Triple

T585375
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thessaly E15145 entity
Predicate containsCity P294 FINISHED
Object Pharsalus
Pharsalus is an ancient city in central Greece best known as the site near which Julius Caesar decisively defeated Pompey in 48 BCE during the Roman civil war.
E74225 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: Pharsalus | Statement: [Thessaly, containsCity, Pharsalus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pharsalus
Context triple: [Thessaly, containsCity, Pharsalus]
  • A. Battle of Pollentia
    The Battle of Pollentia was a pivotal 402 AD clash in northern Italy where Roman forces under Stilicho confronted Alaric’s Visigoths, temporarily halting their advance into the Western Roman Empire.
  • B. Battle of Lake Trasimene
    The Battle of Lake Trasimene was a major Carthaginian victory in 217 BC during the Second Punic War, where Hannibal famously ambushed and annihilated a Roman army in one of history’s largest and most successful ambushes.
  • C. Battle of Cannae
    The Battle of Cannae was a major engagement in 216 BC during the Second Punic War in which Hannibal’s Carthaginian army annihilated a much larger Roman force, becoming one of history’s most famous examples of tactical encirclement.
  • D. Battle of Heraclea
    The Battle of Heraclea was a major 280 BC clash in southern Italy where King Pyrrhus of Epirus defeated the Romans in one of the earliest and most famous engagements of the Pyrrhic War.
  • E. Actium
    Actium is an ancient promontory and town in western Greece, near the entrance to the Ambracian Gulf, best known as the site of the decisive naval Battle of Actium in 31 BCE.
  • 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: Pharsalus
Triple: [Thessaly, containsCity, Pharsalus]
Generated description
Pharsalus is an ancient city in central Greece best known as the site near which Julius Caesar decisively defeated Pompey in 48 BCE during the Roman civil war.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pharsalus
Target entity description: Pharsalus is an ancient city in central Greece best known as the site near which Julius Caesar decisively defeated Pompey in 48 BCE during the Roman civil war.
  • A. Battle of Pollentia
    The Battle of Pollentia was a pivotal 402 AD clash in northern Italy where Roman forces under Stilicho confronted Alaric’s Visigoths, temporarily halting their advance into the Western Roman Empire.
  • B. Battle of Lake Trasimene
    The Battle of Lake Trasimene was a major Carthaginian victory in 217 BC during the Second Punic War, where Hannibal famously ambushed and annihilated a Roman army in one of history’s largest and most successful ambushes.
  • C. Battle of Cannae
    The Battle of Cannae was a major engagement in 216 BC during the Second Punic War in which Hannibal’s Carthaginian army annihilated a much larger Roman force, becoming one of history’s most famous examples of tactical encirclement.
  • D. Battle of Heraclea
    The Battle of Heraclea was a major 280 BC clash in southern Italy where King Pyrrhus of Epirus defeated the Romans in one of the earliest and most famous engagements of the Pyrrhic War.
  • E. Actium
    Actium is an ancient promontory and town in western Greece, near the entrance to the Ambracian Gulf, best known as the site of the decisive naval Battle of Actium in 31 BCE.
  • 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_69a4935783b8819082b77726ec10cc42 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49b9874c88190bd1e08d4689ea124 completed March 1, 2026, 8:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5155210dc8190bad32b49703641e2 completed March 2, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a51788f870819099271dcb41ee4bda completed March 2, 2026, 4:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a51846caa481909a61fa29a44b7470 completed March 2, 2026, 4:55 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.