Triple

T4472270
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Norman conquest of southern Italy E98520 entity
Predicate describedBySource P519 FINISHED
Object Geoffrey Malaterra
Geoffrey Malaterra was an 11th-century Benedictine monk and chronicler best known for his Latin history of the Norman expansion in southern Italy and Sicily.
E445335 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: Geoffrey Malaterra | Statement: [Norman conquest of southern Italy, describedBySource, Geoffrey Malaterra]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Geoffrey Malaterra
Context triple: [Norman conquest of southern Italy, describedBySource, Geoffrey Malaterra]
  • A. William of Apulia
    William of Apulia was an 11th-century Latin poet and chronicler best known for his epic account of the Norman expansion in southern Italy under Robert Guiscard.
  • B. Guy de Montfort, Count of Nola
    Guy de Montfort, Count of Nola, was a 13th-century Anglo-French nobleman and soldier infamous for murdering Henry of Almain in a church during the Second Barons' War.
  • C. Boniface I of Montferrat
    Boniface I of Montferrat was a prominent late 12th–early 13th century Italian noble and crusader leader who played a key role in the Fourth Crusade and the politics of the eastern Mediterranean.
  • D. Jan Baudouin de Courtenay
    Jan Baudouin de Courtenay was a pioneering Polish linguist and Slavist whose work on phonology and the theory of phonemes profoundly influenced modern linguistics.
  • E. Mauger of Hauteville
    Mauger of Hauteville was a Norman nobleman of the influential Hauteville family, known primarily as a son of Roger I of Sicily.
  • 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: Geoffrey Malaterra
Triple: [Norman conquest of southern Italy, describedBySource, Geoffrey Malaterra]
Generated description
Geoffrey Malaterra was an 11th-century Benedictine monk and chronicler best known for his Latin history of the Norman expansion in southern Italy and Sicily.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Geoffrey Malaterra
Target entity description: Geoffrey Malaterra was an 11th-century Benedictine monk and chronicler best known for his Latin history of the Norman expansion in southern Italy and Sicily.
  • A. William of Apulia
    William of Apulia was an 11th-century Latin poet and chronicler best known for his epic account of the Norman expansion in southern Italy under Robert Guiscard.
  • B. Guy de Montfort, Count of Nola
    Guy de Montfort, Count of Nola, was a 13th-century Anglo-French nobleman and soldier infamous for murdering Henry of Almain in a church during the Second Barons' War.
  • C. Boniface I of Montferrat
    Boniface I of Montferrat was a prominent late 12th–early 13th century Italian noble and crusader leader who played a key role in the Fourth Crusade and the politics of the eastern Mediterranean.
  • D. Jan Baudouin de Courtenay
    Jan Baudouin de Courtenay was a pioneering Polish linguist and Slavist whose work on phonology and the theory of phonemes profoundly influenced modern linguistics.
  • E. Mauger of Hauteville
    Mauger of Hauteville was a Norman nobleman of the influential Hauteville family, known primarily as a son of Roger I of Sicily.
  • 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_69b3454b4ae481908967426dd37284d6 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b356b832c0819096f76b694277d36e completed March 13, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b67bae950c8190a9ef8a812d47bf8d completed March 15, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b67d31cf58819091fa5642c4bb79a7 completed March 15, 2026, 9:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b67e6a58e0819086b510a53ff23bb3 completed March 15, 2026, 9:39 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:35 p.m.