Triple

T3344512
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pliny the Younger E70337 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Epistulae
Epistulae is a collection of letters by Pliny the Younger that offers a detailed and personal glimpse into Roman political, social, and intellectual life in the late first and early second centuries AD.
E350906 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: Epistulae | Statement: [Pliny the Younger, notableWork, Epistulae]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Epistulae
Context triple: [Pliny the Younger, notableWork, Epistulae]
  • A. Epistulae ex Ponto
    Epistulae ex Ponto is a collection of elegiac letters by the Roman poet Ovid, written during his exile on the Black Sea and addressed to friends and family in Rome.
  • B. Epistolae
    Epistolae is a collection of letters by Anselm of Canterbury that offers insight into his theological thought, spiritual guidance, and ecclesiastical affairs.
  • C. Epistles
    Epistles is a collection of poetic letters by the Roman poet Horace that blend moral reflection, literary criticism, and personal commentary in polished Latin verse.
  • D. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
    Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium is a collection of moral and philosophical letters by the Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger, offering practical guidance on ethics, virtue, and the good life.
  • E. Epistolae obscurorum virorum
    Epistolae obscurorum virorum is a satirical collection of fictitious letters from supposedly ignorant theologians that mocked scholasticism and supported the humanist and reformist movements in early 16th-century Germany.
  • 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: Epistulae
Triple: [Pliny the Younger, notableWork, Epistulae]
Generated description
Epistulae is a collection of letters by Pliny the Younger that offers a detailed and personal glimpse into Roman political, social, and intellectual life in the late first and early second centuries AD.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Epistulae
Target entity description: Epistulae is a collection of letters by Pliny the Younger that offers a detailed and personal glimpse into Roman political, social, and intellectual life in the late first and early second centuries AD.
  • A. Epistulae ex Ponto
    Epistulae ex Ponto is a collection of elegiac letters by the Roman poet Ovid, written during his exile on the Black Sea and addressed to friends and family in Rome.
  • B. Epistolae
    Epistolae is a collection of letters by Anselm of Canterbury that offers insight into his theological thought, spiritual guidance, and ecclesiastical affairs.
  • C. Epistles
    Epistles is a collection of poetic letters by the Roman poet Horace that blend moral reflection, literary criticism, and personal commentary in polished Latin verse.
  • D. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
    Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium is a collection of moral and philosophical letters by the Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger, offering practical guidance on ethics, virtue, and the good life.
  • E. Epistolae obscurorum virorum
    Epistolae obscurorum virorum is a satirical collection of fictitious letters from supposedly ignorant theologians that mocked scholasticism and supported the humanist and reformist movements in early 16th-century Germany.
  • 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_69ad85a405e48190b6e68de7cf9f319e completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb1f23008819084ea68b8431c50ab completed March 8, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b3251d49d08190b74483b69024acff completed March 12, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b326a29cbc8190a5ae5fd5851ed0c7 completed March 12, 2026, 8:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3270962648190925b04e44542c9c9 completed March 12, 2026, 8:50 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:12 p.m.