Triple

T337646
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sack of Rome (455) E6762 entity
Predicate involvedEthnicGroup P12220 FINISHED
Object Alans
The Alans were an ancient nomadic Iranian people known for their cavalry and for participating in major events of the late Roman Empire, including the Vandal-led sack of Rome in 455.
E43487 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: Alans | Statement: [Sack of Rome (455), involvedEthnicGroup, Alans]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alans
Context triple: [Sack of Rome (455), involvedEthnicGroup, Alans]
  • A. Ligurians
    The Ligurians were an ancient people of northwestern Italy and southeastern France, known for their distinct pre-Roman culture and language and for influencing later regional populations.
  • B. Veneti people
    The Veneti people were an ancient Indo-European population of northeastern Italy, known from classical sources for their distinct culture, trade connections, and now-extinct Venetic language.
  • C. Druyan
    Druyan is the surname of Ann Druyan, an American writer and producer best known for her work on the Cosmos science documentary series and for her collaboration with astronomer Carl Sagan.
  • D. Gurians
    Gurians are a regional Georgian ethnic group from the historical province of Guria in western Georgia, known for their distinct dialect, folklore, and cultural traditions.
  • E. Numida
    Numida is a genus of guineafowl, best known for the helmeted guineafowl commonly domesticated for meat and pest control.
  • 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: Alans
Triple: [Sack of Rome (455), involvedEthnicGroup, Alans]
Generated description
The Alans were an ancient nomadic Iranian people known for their cavalry and for participating in major events of the late Roman Empire, including the Vandal-led sack of Rome in 455.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alans
Target entity description: The Alans were an ancient nomadic Iranian people known for their cavalry and for participating in major events of the late Roman Empire, including the Vandal-led sack of Rome in 455.
  • A. Ligurians
    The Ligurians were an ancient people of northwestern Italy and southeastern France, known for their distinct pre-Roman culture and language and for influencing later regional populations.
  • B. Veneti people
    The Veneti people were an ancient Indo-European population of northeastern Italy, known from classical sources for their distinct culture, trade connections, and now-extinct Venetic language.
  • C. Druyan
    Druyan is the surname of Ann Druyan, an American writer and producer best known for her work on the Cosmos science documentary series and for her collaboration with astronomer Carl Sagan.
  • D. Gurians
    Gurians are a regional Georgian ethnic group from the historical province of Guria in western Georgia, known for their distinct dialect, folklore, and cultural traditions.
  • E. Numida
    Numida is a genus of guineafowl, best known for the helmeted guineafowl commonly domesticated for meat and pest control.
  • 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_69a2e79434908190a9d5afe415153ad9 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ee028c488190ad0109510de2956d completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3d4e56b448190aac66218417e95b8 completed March 1, 2026, 5:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3d53d4b788190936b3c5f92877c8d completed March 1, 2026, 5:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3d602aa6881908fbdb4c25e8f8cb5 completed March 1, 2026, 6 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.