Triple

T19979188
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cotton collection of manuscripts E493769 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Cotton Vespasian A VIII
Cotton Vespasian A VIII is a medieval manuscript volume from the Cotton collection, notable for its early English historical and religious texts preserved in the British Library.
 E1405114 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: Cotton Vespasian A VIII | Statement: [Cotton collection of manuscripts, hasPart, Cotton Vespasian A VIII]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cotton Vespasian A VIII
Context triple: [Cotton collection of manuscripts, hasPart, Cotton Vespasian A VIII]
  • A. Cotton Vitellius A XV
    Cotton Vitellius A XV is the medieval manuscript in the British Library that famously preserves the only surviving copy of the Old English epic poem Beowulf.
  • B. Vipsanius
    Vipsanius is a Roman nomen (family name) associated with members of the Vipsania gens in ancient Rome.
  • C. Aemilii Papii
    Aemilii Papii was a patrician family branch of the ancient Roman gens Aemilia, known for producing magistrates and senators in the Roman Republic.
  • D. Vita Caracallae
    Vita Caracallae is a biography of the Roman emperor Caracalla found within the late antique Latin collection of imperial lives known as the Historia Augusta.
  • E. Poppaeus
    Poppaeus is the family name of a member of the ancient Roman gens Poppaea, a lesser-known plebeian lineage of the Roman Republic and Empire.
  • 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: Cotton Vespasian A VIII
Triple: [Cotton collection of manuscripts, hasPart, Cotton Vespasian A VIII]
Generated description
Cotton Vespasian A VIII is a medieval manuscript volume from the Cotton collection, notable for its early English historical and religious texts preserved in the British Library.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cotton Vespasian A VIII
Target entity description: Cotton Vespasian A VIII is a medieval manuscript volume from the Cotton collection, notable for its early English historical and religious texts preserved in the British Library.
  • A. Cotton Vitellius A XV
    Cotton Vitellius A XV is the medieval manuscript in the British Library that famously preserves the only surviving copy of the Old English epic poem Beowulf.
  • B. Vipsanius
    Vipsanius is a Roman nomen (family name) associated with members of the Vipsania gens in ancient Rome.
  • C. Aemilii Papii
    Aemilii Papii was a patrician family branch of the ancient Roman gens Aemilia, known for producing magistrates and senators in the Roman Republic.
  • D. Vita Caracallae
    Vita Caracallae is a biography of the Roman emperor Caracalla found within the late antique Latin collection of imperial lives known as the Historia Augusta.
  • E. Poppaeus
    Poppaeus is the family name of a member of the ancient Roman gens Poppaea, a lesser-known plebeian lineage of the Roman Republic and Empire.
  • 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_69da626a67648190af9653832a3aeced completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e65d11d2108190bd1d91fdc834888b completed April 20, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0804f9a6388190941196f7ae56a937 completed May 16, 2026, 5:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0805b60dbc81908c82f9410f290e19 completed May 16, 2026, 5:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a080679b3e08190aba3254891e739ff completed May 16, 2026, 5:54 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 3:27 p.m.