Triple

T6054475
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Philo of Byzantium E134874 entity
Predicate alternateName P39 FINISHED
Object Philo Mechanicus
Philo Mechanicus was an ancient Greek engineer and writer from Byzantium known for his influential treatises on mechanics, artillery, and military technology.
E563970 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: Philo Mechanicus | Statement: [Philo of Byzantium, alternateName, Philo Mechanicus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philo Mechanicus
Context triple: [Philo of Byzantium, alternateName, Philo Mechanicus]
  • A. Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher
    Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher is a philosophical dialogue by George Berkeley that critiques freethinkers and defends Christian religion and immaterialist philosophy.
  • B. The Allegory of the Mechanical Arts
    The Allegory of the Mechanical Arts is a painting by Dutch Mannerist artist Abraham Bloemaert that personifies and celebrates various crafts and trades through symbolic figures and objects.
  • C. Somnium Scipionis
    Somnium Scipionis is a philosophical dream-vision from Cicero’s De re publica that explores the soul’s immortality, cosmic order, and the rewards of virtuous public service.
  • D. La Scienza Nuova
    La Scienza Nuova is Giambattista Vico’s seminal philosophical treatise that proposes a cyclical theory of history and lays the foundations for modern philosophy of history and cultural anthropology.
  • E. The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices
    The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices is a 13th-century illustrated manuscript that systematically documents Al-Jazari’s innovative automata, clocks, and mechanical inventions, making it a foundational work in the history of engineering.
  • 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: Philo Mechanicus
Triple: [Philo of Byzantium, alternateName, Philo Mechanicus]
Generated description
Philo Mechanicus was an ancient Greek engineer and writer from Byzantium known for his influential treatises on mechanics, artillery, and military technology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philo Mechanicus
Target entity description: Philo Mechanicus was an ancient Greek engineer and writer from Byzantium known for his influential treatises on mechanics, artillery, and military technology.
  • A. Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher
    Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher is a philosophical dialogue by George Berkeley that critiques freethinkers and defends Christian religion and immaterialist philosophy.
  • B. The Allegory of the Mechanical Arts
    The Allegory of the Mechanical Arts is a painting by Dutch Mannerist artist Abraham Bloemaert that personifies and celebrates various crafts and trades through symbolic figures and objects.
  • C. Somnium Scipionis
    Somnium Scipionis is a philosophical dream-vision from Cicero’s De re publica that explores the soul’s immortality, cosmic order, and the rewards of virtuous public service.
  • D. La Scienza Nuova
    La Scienza Nuova is Giambattista Vico’s seminal philosophical treatise that proposes a cyclical theory of history and lays the foundations for modern philosophy of history and cultural anthropology.
  • E. The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices
    The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices is a 13th-century illustrated manuscript that systematically documents Al-Jazari’s innovative automata, clocks, and mechanical inventions, making it a foundational work in the history of engineering.
  • 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_69c00877b6d4819096b0e163728b73a3 completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c05708fda48190ad3d1860969ebb6a completed March 22, 2026, 8:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c113ac051c8190b2b8a4985948d8e0 completed March 23, 2026, 10:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c114ad4fb48190a47a77affa0c4940 completed March 23, 2026, 10:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c1151f66e48190975e5c9e9b98895a completed March 23, 2026, 10:25 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:09 p.m.