Triple

T19242279
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nicholas of Damascus E481161 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Life of Augustus
Life of Augustus is an ancient biographical work about the Roman emperor Augustus, traditionally attributed to the historian and philosopher Nicholas of Damascus.
E1365431 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: Life of Augustus | Statement: [Nicholas of Damascus, notableWork, Life of Augustus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life of Augustus
Context triple: [Nicholas of Damascus, notableWork, Life of Augustus]
  • A. Res Gestae Divi Augusti
    Res Gestae Divi Augusti is an autobiographical inscription by the first Roman emperor, Augustus, detailing his political achievements, military campaigns, and benefactions to the Roman state.
  • B. Life of Otho
    Life of Otho is one of Plutarch’s biographical essays in the Parallel Lives, recounting the character and brief reign of the Roman emperor Otho.
  • C. De vita Caesarum
    De vita Caesarum is an early 2nd-century biographical work by Suetonius that chronicles the lives and characters of the first twelve Roman emperors, from Julius Caesar to Domitian.
  • D. Res Gestae
    Res Gestae is a late 4th-century Latin historical work by Ammianus Marcellinus that chronicles the Roman Empire from the reign of Nerva to the death of Valens, and is a key source for the history of Late Antiquity.
  • E. Historia Augusta
    The Historia Augusta is a late Roman collection of imperial biographies, notable for its mix of historical fact and fictionalized material about emperors and usurpers.
  • 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: Life of Augustus
Triple: [Nicholas of Damascus, notableWork, Life of Augustus]
Generated description
Life of Augustus is an ancient biographical work about the Roman emperor Augustus, traditionally attributed to the historian and philosopher Nicholas of Damascus.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life of Augustus
Target entity description: Life of Augustus is an ancient biographical work about the Roman emperor Augustus, traditionally attributed to the historian and philosopher Nicholas of Damascus.
  • A. Res Gestae Divi Augusti
    Res Gestae Divi Augusti is an autobiographical inscription by the first Roman emperor, Augustus, detailing his political achievements, military campaigns, and benefactions to the Roman state.
  • B. Life of Otho
    Life of Otho is one of Plutarch’s biographical essays in the Parallel Lives, recounting the character and brief reign of the Roman emperor Otho.
  • C. De vita Caesarum
    De vita Caesarum is an early 2nd-century biographical work by Suetonius that chronicles the lives and characters of the first twelve Roman emperors, from Julius Caesar to Domitian.
  • D. Res Gestae
    Res Gestae is a late 4th-century Latin historical work by Ammianus Marcellinus that chronicles the Roman Empire from the reign of Nerva to the death of Valens, and is a key source for the history of Late Antiquity.
  • E. Historia Augusta
    The Historia Augusta is a late Roman collection of imperial biographies, notable for its mix of historical fact and fictionalized material about emperors and usurpers.
  • 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_69d8e8cd9d1081908a181d02b88b59b8 completed April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5faf2353c819094a9a1af3a858715 completed April 20, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0705dc40f08190a9c4d48455343a42 completed May 15, 2026, 11:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a070651263c8190b33b74f3dfd4a515 completed May 15, 2026, 11:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0706ca714c8190baf78f8fa0e5f002 completed May 15, 2026, 11:43 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:27 p.m.