Triple

T9823118
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject George of Pisidia E238583 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object De vanitate vitae
De vanitate vitae is a didactic Christian poem by George of Pisidia that reflects on the transience and futility of earthly life in light of spiritual values.
E822776 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: De vanitate vitae | Statement: [George of Pisidia, notableWork, De vanitate vitae]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: De vanitate vitae
Context triple: [George of Pisidia, notableWork, De vanitate vitae]
  • A. De Brevitate Vitae
    De Brevitate Vitae is a philosophical essay by Seneca the Younger that reflects on the nature of time and argues that life is long enough if used wisely.
  • B. On the Shortness of Life
    On the Shortness of Life is a philosophical essay by the Roman Stoic Seneca that argues our lives feel short not by nature but because we waste much of the time available to us.
  • C. De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium
    De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium is a 16th-century work by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa that offers a skeptical critique of the value and reliability of contemporary sciences and arts.
  • D. De Vita Beata
    De Vita Beata is a philosophical treatise by Seneca the Younger that explores the nature of true happiness and how it can be attained through Stoic virtue.
  • E. De voluptate
    De voluptate is a 15th-century philosophical dialogue by Lorenzo Valla that critiques medieval scholasticism and defends an Epicurean-influenced view of pleasure as central to the good life.
  • 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: De vanitate vitae
Triple: [George of Pisidia, notableWork, De vanitate vitae]
Generated description
De vanitate vitae is a didactic Christian poem by George of Pisidia that reflects on the transience and futility of earthly life in light of spiritual values.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: De vanitate vitae
Target entity description: De vanitate vitae is a didactic Christian poem by George of Pisidia that reflects on the transience and futility of earthly life in light of spiritual values.
  • A. De Brevitate Vitae
    De Brevitate Vitae is a philosophical essay by Seneca the Younger that reflects on the nature of time and argues that life is long enough if used wisely.
  • B. On the Shortness of Life
    On the Shortness of Life is a philosophical essay by the Roman Stoic Seneca that argues our lives feel short not by nature but because we waste much of the time available to us.
  • C. De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium
    De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium is a 16th-century work by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa that offers a skeptical critique of the value and reliability of contemporary sciences and arts.
  • D. De Vita Beata
    De Vita Beata is a philosophical treatise by Seneca the Younger that explores the nature of true happiness and how it can be attained through Stoic virtue.
  • E. De voluptate
    De voluptate is a 15th-century philosophical dialogue by Lorenzo Valla that critiques medieval scholasticism and defends an Epicurean-influenced view of pleasure as central to the good life.
  • 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_69ca84e0dd1881909800765d1e21f735 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb315ddf48190bd90f7835f409bb6 completed April 2, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1cc7ce1908190a5131ef238541f0d completed April 5, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1cd0376708190bc68b5f74f476339 completed April 5, 2026, 2:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1cd70aa5481908b67afef279c38af completed April 5, 2026, 2:48 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:31 p.m.