Triple

T23377150
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Byzantine province of Syria Secunda E593638 entity
Predicate capital P234 FINISHED
Object Apamea
Apamea was an important ancient city in Syria that served as a major administrative, military, and commercial center in the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods.
E1584391 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: Apamea | Statement: [Byzantine province of Syria Secunda, capital, Apamea]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Apamea
Context triple: [Byzantine province of Syria Secunda, capital, Apamea]
  • A. Apamea
    Apamea was an important ancient Hellenistic and Roman city in the region of Phrygia in Asia Minor, known as a commercial and strategic center.
  • B. Ptolemaida
    Ptolemaida is a city in northern Greece known for its significant lignite mines and power plants, making it an important center of the country’s energy production.
  • C. Peraea
    Peraea is a historical region east of the Jordan River that formed part of ancient Judea during the Second Temple period.
  • D. Stratonicea
    Stratonicea was an important Hellenistic city in ancient Caria, known for its impressive urban layout and later Roman-era developments in what is now southwestern Turkey.
  • E. Telmessos
    Telmessos was an ancient Lycian city in southwestern Anatolia, known as an important coastal settlement and religious center in classical antiquity.
  • 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: Apamea
Triple: [Byzantine province of Syria Secunda, capital, Apamea]
Generated description
Apamea was an important ancient city in Syria that served as a major administrative, military, and commercial center in the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Apamea
Target entity description: Apamea was an important ancient city in Syria that served as a major administrative, military, and commercial center in the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods.
  • A. Apamea
    Apamea was an important ancient Hellenistic and Roman city in the region of Phrygia in Asia Minor, known as a commercial and strategic center.
  • B. Ptolemaida
    Ptolemaida is a city in northern Greece known for its significant lignite mines and power plants, making it an important center of the country’s energy production.
  • C. Peraea
    Peraea is a historical region east of the Jordan River that formed part of ancient Judea during the Second Temple period.
  • D. Stratonicea
    Stratonicea was an important Hellenistic city in ancient Caria, known for its impressive urban layout and later Roman-era developments in what is now southwestern Turkey.
  • E. Telmessos
    Telmessos was an ancient Lycian city in southwestern Anatolia, known as an important coastal settlement and religious center in classical antiquity.
  • 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_69e25d268a50819095f2fd479da8ef3f completed April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1a3b3cc348190953d0b0ebac9c5dd completed April 29, 2026, 6:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c5de1c1748190994c4a95d0592fef completed May 19, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c62554bbc8190bf8b2302f1e4be01 completed May 19, 2026, 1:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c62f9fba081908d822630e09d3bee completed May 19, 2026, 1:17 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:33 p.m.