Triple

T3490328
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of the Metaurus E73712 entity
Predicate opponentOf P4567 FINISHED
Object Hannibal’s Italian campaign
Hannibal’s Italian campaign was the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca’s audacious multi-year military offensive in Italy during the Second Punic War, marked by his famous Alpine crossing and a series of major victories against Rome.
E212290 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: Hannibal’s Italian campaign | Statement: [Battle of the Metaurus, opponentOf, Hannibal’s Italian campaign]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hannibal’s Italian campaign
Context triple: [Battle of the Metaurus, opponentOf, Hannibal’s Italian campaign]
  • A. Hannibal's crossing of the Alps
    Hannibal's crossing of the Alps was a daring military campaign in 218 BC in which the Carthaginian general led his army, including war elephants, over the Alpine mountains to launch a surprise invasion of Roman Italy.
  • B. Mutina campaign
    The Mutina campaign was a key episode in the late Roman Republic’s civil wars, centered on the 43 BC battles around Mutina between the forces of Mark Antony and the senatorial armies supporting the young Octavian.
  • C. Battle of Zama
    The Battle of Zama was the decisive 202 BCE clash in North Africa where Roman general Scipio Africanus defeated Carthaginian commander Hannibal, effectively ending Carthage’s power in the western Mediterranean.
  • D. Roman siege of Carthage
    The Roman siege of Carthage was the brutal, years-long assault (149–146 BC) in which Rome captured and destroyed the North African city of Carthage, ending the Third Punic War and Carthaginian power.
  • E. Battle of Cannae
    The Battle of Cannae was a major engagement in 216 BC during the Second Punic War in which Hannibal’s Carthaginian army annihilated a much larger Roman force, becoming one of history’s most famous examples of tactical encirclement.
  • 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: Hannibal’s Italian campaign
Triple: [Battle of the Metaurus, opponentOf, Hannibal’s Italian campaign]
Generated description
Hannibal’s Italian campaign was the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca’s audacious multi-year military offensive in Italy during the Second Punic War, marked by his famous Alpine crossing and a series of major victories against Rome.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hannibal’s Italian campaign
Target entity description: Hannibal’s Italian campaign was the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca’s audacious multi-year military offensive in Italy during the Second Punic War, marked by his famous Alpine crossing and a series of major victories against Rome.
  • A. Hannibal's crossing of the Alps chosen
    Hannibal's crossing of the Alps was a daring military campaign in 218 BC in which the Carthaginian general led his army, including war elephants, over the Alpine mountains to launch a surprise invasion of Roman Italy.
  • B. Mutina campaign
    The Mutina campaign was a key episode in the late Roman Republic’s civil wars, centered on the 43 BC battles around Mutina between the forces of Mark Antony and the senatorial armies supporting the young Octavian.
  • C. Battle of Zama
    The Battle of Zama was the decisive 202 BCE clash in North Africa where Roman general Scipio Africanus defeated Carthaginian commander Hannibal, effectively ending Carthage’s power in the western Mediterranean.
  • D. Roman siege of Carthage
    The Roman siege of Carthage was the brutal, years-long assault (149–146 BC) in which Rome captured and destroyed the North African city of Carthage, ending the Third Punic War and Carthaginian power.
  • E. Battle of Cannae
    The Battle of Cannae was a major engagement in 216 BC during the Second Punic War in which Hannibal’s Carthaginian army annihilated a much larger Roman force, becoming one of history’s most famous examples of tactical encirclement.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ad85cca8d4819088494e9f3340fab5 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbb94190c8190a81eb41042e51a00 completed March 8, 2026, 6:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b373bb0e00819087899a394f50295d completed March 13, 2026, 2:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b374bb36548190acd369ccef084907 completed March 13, 2026, 2:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3755597d8819081375fab35b75369 completed March 13, 2026, 2:24 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:18 p.m.