Triple

T549752
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hannibal E11810 entity
Predicate opponent P437 FINISHED
Object Gaius Terentius Varro
Gaius Terentius Varro was a Roman consul and military commander best known for co-leading the Roman forces that suffered a devastating defeat to Hannibal at the Battle of Cannae during the Second Punic War.
E68921 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: Gaius Terentius Varro | Statement: [Hannibal, opponent, Gaius Terentius Varro]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gaius Terentius Varro
Context triple: [Hannibal, opponent, Gaius Terentius Varro]
  • A. Horace
    Horace is a masculine given name of Latin origin, historically associated with figures such as the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus and later borne by notable individuals like the English writer and politician Horace Walpole.
  • B. Cicero
    Cicero was a renowned Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher whose speeches and writings profoundly influenced Latin literature and Western political thought.
  • C. Seneca the Younger
    Seneca the Younger was a prominent Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and playwright who served as advisor to Emperor Nero and authored influential works on ethics and practical wisdom.
  • D. Publius
    Publius was the shared pseudonym used by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay when writing the influential essays known as The Federalist Papers advocating for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
  • E. Appius Claudius Caecus
    Appius Claudius Caecus was a prominent Roman statesman and censor of the early Republic, best known for initiating the construction of the Via Appia and the Aqua Appia and for his influential political and legal reforms.
  • 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: Gaius Terentius Varro
Triple: [Hannibal, opponent, Gaius Terentius Varro]
Generated description
Gaius Terentius Varro was a Roman consul and military commander best known for co-leading the Roman forces that suffered a devastating defeat to Hannibal at the Battle of Cannae during the Second Punic War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gaius Terentius Varro
Target entity description: Gaius Terentius Varro was a Roman consul and military commander best known for co-leading the Roman forces that suffered a devastating defeat to Hannibal at the Battle of Cannae during the Second Punic War.
  • A. Horace
    Horace is a masculine given name of Latin origin, historically associated with figures such as the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus and later borne by notable individuals like the English writer and politician Horace Walpole.
  • B. Cicero
    Cicero was a renowned Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher whose speeches and writings profoundly influenced Latin literature and Western political thought.
  • C. Seneca the Younger
    Seneca the Younger was a prominent Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and playwright who served as advisor to Emperor Nero and authored influential works on ethics and practical wisdom.
  • D. Publius
    Publius was the shared pseudonym used by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay when writing the influential essays known as The Federalist Papers advocating for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
  • E. Appius Claudius Caecus
    Appius Claudius Caecus was a prominent Roman statesman and censor of the early Republic, best known for initiating the construction of the Via Appia and the Aqua Appia and for his influential political and legal reforms.
  • 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_69a4932941d08190815efd422f0b4ca7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49901e4e481909a5ed93c21ab37bd completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4e0301ea08190ada81259b7c862f6 completed March 2, 2026, 12:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4e09ce7a48190b29e364be6317081 completed March 2, 2026, 12:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4e10dc17881908399e10b705381cd completed March 2, 2026, 12:59 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.