Triple

T2376760
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Roman–Parthian War of 161–166 E46214 entity
Predicate notableBattle P259 FINISHED
Object Sack of Seleucia (165)
The Sack of Seleucia (165) was a devastating Roman assault and looting of the major Mesopotamian city of Seleucia on the Tigris during Lucius Verus’s eastern campaign, contributing to the city’s decline and the wider destabilization of the Parthian Empire.
E261609 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: Sack of Seleucia (165) | Statement: [Roman–Parthian War of 161–166, notableBattle, Sack of Seleucia (165)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sack of Seleucia (165)
Context triple: [Roman–Parthian War of 161–166, notableBattle, Sack of Seleucia (165)]
  • A. Siege of Palmyra (272)
    The Siege of Palmyra (272) was a Roman military campaign under Emperor Aurelian that recaptured the city of Palmyra and effectively ended the power of Queen Zenobia’s Palmyrene Empire.
  • B. Siege of Samaria
    The Siege of Samaria was the decisive Assyrian military campaign in 722 BCE that led to the fall of the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel and the exile of much of its population.
  • C. Siege of Bethar
    The Siege of Bethar was the climactic Roman assault in 135 CE that crushed the Bar Kokhba Revolt and marked the effective end of large-scale Jewish resistance to Roman rule in Judea.
  • D. Roman–Palmyrene War
    The Roman–Palmyrene War was a 3rd-century conflict in which the Roman Empire fought to suppress the breakaway Palmyrene Empire led by Queen Zenobia and restore imperial control over the Eastern provinces.
  • E. Siege of Nicomedia
    The Siege of Nicomedia was an early 14th-century Ottoman campaign that captured the important Byzantine city of Nicomedia, marking a key step in the Ottoman expansion into northwestern Anatolia.
  • 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: Sack of Seleucia (165)
Triple: [Roman–Parthian War of 161–166, notableBattle, Sack of Seleucia (165)]
Generated description
The Sack of Seleucia (165) was a devastating Roman assault and looting of the major Mesopotamian city of Seleucia on the Tigris during Lucius Verus’s eastern campaign, contributing to the city’s decline and the wider destabilization of the Parthian Empire.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sack of Seleucia (165)
Target entity description: The Sack of Seleucia (165) was a devastating Roman assault and looting of the major Mesopotamian city of Seleucia on the Tigris during Lucius Verus’s eastern campaign, contributing to the city’s decline and the wider destabilization of the Parthian Empire.
  • A. Siege of Palmyra (272)
    The Siege of Palmyra (272) was a Roman military campaign under Emperor Aurelian that recaptured the city of Palmyra and effectively ended the power of Queen Zenobia’s Palmyrene Empire.
  • B. Siege of Samaria
    The Siege of Samaria was the decisive Assyrian military campaign in 722 BCE that led to the fall of the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel and the exile of much of its population.
  • C. Siege of Bethar
    The Siege of Bethar was the climactic Roman assault in 135 CE that crushed the Bar Kokhba Revolt and marked the effective end of large-scale Jewish resistance to Roman rule in Judea.
  • D. Roman–Palmyrene War
    The Roman–Palmyrene War was a 3rd-century conflict in which the Roman Empire fought to suppress the breakaway Palmyrene Empire led by Queen Zenobia and restore imperial control over the Eastern provinces.
  • E. Siege of Nicomedia
    The Siege of Nicomedia was an early 14th-century Ottoman campaign that captured the important Byzantine city of Nicomedia, marking a key step in the Ottoman expansion into northwestern Anatolia.
  • 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_69a88a1554a48190a0180682bcf099be completed March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc794eee481908163148e1e666d9b completed March 7, 2026, 6:37 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aea8ac3e80819099065f874f9dc25d completed March 9, 2026, 11:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aeabd9a5a08190a2c6699576e36c46 completed March 9, 2026, 11:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aead3299c88190af03577eef126387 completed March 9, 2026, 11:21 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:57 p.m.