Triple

T18758450
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Samosata E458708 entity
Predicate siege P11070 FINISHED
Object Siege of Samosata (38 BCE)
The Siege of Samosata (38 BCE) was a Roman military campaign led by Mark Antony against the Commagene stronghold of Samosata during the broader Roman–Parthian conflicts.
E1341009 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 Samosata (38 BCE) | Statement: [Samosata, siege, Siege of Samosata (38 BCE)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege of Samosata (38 BCE)
Context triple: [Samosata, siege, Siege of Samosata (38 BCE)]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Battle of Antioch (145 BCE)
    The Battle of Antioch (145 BCE) was a decisive Hellenistic-era clash near the Seleucid capital that helped determine control of the Seleucid Empire during the later stages of the Syrian Wars.
  • C. Siege of Alexandria (168 BCE)
    The Siege of Alexandria (168 BCE) was a pivotal military confrontation in which the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes besieged the Ptolemaic capital of Egypt, prompting decisive Roman intervention that effectively ended his campaign and reshaped the balance of power in the Hellenistic world.
  • D. Siege of Antioch (272)
    The Siege of Antioch (272) was a key confrontation in the Roman–Palmyrene War in which Emperor Aurelian recaptured the strategically vital city of Antioch from Queen Zenobia’s Palmyrene Empire.
  • E. Siege of Alexandria (47 BCE)
    The Siege of Alexandria (47 BCE) was a key episode in Julius Caesar’s civil war, in which Caesar fought to secure control of Egypt and support Cleopatra VII against rival factions in the city.
  • 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 Samosata (38 BCE)
Triple: [Samosata, siege, Siege of Samosata (38 BCE)]
Generated description
The Siege of Samosata (38 BCE) was a Roman military campaign led by Mark Antony against the Commagene stronghold of Samosata during the broader Roman–Parthian conflicts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege of Samosata (38 BCE)
Target entity description: The Siege of Samosata (38 BCE) was a Roman military campaign led by Mark Antony against the Commagene stronghold of Samosata during the broader Roman–Parthian conflicts.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Battle of Antioch (145 BCE)
    The Battle of Antioch (145 BCE) was a decisive Hellenistic-era clash near the Seleucid capital that helped determine control of the Seleucid Empire during the later stages of the Syrian Wars.
  • C. Siege of Alexandria (168 BCE)
    The Siege of Alexandria (168 BCE) was a pivotal military confrontation in which the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes besieged the Ptolemaic capital of Egypt, prompting decisive Roman intervention that effectively ended his campaign and reshaped the balance of power in the Hellenistic world.
  • D. Siege of Antioch (272)
    The Siege of Antioch (272) was a key confrontation in the Roman–Palmyrene War in which Emperor Aurelian recaptured the strategically vital city of Antioch from Queen Zenobia’s Palmyrene Empire.
  • E. Siege of Alexandria (47 BCE)
    The Siege of Alexandria (47 BCE) was a key episode in Julius Caesar’s civil war, in which Caesar fought to secure control of Egypt and support Cleopatra VII against rival factions in the city.
  • 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_69d8d395dba0819087568404508590cb completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e579f42d0881909bd9ca9c7916516a completed April 20, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a053d3b95e48190bc6628c58082ba15 completed May 14, 2026, 3:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a053e82414c8190a0721e94de73b905 completed May 14, 2026, 3:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a053f4f39d88190b372b8cfa3e94891 completed May 14, 2026, 3:19 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:52 a.m.