Triple

T8924865
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Third Mithridatic War E212514 entity
Predicate notableBattle P259 FINISHED
Object Siege of Cyzicus
The Siege of Cyzicus was a pivotal 73–72 BC engagement in which Roman forces under Lucullus trapped and devastated King Mithridates VI’s army in Asia Minor, turning the tide of the Third Mithridatic War.
E767696 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 Cyzicus | Statement: [Third Mithridatic War, notableBattle, Siege of Cyzicus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege of Cyzicus
Context triple: [Third Mithridatic War, notableBattle, Siege of Cyzicus]
  • A. Siege of Nicomedia
    The Siege of Nicomedia was an early 14th-century Ottoman campaign that captured the important Byzantine city of Nicomedia, marking a key step in the Ottoman expansion into northwestern Anatolia.
  • B. Siege of Halicarnassus
    The Siege of Halicarnassus was a key early battle in Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Persian Empire, in which he captured the heavily fortified Carian capital on the coast of Asia Minor.
  • C. Battle of Cyzicus
    The Battle of Cyzicus was a major Athenian naval victory over Sparta during the Peloponnesian War that temporarily restored Athenian dominance in the Aegean.
  • D. Siege of Nicaea
    The Siege of Nicaea was a pivotal 1097 military campaign in the First Crusade in which Crusader and Byzantine forces captured the Seljuk-held city of Nicaea, opening the way into Anatolia.
  • E. Siege of Ctesiphon
    The Siege of Ctesiphon was a pivotal early 7th-century battle in which Rashidun forces captured the Sasanian capital, hastening the collapse of the Persian Empire and consolidating Muslim control over Mesopotamia.
  • 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 Cyzicus
Triple: [Third Mithridatic War, notableBattle, Siege of Cyzicus]
Generated description
The Siege of Cyzicus was a pivotal 73–72 BC engagement in which Roman forces under Lucullus trapped and devastated King Mithridates VI’s army in Asia Minor, turning the tide of the Third Mithridatic War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege of Cyzicus
Target entity description: The Siege of Cyzicus was a pivotal 73–72 BC engagement in which Roman forces under Lucullus trapped and devastated King Mithridates VI’s army in Asia Minor, turning the tide of the Third Mithridatic War.
  • A. Siege of Nicomedia
    The Siege of Nicomedia was an early 14th-century Ottoman campaign that captured the important Byzantine city of Nicomedia, marking a key step in the Ottoman expansion into northwestern Anatolia.
  • B. Siege of Halicarnassus
    The Siege of Halicarnassus was a key early battle in Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Persian Empire, in which he captured the heavily fortified Carian capital on the coast of Asia Minor.
  • C. Battle of Cyzicus
    The Battle of Cyzicus was a major Athenian naval victory over Sparta during the Peloponnesian War that temporarily restored Athenian dominance in the Aegean.
  • D. Siege of Nicaea
    The Siege of Nicaea was a pivotal 1097 military campaign in the First Crusade in which Crusader and Byzantine forces captured the Seljuk-held city of Nicaea, opening the way into Anatolia.
  • E. Siege of Ctesiphon
    The Siege of Ctesiphon was a pivotal early 7th-century battle in which Rashidun forces captured the Sasanian capital, hastening the collapse of the Persian Empire and consolidating Muslim control over Mesopotamia.
  • 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_69ca839481d48190b42b037e0d0f636c completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc66547de881909ea9bfd104b32893 completed April 1, 2026, 12:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfc1d31f84819098c34c2589949c6e completed April 3, 2026, 1:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfc3074b90819099048dcec7e201ad completed April 3, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfc350afc08190a17c61041d6d8193 completed April 3, 2026, 1:40 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:57 p.m.