Triple

T20360491
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Menas E496761 entity
Predicate historicalBasis P1409 FINISHED
Object Menas (or Menodorus), a pirate in the service of Sextus Pompey
Menas, also known as Menodorus, was a notable 1st-century BC pirate and naval commander who served Sextus Pompey during the Roman civil wars, playing a key role in maritime operations against the Second Triumvirate.
E1427076 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: Menas (or Menodorus), a pirate in the service of Sextus Pompey | Statement: [Menas, historicalBasis, Menas (or Menodorus), a pirate in the service of Sextus Pompey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Menas (or Menodorus), a pirate in the service of Sextus Pompey
Context triple: [Menas, historicalBasis, Menas (or Menodorus), a pirate in the service of Sextus Pompey]
  • A. Cilician pirates
    The Cilician pirates were a powerful confederation of seafaring raiders in the eastern Mediterranean during the late Roman Republic, notorious for large-scale piracy, kidnapping, and disruption of trade until their suppression by Pompey in the 1st century BCE.
  • B. Pompey’s war against the pirates
    Pompey’s war against the pirates was a swift and decisive Roman naval campaign in 67 BC in which Pompey the Great cleared the Mediterranean of piracy, greatly enhancing his military prestige and Rome’s control over maritime trade.
  • C. Sextus Pompeius
    Sextus Pompeius was a Roman military leader and the youngest son of Pompey the Great, known for commanding a powerful naval force against the Second Triumvirate during the late Roman Republic.
  • D. Sextus
    Sextus is the praenomen (first name) of the Roman elegiac poet Propertius, active during the Augustan age.
  • E. Miek (as gladiator)
    Miek (as gladiator) is an insectoid warrior from Sakaar in the Marvel Cinematic Universe who fights in the Grandmaster’s Contest of Champions alongside other arena combatants like Thor and Korg.
  • 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: Menas (or Menodorus), a pirate in the service of Sextus Pompey
Triple: [Menas, historicalBasis, Menas (or Menodorus), a pirate in the service of Sextus Pompey]
Generated description
Menas, also known as Menodorus, was a notable 1st-century BC pirate and naval commander who served Sextus Pompey during the Roman civil wars, playing a key role in maritime operations against the Second Triumvirate.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Menas (or Menodorus), a pirate in the service of Sextus Pompey
Target entity description: Menas, also known as Menodorus, was a notable 1st-century BC pirate and naval commander who served Sextus Pompey during the Roman civil wars, playing a key role in maritime operations against the Second Triumvirate.
  • A. Cilician pirates
    The Cilician pirates were a powerful confederation of seafaring raiders in the eastern Mediterranean during the late Roman Republic, notorious for large-scale piracy, kidnapping, and disruption of trade until their suppression by Pompey in the 1st century BCE.
  • B. Pompey’s war against the pirates
    Pompey’s war against the pirates was a swift and decisive Roman naval campaign in 67 BC in which Pompey the Great cleared the Mediterranean of piracy, greatly enhancing his military prestige and Rome’s control over maritime trade.
  • C. Sextus Pompeius
    Sextus Pompeius was a Roman military leader and the youngest son of Pompey the Great, known for commanding a powerful naval force against the Second Triumvirate during the late Roman Republic.
  • D. Sextus
    Sextus is the praenomen (first name) of the Roman elegiac poet Propertius, active during the Augustan age.
  • E. Miek (as gladiator)
    Miek (as gladiator) is an insectoid warrior from Sakaar in the Marvel Cinematic Universe who fights in the Grandmaster’s Contest of Champions alongside other arena combatants like Thor and Korg.
  • 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_69e0b4a3f7f48190b37f354574028ca6 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e678584294819093788ccf2fb8e588 completed April 20, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08708592f481908de58a0d359af01f completed May 16, 2026, 1:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0871146b248190ac91cf010a984e1f completed May 16, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0871a818688190ad69bcf84e33d014 completed May 16, 2026, 1:31 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:25 a.m.