Triple

T8385885
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jugurthine War E197817 entity
Predicate notableEvent P259 FINISHED
Object siege of Cirta
The siege of Cirta was a key early confrontation in the Jugurthine War, where Jugurtha’s brutal capture of the city and execution of Italian residents provoked Roman outrage and full-scale intervention in Numidia.
E730035 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: siege of Cirta | Statement: [Jugurthine War, notableEvent, siege of Cirta]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: siege of Cirta
Context triple: [Jugurthine War, notableEvent, siege of Cirta]
  • A. siege of Tunis
    The siege of Tunis was a 1270 military campaign led primarily by King Louis IX of France against the city of Tunis in North Africa, forming the central action of the Eighth Crusade.
  • B. Siege of Nice
    The Siege of Nice was a 1543 military engagement during the Italian Wars in which Franco-Ottoman forces besieged the strategically important city of Nice, then under the control of the Duchy of Savoy allied with the Holy Roman Empire.
  • C. Siege of Ma'arrat al-Numan
    The Siege of Ma'arrat al-Numan was a brutal episode of the First Crusade in 1098–1099, notorious for extreme famine among Crusader forces and reported acts of cannibalism against the Muslim inhabitants.
  • D. Siege of Melilla
    The Siege of Melilla was a late 19th-century military confrontation in which Moroccan forces besieged the Spanish-held North African enclave of Melilla, becoming a key episode in Spain’s colonial campaigns in Morocco.
  • E. War of Tétouan
    The War of Tétouan was a mid-19th-century conflict between Spain and Morocco that led to a decisive Spanish victory and the occupation of the Moroccan city of Tétouan.
  • 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: siege of Cirta
Triple: [Jugurthine War, notableEvent, siege of Cirta]
Generated description
The siege of Cirta was a key early confrontation in the Jugurthine War, where Jugurtha’s brutal capture of the city and execution of Italian residents provoked Roman outrage and full-scale intervention in Numidia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: siege of Cirta
Target entity description: The siege of Cirta was a key early confrontation in the Jugurthine War, where Jugurtha’s brutal capture of the city and execution of Italian residents provoked Roman outrage and full-scale intervention in Numidia.
  • A. siege of Tunis
    The siege of Tunis was a 1270 military campaign led primarily by King Louis IX of France against the city of Tunis in North Africa, forming the central action of the Eighth Crusade.
  • B. Siege of Nice
    The Siege of Nice was a 1543 military engagement during the Italian Wars in which Franco-Ottoman forces besieged the strategically important city of Nice, then under the control of the Duchy of Savoy allied with the Holy Roman Empire.
  • C. Siege of Ma'arrat al-Numan
    The Siege of Ma'arrat al-Numan was a brutal episode of the First Crusade in 1098–1099, notorious for extreme famine among Crusader forces and reported acts of cannibalism against the Muslim inhabitants.
  • D. Siege of Melilla
    The Siege of Melilla was a late 19th-century military confrontation in which Moroccan forces besieged the Spanish-held North African enclave of Melilla, becoming a key episode in Spain’s colonial campaigns in Morocco.
  • E. War of Tétouan
    The War of Tétouan was a mid-19th-century conflict between Spain and Morocco that led to a decisive Spanish victory and the occupation of the Moroccan city of Tétouan.
  • 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_69ca82f749388190bffbea6dfb509016 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb80e1bcdc81909111aa33ee996e0a completed March 31, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cde8312be48190bd5896adc8bb4e95 completed April 2, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cdebfafe84819097f387318897dae1 completed April 2, 2026, 4:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cded2a9c2c8190bdbeddad562ef9e8 completed April 2, 2026, 4:14 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:02 p.m.