Triple

T22659833
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Siege of Amida E559631 entity
Predicate historicalSource P2296 FINISHED
Object Joshua the Stylite
Joshua the Stylite was a late 5th–early 6th century Syriac Christian chronicler whose detailed eyewitness account of events in northern Mesopotamia, including the siege of Amida, is a key source for the history of the period.
E1548085 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: Joshua the Stylite | Statement: [Siege of Amida, historicalSource, Joshua the Stylite]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joshua the Stylite
Context triple: [Siege of Amida, historicalSource, Joshua the Stylite]
  • A. Saint Nikita Stylites
    Saint Nikita Stylites was an Eastern Orthodox ascetic saint renowned for his extreme pillar-dwelling (stylite) lifestyle of prayer and penance.
  • B. Saint Simeon Stylites
    Saint Simeon Stylites was a 5th-century Christian ascetic famed for living atop a pillar in Syria for decades, becoming one of the most renowned early stylite saints.
  • C. St. John of the Ladder
    St. John of the Ladder was a 7th-century Christian monk and ascetic writer best known for his influential spiritual treatise "The Ladder of Divine Ascent," which outlines the stages of spiritual growth toward union with God.
  • D. Barlaam of Calabria
    Barlaam of Calabria was a 14th-century Italo-Greek monk, scholar, and humanist known for his opposition to Hesychasm and his theological disputes with Gregory Palamas.
  • E. Blaise of Sebaste
    Blaise of Sebaste is a 4th-century Christian bishop and martyr venerated as the patron saint of throat illnesses in both the Eastern and Western churches.
  • 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: Joshua the Stylite
Triple: [Siege of Amida, historicalSource, Joshua the Stylite]
Generated description
Joshua the Stylite was a late 5th–early 6th century Syriac Christian chronicler whose detailed eyewitness account of events in northern Mesopotamia, including the siege of Amida, is a key source for the history of the period.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joshua the Stylite
Target entity description: Joshua the Stylite was a late 5th–early 6th century Syriac Christian chronicler whose detailed eyewitness account of events in northern Mesopotamia, including the siege of Amida, is a key source for the history of the period.
  • A. Saint Nikita Stylites
    Saint Nikita Stylites was an Eastern Orthodox ascetic saint renowned for his extreme pillar-dwelling (stylite) lifestyle of prayer and penance.
  • B. Saint Simeon Stylites
    Saint Simeon Stylites was a 5th-century Christian ascetic famed for living atop a pillar in Syria for decades, becoming one of the most renowned early stylite saints.
  • C. St. John of the Ladder
    St. John of the Ladder was a 7th-century Christian monk and ascetic writer best known for his influential spiritual treatise "The Ladder of Divine Ascent," which outlines the stages of spiritual growth toward union with God.
  • D. Barlaam of Calabria
    Barlaam of Calabria was a 14th-century Italo-Greek monk, scholar, and humanist known for his opposition to Hesychasm and his theological disputes with Gregory Palamas.
  • E. Blaise of Sebaste
    Blaise of Sebaste is a 4th-century Christian bishop and martyr venerated as the patron saint of throat illnesses in both the Eastern and Western churches.
  • 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_69e2454a158c819093b8e35f5045efb6 completed April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1765dc9088190b022ac564a8b5c26 completed April 29, 2026, 3:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b586f21c48190af6e2d1e1bb3cbb9 completed May 18, 2026, 6:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b6f5f8bd08190b325b9dd91e199e1 completed May 18, 2026, 7:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b7044c94c81909a43b04f40af2a15 completed May 18, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:07 p.m.