Triple

T207268
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pontius Pilate E4635 entity
Predicate source P409 FINISHED
Object Tacitus
Tacitus was a prominent Roman historian and senator best known for his detailed and critical accounts of the early Roman Empire, including references to figures such as Pontius Pilate and early Christians.
E26568 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: Tacitus | Statement: [Pontius Pilate, source, Tacitus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tacitus
Context triple: [Pontius Pilate, source, Tacitus]
  • A. Lactantius
    Lactantius was an early 4th-century Christian author and apologist, best known for his work "Divine Institutes" and for serving as an advisor and tutor in the court of Emperor Constantine.
  • B. Horace
    Horace is a masculine given name of Latin origin, historically associated with figures such as the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus and later borne by notable individuals like the English writer and politician Horace Walpole.
  • C. Eusebius of Caesarea
    Eusebius of Caesarea was a 4th-century Christian historian and bishop, best known for his seminal work "Ecclesiastical History," which chronicles the early Church from the time of Christ to his own era.
  • D. Tertullian
    Tertullian was an early Christian theologian and writer from Carthage, known for his influential Latin apologetic and polemical works that helped shape Western Christian thought.
  • E. Marcus Aurelius
    Marcus Aurelius was a 2nd-century Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher best known for his work "Meditations" and for exemplifying the ideal of the philosopher-king.
  • 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: Tacitus
Triple: [Pontius Pilate, source, Tacitus]
Generated description
Tacitus was a prominent Roman historian and senator best known for his detailed and critical accounts of the early Roman Empire, including references to figures such as Pontius Pilate and early Christians.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tacitus
Target entity description: Tacitus was a prominent Roman historian and senator best known for his detailed and critical accounts of the early Roman Empire, including references to figures such as Pontius Pilate and early Christians.
  • A. Lactantius
    Lactantius was an early 4th-century Christian author and apologist, best known for his work "Divine Institutes" and for serving as an advisor and tutor in the court of Emperor Constantine.
  • B. Horace
    Horace is a masculine given name of Latin origin, historically associated with figures such as the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus and later borne by notable individuals like the English writer and politician Horace Walpole.
  • C. Eusebius of Caesarea
    Eusebius of Caesarea was a 4th-century Christian historian and bishop, best known for his seminal work "Ecclesiastical History," which chronicles the early Church from the time of Christ to his own era.
  • D. Tertullian
    Tertullian was an early Christian theologian and writer from Carthage, known for his influential Latin apologetic and polemical works that helped shape Western Christian thought.
  • E. Marcus Aurelius
    Marcus Aurelius was a 2nd-century Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher best known for his work "Meditations" and for exemplifying the ideal of the philosopher-king.
  • 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_69a25737567c81908f9c505300239181 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25c0601bc81909a268ca9e751d5bb completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a32f29799c8190a445a231006bf436 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 6:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a32f866fd4819097e93255723602cc completed Feb. 28, 2026, 6:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a32fe4faf88190a3637cbfc768522e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 6:11 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:51 a.m.