Triple

T376564
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Apostle Paul E8385 entity
Predicate birthPlace P1 FINISHED
Object Tarsus
Tarsus is an ancient city in Cilicia (in modern-day Turkey) known as a major cultural and commercial center of the Roman Empire and as the birthplace of the Apostle Paul.
 E47685 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: Tarsus | Statement: [Apostle Paul, birthPlace, Tarsus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tarsus
Context triple: [Apostle Paul, birthPlace, Tarsus]
  • A. Smyrna
    Smyrna was a major Aegean port city (modern-day İzmir in Turkey) that served as a key commercial and cultural hub in the Ottoman Empire.
  • B. Edessa
    Edessa was an ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia, renowned as a major early center of Syriac Christianity and culture.
  • C. Berytus
    Berytus is the ancient city that later became Beirut, a major coastal center of Phoenician and subsequently Greco-Roman and Byzantine civilization in the eastern Mediterranean.
  • D. Cyrene
    Cyrene is an ancient Greek and Roman city in eastern Libya renowned for its well-preserved ruins and historical significance as a major center of classical civilization.
  • E. Naissus
    Naissus was an important ancient Roman city in the province of Moesia, located at the site of modern-day Niš in Serbia.
  • 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: Tarsus
Triple: [Apostle Paul, birthPlace, Tarsus]
Generated description
Tarsus is an ancient city in Cilicia (in modern-day Turkey) known as a major cultural and commercial center of the Roman Empire and as the birthplace of the Apostle Paul.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tarsus
Target entity description: Tarsus is an ancient city in Cilicia (in modern-day Turkey) known as a major cultural and commercial center of the Roman Empire and as the birthplace of the Apostle Paul.
  • A. Smyrna
    Smyrna was a major Aegean port city (modern-day İzmir in Turkey) that served as a key commercial and cultural hub in the Ottoman Empire.
  • B. Edessa
    Edessa was an ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia, renowned as a major early center of Syriac Christianity and culture.
  • C. Berytus
    Berytus is the ancient city that later became Beirut, a major coastal center of Phoenician and subsequently Greco-Roman and Byzantine civilization in the eastern Mediterranean.
  • D. Cyrene
    Cyrene is an ancient Greek and Roman city in eastern Libya renowned for its well-preserved ruins and historical significance as a major center of classical civilization.
  • E. Naissus
    Naissus was an important ancient Roman city in the province of Moesia, located at the site of modern-day Niš in Serbia.
  • 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_69a2e7f2ec648190b42bc7db424f8109 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec169a848190a577aa093c878839 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3f4dd9a1c8190a0fc7012a24425c4 completed March 1, 2026, 8:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3f68ca09c81909c3ce88fe6c591dc completed March 1, 2026, 8:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3f6fd5fa48190b79f9eaea79c4dec completed March 1, 2026, 8:21 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.