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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.