Triple
T21783952
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Hellenistic mathematics |
E537786
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableMathematician |
P55473
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FINISHED |
| Object | Menelaus of Alexandria |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Menelaus of Alexandria | Statement: [Hellenistic mathematics, notableMathematician, Menelaus of Alexandria]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Menelaus of Alexandria Context triple: [Hellenistic mathematics, notableMathematician, Menelaus of Alexandria]
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A.
Menelaus of Alexandria
chosen
Menelaus of Alexandria was an influential Hellenistic mathematician and astronomer best known for his work on spherical geometry, particularly the formulation of Menelaus' theorem.
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B.
Menelaus of Cyprus
Menelaus of Cyprus was a Ptolemaic general and brother of Ptolemy I who played a key role in the early Hellenistic power struggles over Cyprus.
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C.
Appian of Alexandria
Appian of Alexandria was a 2nd-century AD Greek historian and Roman official best known for his multi-volume work "Roman History," which chronicles Rome’s rise and its civil wars.
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D.
Theon of Alexandria
Theon of Alexandria was a 4th-century Greek mathematician and astronomer best known as the last recorded scholar of the Library of Alexandria and for his influential commentaries on Ptolemy’s Almagest and Euclid’s Elements.
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E.
Hypsicles
Hypsicles was an ancient Hellenistic Greek astronomer and mathematician known for his work on the division of the zodiac and for contributions sometimes associated with the Book XIV of Euclid’s Elements.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e0c47198f881908cb0d237266c10e9 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f046303d54819096b3fab4ab5678e6 |
completed | April 28, 2026, 5:31 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:52 p.m.