Triple

T836203
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Diocletianic Persecution E18073 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object Decian persecution
The Decian persecution was a mid-3rd-century Roman imperial campaign under Emperor Decius that sought to enforce universal pagan sacrifice and led to widespread, systematic persecution of Christians.
E98640 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: Decian persecution | Statement: [Diocletianic Persecution, precededBy, Decian persecution]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Decian persecution
Context triple: [Diocletianic Persecution, precededBy, Decian persecution]
  • A. Diocletianic Persecution
    The Diocletianic Persecution was the Roman Empire’s last and most severe campaign of repression against Christians, marked by widespread martyrdom, destruction of churches, and attempts to eradicate Christian worship in the early 4th century.
  • B. Crisis of the Third Century
    The Crisis of the Third Century was a period of severe political instability, military upheaval, economic collapse, and external invasion that nearly caused the disintegration of the Roman Empire between roughly 235 and 284 CE.
  • C. Constantinian civil war
    The Constantinian civil war was a series of early 4th-century conflicts within the Roman Empire that culminated in Constantine the Great’s victory over rival emperors and the consolidation of his sole rule.
  • D. Year of the Four Emperors
    The Year of the Four Emperors was a tumultuous period of civil war in 69 AD during which four different men successively claimed the Roman imperial throne before stability was restored under Vespasian.
  • E. Roman–Parthian War of 161–166
    The Roman–Parthian War of 161–166 was a major conflict between the Roman Empire and the Parthian Empire during the reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, marked by Roman campaigns in Armenia and Mesopotamia that temporarily expanded Roman influence in the East.
  • 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: Decian persecution
Triple: [Diocletianic Persecution, precededBy, Decian persecution]
Generated description
The Decian persecution was a mid-3rd-century Roman imperial campaign under Emperor Decius that sought to enforce universal pagan sacrifice and led to widespread, systematic persecution of Christians.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Decian persecution
Target entity description: The Decian persecution was a mid-3rd-century Roman imperial campaign under Emperor Decius that sought to enforce universal pagan sacrifice and led to widespread, systematic persecution of Christians.
  • A. Diocletianic Persecution
    The Diocletianic Persecution was the Roman Empire’s last and most severe campaign of repression against Christians, marked by widespread martyrdom, destruction of churches, and attempts to eradicate Christian worship in the early 4th century.
  • B. Crisis of the Third Century
    The Crisis of the Third Century was a period of severe political instability, military upheaval, economic collapse, and external invasion that nearly caused the disintegration of the Roman Empire between roughly 235 and 284 CE.
  • C. Constantinian civil war
    The Constantinian civil war was a series of early 4th-century conflicts within the Roman Empire that culminated in Constantine the Great’s victory over rival emperors and the consolidation of his sole rule.
  • D. Marian persecutions
    The Marian persecutions were a series of executions of English Protestants under the Catholic reign of Queen Mary I in the 1550s, intended to restore Roman Catholicism in England.
  • E. Year of the Four Emperors
    The Year of the Four Emperors was a tumultuous period of civil war in 69 AD during which four different men successively claimed the Roman imperial throne before stability was restored under Vespasian.
  • 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_69a49389f44881909a608fb27d89f247 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4abce08348190b716e3ce5a638f99 completed March 1, 2026, 9:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a76d9cddb48190b0d297c2cc9f3b3c completed March 3, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a78e21f4ec81909bd9904554eb3f3f completed March 4, 2026, 1:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a78ea8b5e481908aac07fe90017986 completed March 4, 2026, 1:45 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.