Triple

T12104218
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Canopic branch of the Nile E288261 entity
Predicate nearbySettlement P350 FINISHED
Object Thonis
Thonis was an ancient Egyptian port city, later known as Thonis-Heracleion, that served as a major gateway between Egypt and the Mediterranean before sinking beneath the sea.
E966131 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: Thonis | Statement: [Canopic branch of the Nile, nearbySettlement, Thonis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thonis
Context triple: [Canopic branch of the Nile, nearbySettlement, Thonis]
  • A. Memnon of Aethiopia
    Memnon of Aethiopia is a legendary Ethiopian king and warrior in Greek mythology who fought on the side of Troy during the Trojan War and was slain by Achilles.
  • B. Hekademos
    Hekademos (or Hecademus) was an Athenian hero or local figure whose grove outside Athens became the site of Plato’s Academy, giving the school its name.
  • C. Amyrtaeus
    Amyrtaeus was a 4th-century BCE Egyptian pharaoh who led a successful revolt against Persian rule and briefly restored native independence during Egypt’s Late Period.
  • D. Mastallone
    Mastallone is a mountain stream in northern Italy that flows through the Piedmont region before joining the Sesia River.
  • E. Psammites
    Psammites is an ancient mathematical treatise by Archimedes in which he develops a system for expressing extremely large numbers to estimate the quantity of sand grains that could fit in the universe.
  • 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: Thonis
Triple: [Canopic branch of the Nile, nearbySettlement, Thonis]
Generated description
Thonis was an ancient Egyptian port city, later known as Thonis-Heracleion, that served as a major gateway between Egypt and the Mediterranean before sinking beneath the sea.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thonis
Target entity description: Thonis was an ancient Egyptian port city, later known as Thonis-Heracleion, that served as a major gateway between Egypt and the Mediterranean before sinking beneath the sea.
  • A. Memnon of Aethiopia
    Memnon of Aethiopia is a legendary Ethiopian king and warrior in Greek mythology who fought on the side of Troy during the Trojan War and was slain by Achilles.
  • B. Hekademos
    Hekademos (or Hecademus) was an Athenian hero or local figure whose grove outside Athens became the site of Plato’s Academy, giving the school its name.
  • C. Amyrtaeus
    Amyrtaeus was a 4th-century BCE Egyptian pharaoh who led a successful revolt against Persian rule and briefly restored native independence during Egypt’s Late Period.
  • D. Mastallone
    Mastallone is a mountain stream in northern Italy that flows through the Piedmont region before joining the Sesia River.
  • E. Psammites
    Psammites is an ancient mathematical treatise by Archimedes in which he develops a system for expressing extremely large numbers to estimate the quantity of sand grains that could fit in the universe.
  • 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_69d6ab4a5c448190a110d1273314b21a completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d915568b9881909fc9edacefb86409 completed April 10, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f5f677039481908f14fa12b9b86910 completed May 2, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f600b6769481909d0308c8f77b2ef3 completed May 2, 2026, 1:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f601ef0a9c8190ac922562a8856def completed May 2, 2026, 1:53 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:48 p.m.