Triple

T545361
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Downtown Hannibal Historic District E12719 entity
Predicate city P40 FINISHED
Object Hannibal
Hannibal is a historic Mississippi River town in Missouri best known as the boyhood home of Mark Twain and the setting for many of his classic works.
E68792 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: Hannibal | Statement: [Downtown Hannibal Historic District, city, Hannibal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hannibal
Context triple: [Downtown Hannibal Historic District, city, Hannibal]
  • A. Hannibal (Carthaginian general)
    Hannibal was a renowned Carthaginian military commander of the Second Punic War, best known for leading his army, including war elephants, across the Alps to fight the Roman Republic.
  • B. Scipio Africanus
    Scipio Africanus was a prominent Roman general and statesman best known for defeating Hannibal in the Second Punic War and securing Rome’s dominance in the western Mediterranean.
  • C. Alessandro
    Alessandro is the Italian form of the given name Alexander, commonly used in Italy and among Italian-speaking communities.
  • D. Marshal Catinat
    Marshal Catinat was a prominent 17th-century French general and Marshal of France, noted for his disciplined leadership and key victories under Louis XIV.
  • E. Sicel
    Sicel was an ancient Indo-European language once spoken by the Sicel people in eastern Sicily before the dominance of Latin and Greek in the region.
  • 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: Hannibal
Triple: [Downtown Hannibal Historic District, city, Hannibal]
Generated description
Hannibal is a historic Mississippi River town in Missouri best known as the boyhood home of Mark Twain and the setting for many of his classic works.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hannibal
Target entity description: Hannibal is a historic Mississippi River town in Missouri best known as the boyhood home of Mark Twain and the setting for many of his classic works.
  • A. Hannibal (Carthaginian general)
    Hannibal was a renowned Carthaginian military commander of the Second Punic War, best known for leading his army, including war elephants, across the Alps to fight the Roman Republic.
  • B. Scipio Africanus
    Scipio Africanus was a prominent Roman general and statesman best known for defeating Hannibal in the Second Punic War and securing Rome’s dominance in the western Mediterranean.
  • C. Alessandro
    Alessandro is the Italian form of the given name Alexander, commonly used in Italy and among Italian-speaking communities.
  • D. Marshal Catinat
    Marshal Catinat was a prominent 17th-century French general and Marshal of France, noted for his disciplined leadership and key victories under Louis XIV.
  • E. Sicel
    Sicel was an ancient Indo-European language once spoken by the Sicel people in eastern Sicily before the dominance of Latin and Greek in the region.
  • 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_69a498dfec5c81908b76d723b30dc2f0 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4e02e0c1c81908fcb5356dc2b8f97 completed March 2, 2026, 12:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4e124306c8190bce165e684507553 completed March 2, 2026, 1 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4e1e73b0c8190b4f050f76f8e58de completed March 2, 2026, 1:03 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.