Triple

T6604503
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pataliputra E149076 entity
Predicate mentionedBy P831 FINISHED
Object Megasthenes
Megasthenes was an ancient Greek historian and diplomat best known for his work "Indica," which provides one of the earliest detailed accounts of India and its society.
E601747 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: Megasthenes | Statement: [Pataliputra, mentionedBy, Megasthenes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Megasthenes
Context triple: [Pataliputra, mentionedBy, Megasthenes]
  • A. Ctesias of Cnidus
    Ctesias of Cnidus was a 5th-century BCE Greek physician and historian at the Persian court whose works, especially his Persica and Indica, provided influential but often fanciful accounts of the Achaemenid Empire and India.
  • B. Arrian of Nicomedia
    Arrian of Nicomedia was a 2nd-century Greek historian and philosopher, best known for recording the teachings of Epictetus and for his influential history of Alexander the Great.
  • C. Strabo
    Strabo was an ancient Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian best known for his 17-volume work "Geographica," which described the peoples and places of the known world in his time.
  • D. Theopompus of Chios
    Theopompus of Chios was a 4th-century BC Greek historian and rhetorician best known for his extensive historical works, including the "Hellenica" and the "Philippica."
  • E. Apollodorus of Damascus
    Apollodorus of Damascus was a prominent 2nd-century Roman architect and engineer known for designing major imperial projects under Emperor Trajan, including monumental buildings and infrastructure across the Roman Empire.
  • 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: Megasthenes
Triple: [Pataliputra, mentionedBy, Megasthenes]
Generated description
Megasthenes was an ancient Greek historian and diplomat best known for his work "Indica," which provides one of the earliest detailed accounts of India and its society.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Megasthenes
Target entity description: Megasthenes was an ancient Greek historian and diplomat best known for his work "Indica," which provides one of the earliest detailed accounts of India and its society.
  • A. Ctesias of Cnidus
    Ctesias of Cnidus was a 5th-century BCE Greek physician and historian at the Persian court whose works, especially his Persica and Indica, provided influential but often fanciful accounts of the Achaemenid Empire and India.
  • B. Arrian of Nicomedia
    Arrian of Nicomedia was a 2nd-century Greek historian and philosopher, best known for recording the teachings of Epictetus and for his influential history of Alexander the Great.
  • C. Strabo
    Strabo was an ancient Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian best known for his 17-volume work "Geographica," which described the peoples and places of the known world in his time.
  • D. Theopompus of Chios
    Theopompus of Chios was a 4th-century BC Greek historian and rhetorician best known for his extensive historical works, including the "Hellenica" and the "Philippica."
  • E. Apollodorus of Damascus
    Apollodorus of Damascus was a prominent 2nd-century Roman architect and engineer known for designing major imperial projects under Emperor Trajan, including monumental buildings and infrastructure across the Roman Empire.
  • 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_69c687eaa7508190bb58ce2aa02039b3 completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6af13151c81909b68fa6c77e1c482 completed March 27, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6cbc8f1308190a4afcf10a5a7105e completed March 27, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6cd09753c81909df166156ffbf82a completed March 27, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6ce9ba47c819091496c87117e7a03 completed March 27, 2026, 6:38 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:56 p.m.