Triple

T3664372
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925 film) E77725 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Messala
Messala is the ambitious and ruthless Roman antagonist in the 1925 silent film adaptation of "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ," whose betrayal of his childhood friend Judah Ben-Hur drives the central conflict.
 E378709 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: Messala | Statement: [Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925 film), character, Messala]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Messala
Context triple: [Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925 film), character, Messala]
  • A. Megaris
    Megaris was an ancient Greek region in central Greece, situated between Attica and Corinthia and centered around the city-state of Megara.
  • B. Tmolos
    Tmolos is a minor Greek mountain god associated with the mountain range in Lydia, often linked to rustic divinities and local cults.
  • C. Marinos
    Marinos is the commonly used nickname for Yokohama F. Marinos, a prominent professional football club in Japan’s J1 League.
  • D. Artemios
    Artemios is the given first name of Greek singer Demis Roussos, an internationally renowned pop and rock vocalist.
  • E. Antonis
    Antonis is a Greek given name, commonly used as a variant of Anthony.
  • 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: Messala
Triple: [Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925 film), character, Messala]
Generated description
Messala is the ambitious and ruthless Roman antagonist in the 1925 silent film adaptation of "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ," whose betrayal of his childhood friend Judah Ben-Hur drives the central conflict.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Messala
Target entity description: Messala is the ambitious and ruthless Roman antagonist in the 1925 silent film adaptation of "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ," whose betrayal of his childhood friend Judah Ben-Hur drives the central conflict.
  • A. Megaris
    Megaris was an ancient Greek region in central Greece, situated between Attica and Corinthia and centered around the city-state of Megara.
  • B. Tmolos
    Tmolos is a minor Greek mountain god associated with the mountain range in Lydia, often linked to rustic divinities and local cults.
  • C. Marinos
    Marinos is the commonly used nickname for Yokohama F. Marinos, a prominent professional football club in Japan’s J1 League.
  • D. Artemios
    Artemios is the given first name of Greek singer Demis Roussos, an internationally renowned pop and rock vocalist.
  • E. Antonis
    Antonis is a Greek given name, commonly used as a variant of Anthony.
  • 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_69ad85dfc4dc8190a441864202ab2a7a completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc3fe5eb08190ab15044acf9ac8a9 completed March 8, 2026, 6:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b48848be788190acde46880918d36b completed March 13, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b489c9a21081908b5e6468205e5c68 completed March 13, 2026, 10:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4bcaa45cc8190a5db8bfd8845efb1 completed March 14, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:25 p.m.