Triple

T3591504
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sophists E76034 entity
Predicate includesMember P3401 FINISHED
Object Prodicus
Prodicus was a 5th-century BCE Greek sophist and philosopher from Ceos, known for his precise distinctions between words and his influential moral allegory "The Choice of Heracles."
E375148 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: Prodicus | Statement: [Sophists, includesMember, Prodicus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Prodicus
Context triple: [Sophists, includesMember, Prodicus]
  • A. Timaeus of Locri
    Timaeus of Locri is a Pythagorean philosopher, known primarily as the central speaker in Plato’s dialogue "Timaeus," where he expounds a cosmological account of the universe’s creation and structure.
  • B. Polemon of Athens
    Polemon of Athens was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Platonic tradition who led the Academy in the early 3rd century BCE and emphasized practical ethics and living in accordance with nature.
  • C. Hegesias of Cyrene
    Hegesias of Cyrene was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Cyrenaic school known for his extreme pessimism and advocacy of the view that happiness is unattainable, earning him the nickname "the Death-Persuader."
  • D. Philocrates
    Philocrates is the purported recipient and addressee of the ancient Jewish-Hellenistic work known as the Letter of Aristeas.
  • E. Timaeus of Tauromenium
    Timaeus of Tauromenium was an ancient Greek historian of Magna Graecia, best known for his extensive universal history that greatly influenced later writers like Polybius and Diodorus Siculus.
  • 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: Prodicus
Triple: [Sophists, includesMember, Prodicus]
Generated description
Prodicus was a 5th-century BCE Greek sophist and philosopher from Ceos, known for his precise distinctions between words and his influential moral allegory "The Choice of Heracles."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Prodicus
Target entity description: Prodicus was a 5th-century BCE Greek sophist and philosopher from Ceos, known for his precise distinctions between words and his influential moral allegory "The Choice of Heracles."
  • A. Timaeus of Locri
    Timaeus of Locri is a Pythagorean philosopher, known primarily as the central speaker in Plato’s dialogue "Timaeus," where he expounds a cosmological account of the universe’s creation and structure.
  • B. Polemon of Athens
    Polemon of Athens was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Platonic tradition who led the Academy in the early 3rd century BCE and emphasized practical ethics and living in accordance with nature.
  • C. Hegesias of Cyrene
    Hegesias of Cyrene was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Cyrenaic school known for his extreme pessimism and advocacy of the view that happiness is unattainable, earning him the nickname "the Death-Persuader."
  • D. Philocrates
    Philocrates is the purported recipient and addressee of the ancient Jewish-Hellenistic work known as the Letter of Aristeas.
  • E. Timaeus of Tauromenium
    Timaeus of Tauromenium was an ancient Greek historian of Magna Graecia, best known for his extensive universal history that greatly influenced later writers like Polybius and Diodorus Siculus.
  • 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_69ad85d8042081908af94a04c410dec0 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc1581278819081dd73b4c71e422e completed March 8, 2026, 6:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b44efa419481908f07a9367adc4e42 completed March 13, 2026, 5:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4505350e4819085ef8cca532d9eda completed March 13, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b450a915b081908889b4c5ea2d3024 completed March 13, 2026, 6 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:22 p.m.