Triple

T3522605
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Library of Alexandria E74457 entity
Predicate notableScholar P22 FINISHED
Object Zenodotus of Ephesus
Zenodotus of Ephesus was an ancient Greek grammarian and scholar, best known as the first librarian of the Library of Alexandria and an early editor of Homeric poetry.
E364353 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: Zenodotus of Ephesus | Statement: [Library of Alexandria, notableScholar, Zenodotus of Ephesus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zenodotus of Ephesus
Context triple: [Library of Alexandria, notableScholar, Zenodotus of Ephesus]
  • A. Appian of Alexandria
    Appian of Alexandria was a 2nd-century AD Greek historian and Roman official best known for his multi-volume work "Roman History," which chronicles Rome’s rise and its civil wars.
  • B. Philo of Byzantium
    Philo of Byzantium was a Hellenistic engineer and writer known for his works on mechanics and for one of the earliest surviving accounts of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
  • C. Apollodorus of Damascus
    Apollodorus of Damascus was a prominent 2nd-century Roman architect and engineer known for designing major imperial projects under Emperor Trajan, including monumental buildings and infrastructure across the Roman Empire.
  • D. Alexander of Alexandria
    Alexander of Alexandria was a 4th-century Patriarch of Alexandria best known for his staunch defense of Nicene orthodoxy and his early opposition to the teachings of Arius.
  • E. Heraclides Ponticus
    Heraclides Ponticus was a 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher and astronomer known for proposing that the Earth rotates on its axis and for early heliocentric ideas.
  • 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: Zenodotus of Ephesus
Triple: [Library of Alexandria, notableScholar, Zenodotus of Ephesus]
Generated description
Zenodotus of Ephesus was an ancient Greek grammarian and scholar, best known as the first librarian of the Library of Alexandria and an early editor of Homeric poetry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zenodotus of Ephesus
Target entity description: Zenodotus of Ephesus was an ancient Greek grammarian and scholar, best known as the first librarian of the Library of Alexandria and an early editor of Homeric poetry.
  • A. Appian of Alexandria
    Appian of Alexandria was a 2nd-century AD Greek historian and Roman official best known for his multi-volume work "Roman History," which chronicles Rome’s rise and its civil wars.
  • B. Philo of Byzantium
    Philo of Byzantium was a Hellenistic engineer and writer known for his works on mechanics and for one of the earliest surviving accounts of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
  • C. Apollodorus of Damascus
    Apollodorus of Damascus was a prominent 2nd-century Roman architect and engineer known for designing major imperial projects under Emperor Trajan, including monumental buildings and infrastructure across the Roman Empire.
  • D. Alexander of Alexandria
    Alexander of Alexandria was a 4th-century Patriarch of Alexandria best known for his staunch defense of Nicene orthodoxy and his early opposition to the teachings of Arius.
  • E. Heraclides Ponticus
    Heraclides Ponticus was a 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher and astronomer known for proposing that the Earth rotates on its axis and for early heliocentric ideas.
  • 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_69ad85d0c5488190a3d8e02ebd01a1aa completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbc4dd6d48190a5a3f4b86c82b86c completed March 8, 2026, 6:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b37e87c7948190901d98f34e3987eb completed March 13, 2026, 3:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b37f13d5e881908eaa05b11e493e8b completed March 13, 2026, 3:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b37f703ff081908a9aa3588da52d76 completed March 13, 2026, 3:07 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:19 p.m.