Triple

T21807255
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Roman invasion of Africa (256–255 BCE) E538380 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Xanthippus of Sparta
Xanthippus of Sparta was a Spartan mercenary general famed for reorganizing and leading the Carthaginian army to a decisive victory over the Romans during the First Punic War.
E1505838 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: Xanthippus of Sparta | Statement: [Roman invasion of Africa (256–255 BCE), commander, Xanthippus of Sparta]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Xanthippus of Sparta
Context triple: [Roman invasion of Africa (256–255 BCE), commander, Xanthippus of Sparta]
  • A. Aristodemus of Sparta
    Aristodemus of Sparta was a Spartan warrior known for surviving the Battle of Thermopylae and later seeking to redeem his honor through heroic death in battle.
  • B. Clearchus of Sparta
    Clearchus of Sparta was a 5th-century BC Spartan general best known for commanding Greek mercenaries in Cyrus the Younger's campaign against Artaxerxes II, as famously recounted in Xenophon's Anabasis.
  • C. Pleistarchus of Sparta
    Pleistarchus of Sparta was a 5th-century BC Spartan king of the Agiad dynasty, son of Leonidas I and Gorgo, whose early reign was overseen by the regent Pausanias.
  • D. Lysander of Sparta
    Lysander of Sparta was a prominent 5th-century BC Spartan naval commander and statesman who led Sparta to victory over Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
  • E. Demaratus of Sparta
    Demaratus of Sparta was a deposed Spartan king of the Eurypontid line who later fled to Persia and advised Xerxes during the Greco-Persian 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: Xanthippus of Sparta
Triple: [Roman invasion of Africa (256–255 BCE), commander, Xanthippus of Sparta]
Generated description
Xanthippus of Sparta was a Spartan mercenary general famed for reorganizing and leading the Carthaginian army to a decisive victory over the Romans during the First Punic War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Xanthippus of Sparta
Target entity description: Xanthippus of Sparta was a Spartan mercenary general famed for reorganizing and leading the Carthaginian army to a decisive victory over the Romans during the First Punic War.
  • A. Aristodemus of Sparta
    Aristodemus of Sparta was a Spartan warrior known for surviving the Battle of Thermopylae and later seeking to redeem his honor through heroic death in battle.
  • B. Clearchus of Sparta
    Clearchus of Sparta was a 5th-century BC Spartan general best known for commanding Greek mercenaries in Cyrus the Younger's campaign against Artaxerxes II, as famously recounted in Xenophon's Anabasis.
  • C. Pleistarchus of Sparta
    Pleistarchus of Sparta was a 5th-century BC Spartan king of the Agiad dynasty, son of Leonidas I and Gorgo, whose early reign was overseen by the regent Pausanias.
  • D. Lysander of Sparta
    Lysander of Sparta was a prominent 5th-century BC Spartan naval commander and statesman who led Sparta to victory over Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
  • E. Demaratus of Sparta
    Demaratus of Sparta was a deposed Spartan king of the Eurypontid line who later fled to Persia and advised Xerxes during the Greco-Persian 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_69e0c473f0f8819086c9d1b4a143bd67 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f07803b4888190af06bf7a90198f60 completed April 28, 2026, 9:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a5291e8d881909d3352f46d2c6883 completed May 17, 2026, 11:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a5344b4348190978a0ada3a8025eb completed May 17, 2026, 11:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a53d01aa08190896c7229b8ea50da completed May 17, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:53 p.m.