Triple

T18118865
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lod Mosaic E433679 entity
Predicate excavationDirector P68050 FINISHED
Object Shmuel Talis
Shmuel Talis is an archaeologist best known for directing the excavation of the renowned Lod Mosaic in Israel.
E1309554 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: Shmuel Talis | Statement: [Lod Mosaic, excavationDirector, Shmuel Talis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shmuel Talis
Context triple: [Lod Mosaic, excavationDirector, Shmuel Talis]
  • A. Shmuel Mikunis
    Shmuel Mikunis was an Israeli communist politician and long-time leader of the Communist Party of Israel.
  • B. Shmuel
    Shmuel is the Hebrew form of the biblical name Samuel, commonly used in Jewish religious and cultural contexts.
  • C. Ehud Shabtai
    Ehud Shabtai is an Israeli software engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and chief architect of the GPS-based navigation app Waze.
  • D. Shmuel Ashkenasi
    Shmuel Ashkenasi is an Israeli-American violinist renowned as a founding member of the Vermeer Quartet and as a distinguished soloist and pedagogue.
  • E. Shmuel Katz
    Shmuel Katz was an Israeli writer, historian, and right-wing politician who was a prominent leader in the Herut movement and an advocate of Revisionist Zionism.
  • 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: Shmuel Talis
Triple: [Lod Mosaic, excavationDirector, Shmuel Talis]
Generated description
Shmuel Talis is an archaeologist best known for directing the excavation of the renowned Lod Mosaic in Israel.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shmuel Talis
Target entity description: Shmuel Talis is an archaeologist best known for directing the excavation of the renowned Lod Mosaic in Israel.
  • A. Shmuel Mikunis
    Shmuel Mikunis was an Israeli communist politician and long-time leader of the Communist Party of Israel.
  • B. Shmuel
    Shmuel is the Hebrew form of the biblical name Samuel, commonly used in Jewish religious and cultural contexts.
  • C. Ehud Shabtai
    Ehud Shabtai is an Israeli software engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and chief architect of the GPS-based navigation app Waze.
  • D. Shmuel Ashkenasi
    Shmuel Ashkenasi is an Israeli-American violinist renowned as a founding member of the Vermeer Quartet and as a distinguished soloist and pedagogue.
  • E. Shmuel Katz
    Shmuel Katz was an Israeli writer, historian, and right-wing politician who was a prominent leader in the Herut movement and an advocate of Revisionist Zionism.
  • 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_69d8b909e8cc81908df4cc2b8ea6d11f completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4ddd843e88190abbc173dbc9b450a completed April 19, 2026, 1:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a038fadf97c8190b3c62e9ca89dc0cb completed May 12, 2026, 8:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0391a92bd88190ba2bc79471a3ab55 completed May 12, 2026, 8:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03922a2a148190917adab265da0e55 completed May 12, 2026, 8:48 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:28 a.m.