Triple

T543528
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Western Roman Empire E12682 entity
Predicate militaryLeader P15490 FINISHED
Object Ricimer
Ricimer was a powerful 5th-century Germanic general and kingmaker who dominated Western Roman politics by installing and deposing emperors while never claiming the imperial title himself.
E73867 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: Ricimer | Statement: [Western Roman Empire, militaryLeader, Ricimer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ricimer
Context triple: [Western Roman Empire, militaryLeader, Ricimer]
  • A. Odoacer
    Odoacer was a Germanic chieftain and military leader who overthrew the last Western Roman emperor in 476 AD, effectively ending the Western Roman Empire and ruling Italy as its first barbarian king.
  • B. Stilicho
    Stilicho was a prominent late Roman general and statesman of Vandal descent who effectively ruled the Western Roman Empire as regent during the reign of Emperor Honorius.
  • C. Avitus
    Avitus was a short-reigned 5th-century Western Roman emperor whose rule was marked by political instability and the empire’s accelerating decline.
  • D. Majorian
    Majorian was a 5th-century Western Roman emperor noted for his energetic but ultimately unsuccessful efforts to restore the crumbling empire through military campaigns and administrative reforms.
  • E. Genseric
    Genseric was the powerful Vandal king who ruled North Africa in the 5th century and became infamous for leading the Vandals in the plundering of Rome in 455.
  • 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: Ricimer
Triple: [Western Roman Empire, militaryLeader, Ricimer]
Generated description
Ricimer was a powerful 5th-century Germanic general and kingmaker who dominated Western Roman politics by installing and deposing emperors while never claiming the imperial title himself.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ricimer
Target entity description: Ricimer was a powerful 5th-century Germanic general and kingmaker who dominated Western Roman politics by installing and deposing emperors while never claiming the imperial title himself.
  • A. Odoacer
    Odoacer was a Germanic chieftain and military leader who overthrew the last Western Roman emperor in 476 AD, effectively ending the Western Roman Empire and ruling Italy as its first barbarian king.
  • B. Stilicho
    Stilicho was a prominent late Roman general and statesman of Vandal descent who effectively ruled the Western Roman Empire as regent during the reign of Emperor Honorius.
  • C. Avitus
    Avitus was a short-reigned 5th-century Western Roman emperor whose rule was marked by political instability and the empire’s accelerating decline.
  • D. Majorian
    Majorian was a 5th-century Western Roman emperor noted for his energetic but ultimately unsuccessful efforts to restore the crumbling empire through military campaigns and administrative reforms.
  • E. Genseric
    Genseric was the powerful Vandal king who ruled North Africa in the 5th century and became infamous for leading the Vandals in the plundering of Rome in 455.
  • 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_69a49334226c81908b0ea1689ef6aa3f completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49d278cf88190ad1368da91a7014f completed March 1, 2026, 8:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5154fa9b48190be235b95548bbb94 completed March 2, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a515d673e08190bf66072a20c5b912 completed March 2, 2026, 4:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5168e76448190aec260b3b9b4bdc6 completed March 2, 2026, 4:48 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.