Triple

T6054507
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Philo of Byzantium E134874 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Hero of Alexandria
Hero of Alexandria was an ancient Greek engineer and mathematician known for his pioneering work in mechanics, pneumatics, and early steam-powered devices.
E568160 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: Hero of Alexandria | Statement: [Philo of Byzantium, influenced, Hero of Alexandria]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hero of Alexandria
Context triple: [Philo of Byzantium, influenced, Hero of Alexandria]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Alexander of Alexandria
    Alexander of Alexandria was a 4th-century Patriarch of Alexandria best known for his staunch defense of Nicene orthodoxy and his early opposition to the teachings of Arius.
  • D. Archimedes
    Archimedes was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, and engineer renowned for foundational contributions to geometry, hydrostatics, and mechanics that shaped later scientific thought.
  • E. Heraclas of Alexandria
    Heraclas of Alexandria was a 3rd-century Christian scholar and bishop of Alexandria, known for succeeding Origen as head of the Catechetical School and later serving as patriarch of the Alexandrian church.
  • 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: Hero of Alexandria
Triple: [Philo of Byzantium, influenced, Hero of Alexandria]
Generated description
Hero of Alexandria was an ancient Greek engineer and mathematician known for his pioneering work in mechanics, pneumatics, and early steam-powered devices.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hero of Alexandria
Target entity description: Hero of Alexandria was an ancient Greek engineer and mathematician known for his pioneering work in mechanics, pneumatics, and early steam-powered devices.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Alexander of Alexandria
    Alexander of Alexandria was a 4th-century Patriarch of Alexandria best known for his staunch defense of Nicene orthodoxy and his early opposition to the teachings of Arius.
  • D. Archimedes
    Archimedes was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, and engineer renowned for foundational contributions to geometry, hydrostatics, and mechanics that shaped later scientific thought.
  • E. Heraclas of Alexandria
    Heraclas of Alexandria was a 3rd-century Christian scholar and bishop of Alexandria, known for succeeding Origen as head of the Catechetical School and later serving as patriarch of the Alexandrian church.
  • 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_69c1251d9bbc8190b9544e93dc268787 completed March 23, 2026, 11:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c1267679e0819085dd655ea85cecbd completed March 23, 2026, 11:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c127061d948190b1e27fae3f8b4604 completed March 23, 2026, 11:41 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:09 p.m.