Triple

T739111
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject St. Augustine E15203 entity
Predicate birthPlace P1 FINISHED
Object Thagaste
Thagaste was an ancient North African town in Roman Numidia, best known as the birthplace of the Christian theologian and philosopher St. Augustine.
E98606 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: Thagaste | Statement: [St. Augustine, birthPlace, Thagaste]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thagaste
Context triple: [St. Augustine, birthPlace, Thagaste]
  • A. Pelagius
    Pelagius was a 4th–5th century British monk and theologian best known for denying original sin and emphasizing human free will and moral responsibility in opposition to Augustine.
  • B. Sabellius
    Sabellius was a 3rd-century Christian theologian best known for teaching a non-trinitarian, modalistic understanding of God that was later deemed heretical by the early Church.
  • C. Arius
    Arius was a 4th-century Christian presbyter from Alexandria whose teachings about the nature of Christ sparked the Arian controversy and major theological conflicts in early Christianity.
  • D. Evagrius Ponticus
    Evagrius Ponticus was a 4th-century Christian monk and theologian known for his influential teachings on asceticism, prayer, and the analysis of sinful thoughts in early Eastern monasticism.
  • E. Ambrose of Milan
    Ambrose of Milan was a 4th-century bishop, theologian, and influential Church Father known for shaping Western Christian doctrine and famously mentoring and baptizing Augustine of Hippo.
  • 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: Thagaste
Triple: [St. Augustine, birthPlace, Thagaste]
Generated description
Thagaste was an ancient North African town in Roman Numidia, best known as the birthplace of the Christian theologian and philosopher St. Augustine.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thagaste
Target entity description: Thagaste was an ancient North African town in Roman Numidia, best known as the birthplace of the Christian theologian and philosopher St. Augustine.
  • A. Pelagius
    Pelagius was a 4th–5th century British monk and theologian best known for denying original sin and emphasizing human free will and moral responsibility in opposition to Augustine.
  • B. Sabellius
    Sabellius was a 3rd-century Christian theologian best known for teaching a non-trinitarian, modalistic understanding of God that was later deemed heretical by the early Church.
  • C. Arius
    Arius was a 4th-century Christian presbyter from Alexandria whose teachings about the nature of Christ sparked the Arian controversy and major theological conflicts in early Christianity.
  • D. Evagrius Ponticus
    Evagrius Ponticus was a 4th-century Christian monk and theologian known for his influential teachings on asceticism, prayer, and the analysis of sinful thoughts in early Eastern monasticism.
  • E. Ambrose of Milan
    Ambrose of Milan was a 4th-century bishop, theologian, and influential Church Father known for shaping Western Christian doctrine and famously mentoring and baptizing Augustine of Hippo.
  • 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_69a49358aa308190adbc9b5a0a2adcf9 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a5f3b6388190b5ca3fa31416b61a completed March 1, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a76d742ef08190bb9405a1cde84eb1 completed March 3, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a78f03a1a081909087f72e8342cba1 completed March 4, 2026, 1:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a78f632cd88190856e24d5f33d914c completed March 4, 2026, 1:48 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.