Triple

T8916686
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ur III period E212310 entity
Predicate hasCenter P35 FINISHED
Object city of Umma
The city of Umma was an important Sumerian urban center in southern Mesopotamia, known for its role in regional conflicts and administration during the early Bronze Age.
E766866 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: city of Umma | Statement: [Ur III period, hasCenter, city of Umma]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: city of Umma
Context triple: [Ur III period, hasCenter, city of Umma]
  • A. Lagash
    Lagash was an important ancient Sumerian city-state in southern Mesopotamia, known for its early political power, distinctive art, and extensive cuneiform records.
  • B. Nippur
    Nippur was an ancient Sumerian city in Mesopotamia that served as a major religious center dedicated to the god Enlil.
  • C. Uruk
    Uruk was one of the earliest major cities in ancient Sumer and Mesopotamia, renowned as a political, religious, and cultural center often associated with the legendary king Gilgamesh.
  • D. Larsa
    Larsa was an important ancient Sumerian city-state in southern Mesopotamia, known for its political power and temple-centered religious life during the early second millennium BCE.
  • E. Ebla
    Ebla was an important ancient city-state and archaeological site in modern-day northern Syria, known for its extensive cuneiform tablet archives that shed light on early Semitic languages and Bronze Age politics.
  • 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: city of Umma
Triple: [Ur III period, hasCenter, city of Umma]
Generated description
The city of Umma was an important Sumerian urban center in southern Mesopotamia, known for its role in regional conflicts and administration during the early Bronze Age.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: city of Umma
Target entity description: The city of Umma was an important Sumerian urban center in southern Mesopotamia, known for its role in regional conflicts and administration during the early Bronze Age.
  • A. Lagash
    Lagash was an important ancient Sumerian city-state in southern Mesopotamia, known for its early political power, distinctive art, and extensive cuneiform records.
  • B. Nippur
    Nippur was an ancient Sumerian city in Mesopotamia that served as a major religious center dedicated to the god Enlil.
  • C. Uruk
    Uruk was one of the earliest major cities in ancient Sumer and Mesopotamia, renowned as a political, religious, and cultural center often associated with the legendary king Gilgamesh.
  • D. Larsa
    Larsa was an important ancient Sumerian city-state in southern Mesopotamia, known for its political power and temple-centered religious life during the early second millennium BCE.
  • E. Ebla
    Ebla was an important ancient city-state and archaeological site in modern-day northern Syria, known for its extensive cuneiform tablet archives that shed light on early Semitic languages and Bronze Age politics.
  • 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_69ca8393b1808190bd4336787ffa2c40 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc6610cd48819090a184c5f9465626 completed April 1, 2026, 12:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfba4567a88190855b964bc6e3ac6f completed April 3, 2026, 1:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfbb0db6848190a375196a021d1bb9 completed April 3, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfbf7f551c819089830d16fe55599e completed April 3, 2026, 1:24 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:56 p.m.