Triple

T701876
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject El Jem Amphitheatre E14015 entity
Predicate constructionStartReignOf P7942 FINISHED
Object Emperor Gordian III
Emperor Gordian III was a young 3rd-century Roman emperor whose brief reign (238–244 AD) was marked by campaigns against the Sassanid Empire and relative internal stability following the Year of the Six Emperors.
E90821 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Emperor Gordian III | Statement: [El Jem Amphitheatre, constructionStartReignOf, Emperor Gordian III]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Emperor Gordian III
Context triple: [El Jem Amphitheatre, constructionStartReignOf, Emperor Gordian III]
  • A. Carinus
    Carinus was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd century who ruled during the Crisis of the Third Century and was ultimately defeated by Diocletian.
  • B. Pertinax
    Pertinax was a Roman military commander and short-reigning emperor in 193 AD, known for his role in frontier wars and his brief, reform-minded rule following the assassination of Commodus.
  • C. Commodus
    Commodus was a Roman emperor (reigned 180–192 AD) known for his erratic rule, self-indulgence, and association with the decline of the Roman Empire.
  • D. Maxentius
    Maxentius was a Roman emperor who ruled Italy and Africa in the early 4th century and was famously defeated by Constantine the Great at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.
  • E. Valentinian III
    Valentinian III was a 5th-century Western Roman emperor whose long but troubled reign was marked by internal power struggles and the empire’s accelerating decline in the West.
  • 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: Emperor Gordian III
Triple: [El Jem Amphitheatre, constructionStartReignOf, Emperor Gordian III]
Generated description
Emperor Gordian III was a young 3rd-century Roman emperor whose brief reign (238–244 AD) was marked by campaigns against the Sassanid Empire and relative internal stability following the Year of the Six Emperors.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Emperor Gordian III
Target entity description: Emperor Gordian III was a young 3rd-century Roman emperor whose brief reign (238–244 AD) was marked by campaigns against the Sassanid Empire and relative internal stability following the Year of the Six Emperors.
  • A. Carinus
    Carinus was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd century who ruled during the Crisis of the Third Century and was ultimately defeated by Diocletian.
  • B. Pertinax
    Pertinax was a Roman military commander and short-reigning emperor in 193 AD, known for his role in frontier wars and his brief, reform-minded rule following the assassination of Commodus.
  • C. Commodus
    Commodus was a Roman emperor (reigned 180–192 AD) known for his erratic rule, self-indulgence, and association with the decline of the Roman Empire.
  • D. Maxentius
    Maxentius was a Roman emperor who ruled Italy and Africa in the early 4th century and was famously defeated by Constantine the Great at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.
  • E. Valentinian III
    Valentinian III was a 5th-century Western Roman emperor whose long but troubled reign was marked by internal power struggles and the empire’s accelerating decline in the West.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: constructionStartReignOf
Context triple: [El Jem Amphitheatre, constructionStartReignOf, Emperor Gordian III]
  • A. reignStart
    Indicates the date or point in time when an entity’s period of ruling or governing authority begins.
  • B. builtDuringReignOf chosen
    Indicates that something was constructed while a particular ruler or authority was in power.
  • C. governingEmpireAtConstruction
    Indicates the empire that held governing authority over a place or structure at the time it was constructed.
  • D. reignAs
    Indicates that an entity holds and exercises ruling authority or sovereignty over a domain or people for a period of time.
  • E. startConstruction
    Indicates that an entity initiates the process of building or constructing another entity or structure.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69a493494ec48190ae6751683625a9ba completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a544e3608190ac315c7aa9f88e7e completed March 1, 2026, 8:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a6666acf1081908325ae2ba74b6bae completed March 3, 2026, 4:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a6674809a48190b30a03a6366bdebd completed March 3, 2026, 4:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a667cf4f9881908d63b5e38088c0f9 completed March 3, 2026, 4:47 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a4a4ec8c748190b198492a0eea4445 completed March 1, 2026, 8:43 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.