Triple

T300987
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Phoenician civilization E6197 entity
Predicate hasCity P316 FINISHED
Object Berytus
Berytus is the ancient city that later became Beirut, a major coastal center of Phoenician and subsequently Greco-Roman and Byzantine civilization in the eastern Mediterranean.
E40318 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: Berytus | Statement: [Phoenician civilization, hasCity, Berytus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Berytus
Context triple: [Phoenician civilization, hasCity, Berytus]
  • A. Nicomedia (traditionally)
    Nicomedia (traditionally) is an ancient city in northwestern Asia Minor, near the Sea of Marmara, that served as a major Roman and later Byzantine administrative center.
  • B. Damascus
    Damascus is the capital and one of the largest cities of Syria, renowned as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and a historic cultural and commercial center of the Arab world.
  • C. Naissus
    Naissus was an important ancient Roman city in the province of Moesia, located at the site of modern-day Niš in Serbia.
  • D. Cyrene
    Cyrene is an ancient Greek and Roman city in eastern Libya renowned for its well-preserved ruins and historical significance as a major center of classical civilization.
  • E. Tartus
    Tartus is a major Syrian port city on the Mediterranean coast that hosts Russia’s only naval facility outside the former Soviet Union.
  • 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: Berytus
Triple: [Phoenician civilization, hasCity, Berytus]
Generated description
Berytus is the ancient city that later became Beirut, a major coastal center of Phoenician and subsequently Greco-Roman and Byzantine civilization in the eastern Mediterranean.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Berytus
Target entity description: Berytus is the ancient city that later became Beirut, a major coastal center of Phoenician and subsequently Greco-Roman and Byzantine civilization in the eastern Mediterranean.
  • A. Nicomedia (traditionally)
    Nicomedia (traditionally) is an ancient city in northwestern Asia Minor, near the Sea of Marmara, that served as a major Roman and later Byzantine administrative center.
  • B. Damascus
    Damascus is the capital and one of the largest cities of Syria, renowned as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and a historic cultural and commercial center of the Arab world.
  • C. Naissus
    Naissus was an important ancient Roman city in the province of Moesia, located at the site of modern-day Niš in Serbia.
  • D. Cyrene
    Cyrene is an ancient Greek and Roman city in eastern Libya renowned for its well-preserved ruins and historical significance as a major center of classical civilization.
  • E. Tartus
    Tartus is a major Syrian port city on the Mediterranean coast that hosts Russia’s only naval facility outside the former Soviet Union.
  • 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_69a2e79114b081909490b3bf5a5dbb51 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2e9e6a8308190b9bd15310e324504 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3bc2353408190b7658595498895bb completed March 1, 2026, 4:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3bc94ea2c8190b2a0c0bca7af5f94 completed March 1, 2026, 4:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3bd0357088190a144c6c408804f30 completed March 1, 2026, 4:13 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.