Triple

T737468
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject archaeological excavations at Herculaneum E14965 entity
Predicate location P40 FINISHED
Object Herculaneum
Herculaneum is an ancient Roman town in Italy famously buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD and now preserved as a major archaeological site.
E89360 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: Herculaneum | Statement: [archaeological excavations at Herculaneum, location, Herculaneum]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herculaneum
Context triple: [archaeological excavations at Herculaneum, location, Herculaneum]
  • A. Pompeii
    Pompeii was an ancient Roman city in southern Italy, famously preserved in volcanic ash after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, offering an unparalleled archaeological snapshot of Roman urban life.
  • B. Băile Herculane
    Băile Herculane is a historic spa town in southwestern Romania, renowned since Roman times for its thermal mineral springs and therapeutic baths.
  • C. Baiae
    Baiae was an ancient Roman resort town on the Bay of Naples famed for its luxurious villas, thermal baths, and popularity among the Roman elite.
  • D. Metapontum
    Metapontum was an important ancient Greek city in southern Italy, known for its fertile land, temples, and role within the colonies of Magna Graecia.
  • E. Ostia
    Ostia was the principal harbor city of ancient Rome, serving as a major commercial and military port at the mouth of the Tiber River.
  • 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: Herculaneum
Triple: [archaeological excavations at Herculaneum, location, Herculaneum]
Generated description
Herculaneum is an ancient Roman town in Italy famously buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD and now preserved as a major archaeological site.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herculaneum
Target entity description: Herculaneum is an ancient Roman town in Italy famously buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD and now preserved as a major archaeological site.
  • A. Pompeii
    Pompeii was an ancient Roman city in southern Italy, famously preserved in volcanic ash after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, offering an unparalleled archaeological snapshot of Roman urban life.
  • B. Băile Herculane
    Băile Herculane is a historic spa town in southwestern Romania, renowned since Roman times for its thermal mineral springs and therapeutic baths.
  • C. Baiae
    Baiae was an ancient Roman resort town on the Bay of Naples famed for its luxurious villas, thermal baths, and popularity among the Roman elite.
  • D. Metapontum
    Metapontum was an important ancient Greek city in southern Italy, known for its fertile land, temples, and role within the colonies of Magna Graecia.
  • E. Ostia
    Ostia was the principal harbor city of ancient Rome, serving as a major commercial and military port at the mouth of the Tiber River.
  • 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_69a4934d9930819099eed80096b0597d completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a5effc108190aea8fbe86641ba54 completed March 1, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a654e40b9c8190ab4314e63826d00a completed March 3, 2026, 3:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a65566f6848190a50c39d1fad2b42b completed March 3, 2026, 3:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a655f9c0f081909d0ede1c1b515f25 completed March 3, 2026, 3:31 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.