Triple

T5385379
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Balkh E120189 entity
Predicate knownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Bactra
Bactra is the ancient name of Balkh, a historically significant city in northern Afghanistan that was a major center of trade, culture, and religion along the Silk Road.
E515452 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: Bactra | Statement: [Balkh, knownAs, Bactra]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bactra
Context triple: [Balkh, knownAs, Bactra]
  • A. Panticapaeum
    Panticapaeum was an important ancient Greek city and trading center on the Cimmerian Bosporus, located where the modern city of Kerch in Crimea now stands.
  • B. Tushpa
    Tushpa was the ancient fortified city on the eastern shore of Lake Van that served as the political and cultural center of the Kingdom of Urartu in the early first millennium BCE.
  • C. Selymbria
    Selymbria was an ancient Greek colony on the Propontis (Sea of Marmara), known as a coastal city strategically located near the later site of Constantinople.
  • D. Anazarbus
    Anazarbus was an important ancient city in the region of Cilicia, in what is now southern Turkey, known for its strategic location and impressive fortifications.
  • E. Gerrha
    Gerrha was an ancient, wealthy trading city-state in Eastern Arabia that controlled key caravan and maritime routes linking Mesopotamia, Arabia, and the Indian Ocean.
  • 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: Bactra
Triple: [Balkh, knownAs, Bactra]
Generated description
Bactra is the ancient name of Balkh, a historically significant city in northern Afghanistan that was a major center of trade, culture, and religion along the Silk Road.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bactra
Target entity description: Bactra is the ancient name of Balkh, a historically significant city in northern Afghanistan that was a major center of trade, culture, and religion along the Silk Road.
  • A. Panticapaeum
    Panticapaeum was an important ancient Greek city and trading center on the Cimmerian Bosporus, located where the modern city of Kerch in Crimea now stands.
  • B. Tushpa
    Tushpa was the ancient fortified city on the eastern shore of Lake Van that served as the political and cultural center of the Kingdom of Urartu in the early first millennium BCE.
  • C. Selymbria
    Selymbria was an ancient Greek colony on the Propontis (Sea of Marmara), known as a coastal city strategically located near the later site of Constantinople.
  • D. Anazarbus
    Anazarbus was an important ancient city in the region of Cilicia, in what is now southern Turkey, known for its strategic location and impressive fortifications.
  • E. Gerrha
    Gerrha was an ancient, wealthy trading city-state in Eastern Arabia that controlled key caravan and maritime routes linking Mesopotamia, Arabia, and the Indian Ocean.
  • 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_69bd46354c648190a38b26f107010a96 completed March 20, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd86f5a7388190aa4ba2052afca74e completed March 20, 2026, 5:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf295352988190a48d3f9db56fcaf8 completed March 21, 2026, 11:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf29f4c56481908d3f83ec6e7ba96a completed March 21, 2026, 11:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf2ab19a50819098ef5a611daa8cd6 completed March 21, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:03 p.m.