Triple

T389537
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Abbasid Caliphate E8851 entity
Predicate capital P234 FINISHED
Object Samarra
Samarra is an ancient Iraqi city on the Tigris River renowned for its monumental Islamic architecture, especially the spiral minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra.
 E51046 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: Samarra | Statement: [Abbasid Caliphate, capital, Samarra]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Samarra
Context triple: [Abbasid Caliphate, capital, Samarra]
  • A. Nineveh
    Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, famed as a major political and cultural center and once the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
  • B. Damascus
    Damascus is the capital and one of the largest cities of Syria, renowned as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and a historic cultural and commercial center of the Arab world.
  • C. Baghdad
    Baghdad is the capital and largest city of Iraq, historically renowned as a major center of the Islamic Golden Age and a key cultural and economic hub of the Arab world.
  • D. Edessa
    Edessa was an ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia, renowned as a major early center of Syriac Christianity and culture.
  • E. Nippur
    Nippur was an ancient Sumerian city in Mesopotamia that served as a major religious center dedicated to the god Enlil.
  • 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: Samarra
Triple: [Abbasid Caliphate, capital, Samarra]
Generated description
Samarra is an ancient Iraqi city on the Tigris River renowned for its monumental Islamic architecture, especially the spiral minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Samarra
Target entity description: Samarra is an ancient Iraqi city on the Tigris River renowned for its monumental Islamic architecture, especially the spiral minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra.
  • A. Nineveh
    Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, famed as a major political and cultural center and once the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
  • B. Damascus
    Damascus is the capital and one of the largest cities of Syria, renowned as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and a historic cultural and commercial center of the Arab world.
  • C. Baghdad
    Baghdad is the capital and largest city of Iraq, historically renowned as a major center of the Islamic Golden Age and a key cultural and economic hub of the Arab world.
  • D. Edessa
    Edessa was an ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia, renowned as a major early center of Syriac Christianity and culture.
  • E. Nippur
    Nippur was an ancient Sumerian city in Mesopotamia that served as a major religious center dedicated to the god Enlil.
  • 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_69a2e7f55c60819097aff65ea2ca2832 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec5bdc848190826701590070497b completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4103bcd788190bbbe4ddf8f71171a completed March 1, 2026, 10:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a41108fce081908efb6b08dc0a7a63 completed March 1, 2026, 10:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4134170008190a5a7d9567de6cc09 completed March 1, 2026, 10:21 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.