a decisive 46 BC engagement in North Africa in which Julius Caesar crushed the remaining Optimates forces, paving the way for his uncontested dominance over the Roman Republic.
E217462 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: Battle of Thapsus | Statement: [Caesar’s civil war, hasKeyBattle, Battle of Thapsus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Thapsus
Context triple: [Caesar’s civil war, hasKeyBattle, Battle of Thapsus]
  • A. Battle of the Metaurus
    The Battle of the Metaurus was a decisive engagement of the Second Punic War in 207 BC, where Roman forces defeated and killed Hasdrubal Barca, crippling Carthage’s campaign in Italy.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Battle of Beneventum
    The Battle of Beneventum was a decisive clash in 275 BC between Roman forces and the army of Pyrrhus of Epirus that effectively ended major Greek resistance in southern Italy and paved the way for Roman dominance over Magna Graecia.
  • D. Battle of Mylae
    The Battle of Mylae was a pivotal 260 BC naval victory of the Roman Republic over Carthage during the First Punic War, marking Rome’s emergence as a major Mediterranean sea power.
  • E. Battle of Naulochus
    The Battle of Naulochus was a decisive 36 BC naval clash off the coast of Sicily in which Octavian’s admiral Agrippa destroyed Sextus Pompey’s fleet, securing control of the western Mediterranean during the Roman civil wars.
  • 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: Battle of Thapsus
Triple: [Caesar’s civil war, hasKeyBattle, Battle of Thapsus]
Generated description
The Battle of Thapsus was a decisive 46 BC engagement in North Africa in which Julius Caesar crushed the remaining Optimates forces, paving the way for his uncontested dominance over the Roman Republic.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Thapsus
Target entity description: The Battle of Thapsus was a decisive 46 BC engagement in North Africa in which Julius Caesar crushed the remaining Optimates forces, paving the way for his uncontested dominance over the Roman Republic.
  • A. Battle of the Metaurus
    The Battle of the Metaurus was a decisive engagement of the Second Punic War in 207 BC, where Roman forces defeated and killed Hasdrubal Barca, crippling Carthage’s campaign in Italy.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Battle of Beneventum
    The Battle of Beneventum was a decisive clash in 275 BC between Roman forces and the army of Pyrrhus of Epirus that effectively ended major Greek resistance in southern Italy and paved the way for Roman dominance over Magna Graecia.
  • D. Battle of Mylae
    The Battle of Mylae was a pivotal 260 BC naval victory of the Roman Republic over Carthage during the First Punic War, marking Rome’s emergence as a major Mediterranean sea power.
  • E. Battle of Naulochus
    The Battle of Naulochus was a decisive 36 BC naval clash off the coast of Sicily in which Octavian’s admiral Agrippa destroyed Sextus Pompey’s fleet, securing control of the western Mediterranean during the Roman civil wars.
  • 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_69a8861be7148190a680937ec451a304 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb18c46c88190b10c05bf5c6a2d9c completed March 7, 2026, 5:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adf3d0d01c8190ae0c8029fead4008 completed March 8, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adf62508588190a6769ae1a1bf16ea completed March 8, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adf67c0eb08190acca7b82f120faa8 completed March 8, 2026, 10:21 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:35 p.m.