Triple

T8473563
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Amelius Gentilianus E200335 entity
Predicate sourceMention P831 FINISHED
Object Porphyry's Life of Plotinus
Porphyry's Life of Plotinus is a biographical work by the Neoplatonist philosopher Porphyry that provides the principal ancient account of the life, character, and teachings of his teacher Plotinus.
E736691 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: Porphyry's Life of Plotinus | Statement: [Amelius Gentilianus, sourceMention, Porphyry's Life of Plotinus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Porphyry's Life of Plotinus
Context triple: [Amelius Gentilianus, sourceMention, Porphyry's Life of Plotinus]
  • A. Philostratus’ Imagines
    Philostratus’ *Imagines* is a collection of ekphrastic descriptions of paintings, blending art criticism and imaginative storytelling in the form of rhetorical essays from the Second Sophistic period.
  • B. Proclus' Chrestomathy
    Proclus' Chrestomathy is a lost ancient Greek work, known through later summaries, that provided prose epitomes of the early epic poems of the Trojan cycle and other pre-Homeric epics.
  • C. Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
    Diogenes Laertius’ *Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers* is an early third-century biographical and doxographical compendium that preserves many of the principal anecdotes, teachings, and fragments of ancient Greek philosophers.
  • D. Theologia Platonica
    Theologia Platonica is Marsilio Ficino’s major philosophical treatise that systematically presents a Christianized interpretation of Plato’s metaphysics and the immortality of the soul, foundational to Renaissance Platonism.
  • E. Physiologia Stoicorum
    Physiologia Stoicorum is a late 16th-century scholarly treatise by Justus Lipsius that systematically reconstructs and interprets ancient Stoic philosophy, especially its physics and theology, for early modern readers.
  • 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: Porphyry's Life of Plotinus
Triple: [Amelius Gentilianus, sourceMention, Porphyry's Life of Plotinus]
Generated description
Porphyry's Life of Plotinus is a biographical work by the Neoplatonist philosopher Porphyry that provides the principal ancient account of the life, character, and teachings of his teacher Plotinus.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Porphyry's Life of Plotinus
Target entity description: Porphyry's Life of Plotinus is a biographical work by the Neoplatonist philosopher Porphyry that provides the principal ancient account of the life, character, and teachings of his teacher Plotinus.
  • A. Philostratus’ Imagines
    Philostratus’ *Imagines* is a collection of ekphrastic descriptions of paintings, blending art criticism and imaginative storytelling in the form of rhetorical essays from the Second Sophistic period.
  • B. Proclus' Chrestomathy
    Proclus' Chrestomathy is a lost ancient Greek work, known through later summaries, that provided prose epitomes of the early epic poems of the Trojan cycle and other pre-Homeric epics.
  • C. Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
    Diogenes Laertius’ *Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers* is an early third-century biographical and doxographical compendium that preserves many of the principal anecdotes, teachings, and fragments of ancient Greek philosophers.
  • D. Theologia Platonica
    Theologia Platonica is Marsilio Ficino’s major philosophical treatise that systematically presents a Christianized interpretation of Plato’s metaphysics and the immortality of the soul, foundational to Renaissance Platonism.
  • E. Physiologia Stoicorum
    Physiologia Stoicorum is a late 16th-century scholarly treatise by Justus Lipsius that systematically reconstructs and interprets ancient Stoic philosophy, especially its physics and theology, for early modern readers.
  • 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_69ca831a4f348190bfdd09250e86ae35 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe4f7328481909ad19bcf8d182022 completed March 31, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce3a057b6c8190ad592110ca393ee2 completed April 2, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce3b1e188c8190ad894478141f6501 completed April 2, 2026, 9:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce3bfd00948190b3956be3f8c5d547 completed April 2, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:11 p.m.