Triple
T21807271
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Roman invasion of Africa (256–255 BCE) |
E538380
|
entity |
| Predicate | militaryTheater |
P710
|
FINISHED |
| Object | North African theater of the First Punic War |
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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: North African theater of the First Punic War | Statement: [Roman invasion of Africa (256–255 BCE), militaryTheater, North African theater of the First Punic War]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: North African theater of the First Punic War Context triple: [Roman invasion of Africa (256–255 BCE), militaryTheater, North African theater of the First Punic War]
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A.
First Punic War
The First Punic War was a major 3rd-century BCE conflict between Rome and Carthage, fought primarily over control of Sicily and dominance in the western Mediterranean.
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B.
Punic Sicily
Punic Sicily was the Carthaginian-controlled region of western Sicily that served as a major center of Phoenician-Punic culture and a strategic hub in the conflicts with Greek city-states and later Rome.
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C.
Carthaginian invasion of Sicily (480 BC)
The Carthaginian invasion of Sicily in 480 BC was a major military campaign by Carthage against the Greek city-states on the island, culminating in the decisive Battle of Himera.
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D.
Western Mediterranean theater
chosen
The Western Mediterranean theater was a major zone of conflict in antiquity, particularly during the Punic Wars, encompassing key land and naval operations between Rome and Carthage around the western Mediterranean Sea.
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E.
Mediterranean theater of the First Barbary War
The Mediterranean theater of the First Barbary War was the maritime and coastal region where the United States and its allies fought the Barbary states of North Africa in the early 19th century to suppress piracy and protect American shipping.
- 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_69e0c473f0f8819086c9d1b4a143bd67 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f07803b4888190af06bf7a90198f60 |
completed | April 28, 2026, 9:04 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:53 p.m.