Triple

T6054505
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Philo of Byzantium E134874 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object Ctesibius
Ctesibius was an ancient Greek engineer and inventor, often regarded as the father of pneumatics for his pioneering work on devices using air and water pressure.
E563976 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: Ctesibius | Statement: [Philo of Byzantium, influencedBy, Ctesibius]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ctesibius
Context triple: [Philo of Byzantium, influencedBy, Ctesibius]
  • A. Archimedes
    Archimedes was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, and engineer renowned for foundational contributions to geometry, hydrostatics, and mechanics that shaped later scientific thought.
  • B. Diocles
    Diocles is the original name of the Roman emperor Diocletian, who ruled from 284 to 305 CE and initiated major administrative and military reforms of the empire.
  • C. Philo of Byzantium
    Philo of Byzantium was a Hellenistic engineer and writer known for his works on mechanics and for one of the earliest surviving accounts of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
  • D. Archytas
    Archytas was an influential 4th-century BCE Pythagorean philosopher, mathematician, statesman, and early pioneer of mechanics from the Greek city of Tarentum.
  • E. Appian of Alexandria
    Appian of Alexandria was a 2nd-century AD Greek historian and Roman official best known for his multi-volume work "Roman History," which chronicles Rome’s rise and its civil wars.
  • 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: Ctesibius
Triple: [Philo of Byzantium, influencedBy, Ctesibius]
Generated description
Ctesibius was an ancient Greek engineer and inventor, often regarded as the father of pneumatics for his pioneering work on devices using air and water pressure.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ctesibius
Target entity description: Ctesibius was an ancient Greek engineer and inventor, often regarded as the father of pneumatics for his pioneering work on devices using air and water pressure.
  • A. Archimedes
    Archimedes was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, and engineer renowned for foundational contributions to geometry, hydrostatics, and mechanics that shaped later scientific thought.
  • B. Diocles
    Diocles is the original name of the Roman emperor Diocletian, who ruled from 284 to 305 CE and initiated major administrative and military reforms of the empire.
  • C. Philo of Byzantium
    Philo of Byzantium was a Hellenistic engineer and writer known for his works on mechanics and for one of the earliest surviving accounts of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
  • D. Archytas
    Archytas was an influential 4th-century BCE Pythagorean philosopher, mathematician, statesman, and early pioneer of mechanics from the Greek city of Tarentum.
  • E. Appian of Alexandria
    Appian of Alexandria was a 2nd-century AD Greek historian and Roman official best known for his multi-volume work "Roman History," which chronicles Rome’s rise and its civil wars.
  • 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.