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.
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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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.