Triple

T21807203
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mamertines of Messana E538379 entity
Predicate originallyServed P33500 FINISHED
Object Agathocles of Syracuse
Agathocles of Syracuse was a powerful tyrant and later king of ancient Syracuse, known for his ruthless rule, military campaigns against Carthage, and significant influence over Sicilian and central Mediterranean politics in the late 4th and early 3rd centuries BCE.
E1502276 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: Agathocles of Syracuse | Statement: [Mamertines of Messana, originallyServed, Agathocles of Syracuse]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Agathocles of Syracuse
Context triple: [Mamertines of Messana, originallyServed, Agathocles of Syracuse]
  • A. Dionysius I of Syracuse
    Dionysius I of Syracuse was a powerful 4th-century BCE tyrant of Syracuse known for his military campaigns against Carthage and his transformation of the city into a major Mediterranean power.
  • B. Dionysius II of Syracuse
    Dionysius II of Syracuse was a 4th-century BC tyrant of Syracuse whose troubled and often ineffectual rule contrasted with that of his powerful father and led to political instability and eventual exile.
  • C. Agathocles of Pella
    Agathocles of Pella was the eldest son and onetime heir of the Hellenistic king Lysimachus, whose execution helped trigger political turmoil and the collapse of his father’s kingdom.
  • D. Gelon of Gela
    Gelon of Gela was a powerful early 5th-century BC Greek tyrant who rose to rule both Gela and Syracuse, playing a major role in Sicilian and wider Greek politics during the Persian Wars era.
  • E. King Gelon II of Syracuse
    King Gelon II of Syracuse was a 3rd-century BC ruler of the Sicilian city-state of Syracuse, known as a patron of learning and the dedicatee of Archimedes’ work *The Sand Reckoner*.
  • 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: Agathocles of Syracuse
Triple: [Mamertines of Messana, originallyServed, Agathocles of Syracuse]
Generated description
Agathocles of Syracuse was a powerful tyrant and later king of ancient Syracuse, known for his ruthless rule, military campaigns against Carthage, and significant influence over Sicilian and central Mediterranean politics in the late 4th and early 3rd centuries BCE.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Agathocles of Syracuse
Target entity description: Agathocles of Syracuse was a powerful tyrant and later king of ancient Syracuse, known for his ruthless rule, military campaigns against Carthage, and significant influence over Sicilian and central Mediterranean politics in the late 4th and early 3rd centuries BCE.
  • A. Dionysius I of Syracuse
    Dionysius I of Syracuse was a powerful 4th-century BCE tyrant of Syracuse known for his military campaigns against Carthage and his transformation of the city into a major Mediterranean power.
  • B. Dionysius II of Syracuse
    Dionysius II of Syracuse was a 4th-century BC tyrant of Syracuse whose troubled and often ineffectual rule contrasted with that of his powerful father and led to political instability and eventual exile.
  • C. Agathocles of Pella
    Agathocles of Pella was the eldest son and onetime heir of the Hellenistic king Lysimachus, whose execution helped trigger political turmoil and the collapse of his father’s kingdom.
  • D. Gelon of Gela
    Gelon of Gela was a powerful early 5th-century BC Greek tyrant who rose to rule both Gela and Syracuse, playing a major role in Sicilian and wider Greek politics during the Persian Wars era.
  • E. King Gelon II of Syracuse
    King Gelon II of Syracuse was a 3rd-century BC ruler of the Sicilian city-state of Syracuse, known as a patron of learning and the dedicatee of Archimedes’ work *The Sand Reckoner*.
  • 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_69e0c473f0f8819086c9d1b4a143bd67 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f07803b4888190af06bf7a90198f60 completed April 28, 2026, 9:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a3e86d8ec81908c8a5a63903e44a4 completed May 17, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a3f4358d48190a88208a55d19a9ef completed May 17, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a404206e0819080c640619cd277ab completed May 17, 2026, 10:25 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:53 p.m.