Triple

T19780896
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gaius Popillius Laenas E475127 entity
Predicate participatedIn P149 FINISHED
Object Roman intervention in the Sixth Syrian War
The Roman intervention in the Sixth Syrian War was a decisive diplomatic and military assertion of Roman power that forced the Seleucid king Antiochus IV to abandon his invasion of Ptolemaic Egypt in 168 BC.
E1393849 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: Roman intervention in the Sixth Syrian War | Statement: [Gaius Popillius Laenas, participatedIn, Roman intervention in the Sixth Syrian War]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roman intervention in the Sixth Syrian War
Context triple: [Gaius Popillius Laenas, participatedIn, Roman intervention in the Sixth Syrian War]
  • A. Parthian occupation of Syria
    The Parthian occupation of Syria was a temporary conquest of the Roman province by the Parthian Empire during the late 2nd century BC and early 1st century AD, which disrupted Roman control and prompted major military responses.
  • B. Third Mithridatic War
    The Third Mithridatic War was a major conflict from 73–63 BC in which the Roman Republic decisively defeated King Mithridates VI of Pontus, greatly expanding Roman power in the eastern Mediterranean.
  • C. Second Syrian War
    The Second Syrian War was a Hellenistic-era conflict (c. 260–253 BC) between the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Seleucid Empire over control of territories in Coele-Syria and the eastern Mediterranean.
  • D. Roman–Seleucid War
    The Roman–Seleucid War was a 2nd-century BC conflict in which the Roman Republic defeated the Seleucid Empire under Antiochus III, establishing Roman dominance in the eastern Mediterranean.
  • E. Third Syrian War
    The Third Syrian War was a Hellenistic-era conflict (246–241 BCE) between the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Seleucid Empire over control of territories in Coele-Syria and the Levant.
  • 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: Roman intervention in the Sixth Syrian War
Triple: [Gaius Popillius Laenas, participatedIn, Roman intervention in the Sixth Syrian War]
Generated description
The Roman intervention in the Sixth Syrian War was a decisive diplomatic and military assertion of Roman power that forced the Seleucid king Antiochus IV to abandon his invasion of Ptolemaic Egypt in 168 BC.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roman intervention in the Sixth Syrian War
Target entity description: The Roman intervention in the Sixth Syrian War was a decisive diplomatic and military assertion of Roman power that forced the Seleucid king Antiochus IV to abandon his invasion of Ptolemaic Egypt in 168 BC.
  • A. Parthian occupation of Syria
    The Parthian occupation of Syria was a temporary conquest of the Roman province by the Parthian Empire during the late 2nd century BC and early 1st century AD, which disrupted Roman control and prompted major military responses.
  • B. Third Mithridatic War
    The Third Mithridatic War was a major conflict from 73–63 BC in which the Roman Republic decisively defeated King Mithridates VI of Pontus, greatly expanding Roman power in the eastern Mediterranean.
  • C. Second Syrian War
    The Second Syrian War was a Hellenistic-era conflict (c. 260–253 BC) between the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Seleucid Empire over control of territories in Coele-Syria and the eastern Mediterranean.
  • D. Roman–Seleucid War
    The Roman–Seleucid War was a 2nd-century BC conflict in which the Roman Republic defeated the Seleucid Empire under Antiochus III, establishing Roman dominance in the eastern Mediterranean.
  • E. Third Syrian War
    The Third Syrian War was a Hellenistic-era conflict (246–241 BCE) between the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Seleucid Empire over control of territories in Coele-Syria and the Levant.
  • 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_69d8e51a43a08190956bc6df13c91a77 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e653846a248190adc4afe0dc29a402 completed April 20, 2026, 4:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07bd7ac0b48190bc331db6689f7b54 completed May 16, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07be450e608190a008095b0502b2d3 completed May 16, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07bed9c62c819088d8e32f92b3b147 completed May 16, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:49 p.m.