Triple

T23046998
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Aelian's On the Nature of Animals E573902 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object Claudius Aelianus
Claudius Aelianus was a Roman-era rhetorician and writer in Greek, best known for his miscellanies and works on animals and natural history.
E1568793 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: Claudius Aelianus | Statement: [Aelian's On the Nature of Animals, author, Claudius Aelianus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Claudius Aelianus
Context triple: [Aelian's On the Nature of Animals, author, Claudius Aelianus]
  • A. Claudius Pompeianus
    Claudius Pompeianus was a prominent 2nd-century Roman general and senator, son-in-law of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who played a key military role during the Marcomannic Wars.
  • B. Vitellius
    Vitellius was a short-lived Roman emperor in 69 AD, the tumultuous "Year of the Four Emperors," known for his downfall amid civil war and succession by Vespasian.
  • C. Emperor Trebonianus Gallus
    Emperor Trebonianus Gallus was a mid-3rd-century Roman emperor whose short reign was marked by military crises, plague, and renewed persecution of Christians.
  • D. Bassianus
    Bassianus is a noble Roman and the younger brother of Saturninus in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Titus Andronicus," whose marriage to Lavinia helps ignite the play’s violent political and familial conflicts.
  • E. Iulianus
    Iulianus is a Latin masculine given name and cognomen that is the historical root of various later forms such as Juliane.
  • 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: Claudius Aelianus
Triple: [Aelian's On the Nature of Animals, author, Claudius Aelianus]
Generated description
Claudius Aelianus was a Roman-era rhetorician and writer in Greek, best known for his miscellanies and works on animals and natural history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Claudius Aelianus
Target entity description: Claudius Aelianus was a Roman-era rhetorician and writer in Greek, best known for his miscellanies and works on animals and natural history.
  • A. Claudius Pompeianus
    Claudius Pompeianus was a prominent 2nd-century Roman general and senator, son-in-law of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who played a key military role during the Marcomannic Wars.
  • B. Vitellius
    Vitellius was a short-lived Roman emperor in 69 AD, the tumultuous "Year of the Four Emperors," known for his downfall amid civil war and succession by Vespasian.
  • C. Emperor Trebonianus Gallus
    Emperor Trebonianus Gallus was a mid-3rd-century Roman emperor whose short reign was marked by military crises, plague, and renewed persecution of Christians.
  • D. Bassianus
    Bassianus is a noble Roman and the younger brother of Saturninus in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Titus Andronicus," whose marriage to Lavinia helps ignite the play’s violent political and familial conflicts.
  • E. Iulianus
    Iulianus is a Latin masculine given name and cognomen that is the historical root of various later forms such as Juliane.
  • 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_69e245b9c11481909d06c872214d21af completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18678e5c48190a96a7b4c9c82f8fe completed April 29, 2026, 4:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c0adc6300819096db90634b70e16a completed May 19, 2026, 7:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c0f3fe0d081908b86806ec2399eca completed May 19, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c0fd3f8608190879a222a697716bd completed May 19, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:54 p.m.