Triple

T23413461
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Byzantine expeditionary force in Italy E560140 entity
Predicate participatedIn P149 FINISHED
Object Siege of Naples (536)
The Siege of Naples (536) was a key early engagement of the Gothic War in which Byzantine forces under Belisarius captured the city from the Ostrogoths, helping to secure imperial control over southern Italy.
E1589626 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: Siege of Naples (536) | Statement: [Byzantine expeditionary force in Italy, participatedIn, Siege of Naples (536)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege of Naples (536)
Context triple: [Byzantine expeditionary force in Italy, participatedIn, Siege of Naples (536)]
  • A. Siege of Rome (537–538)
    The Siege of Rome (537–538) was a major confrontation during the Gothic War in which Byzantine forces under Belisarius defended the city against the Ostrogoths, marking a pivotal moment in Emperor Justinian I’s campaign to reclaim the Western Roman territories.
  • B. Siege of Ravenna (539–540)
    The Siege of Ravenna (539–540) was a decisive Eastern Roman (Byzantine) victory under Belisarius that captured the Ostrogothic capital in Italy and marked a turning point in Justinian I’s reconquest of the Western Roman territories.
  • C. Siege of Atella
    The Siege of Atella was a 1496 Italian Wars engagement in which Spanish forces under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba captured the Neapolitan town of Atella from French control.
  • D. Siege of Ravenna (490–493)
    The Siege of Ravenna (490–493) was the prolonged final confrontation in which Theodoric the Great besieged and ultimately killed Odoacer, ending his rule in Italy and establishing Ostrogothic control.
  • E. Siege of Chandax
    The Siege of Chandax was a protracted 10th-century Byzantine campaign that culminated in the reconquest of Crete from the Arabs, restoring imperial control over the island and curbing piracy in the eastern Mediterranean.
  • 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: Siege of Naples (536)
Triple: [Byzantine expeditionary force in Italy, participatedIn, Siege of Naples (536)]
Generated description
The Siege of Naples (536) was a key early engagement of the Gothic War in which Byzantine forces under Belisarius captured the city from the Ostrogoths, helping to secure imperial control over southern Italy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege of Naples (536)
Target entity description: The Siege of Naples (536) was a key early engagement of the Gothic War in which Byzantine forces under Belisarius captured the city from the Ostrogoths, helping to secure imperial control over southern Italy.
  • A. Siege of Rome (537–538)
    The Siege of Rome (537–538) was a major confrontation during the Gothic War in which Byzantine forces under Belisarius defended the city against the Ostrogoths, marking a pivotal moment in Emperor Justinian I’s campaign to reclaim the Western Roman territories.
  • B. Siege of Ravenna (539–540)
    The Siege of Ravenna (539–540) was a decisive Eastern Roman (Byzantine) victory under Belisarius that captured the Ostrogothic capital in Italy and marked a turning point in Justinian I’s reconquest of the Western Roman territories.
  • C. Siege of Atella
    The Siege of Atella was a 1496 Italian Wars engagement in which Spanish forces under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba captured the Neapolitan town of Atella from French control.
  • D. Siege of Ravenna (490–493)
    The Siege of Ravenna (490–493) was the prolonged final confrontation in which Theodoric the Great besieged and ultimately killed Odoacer, ending his rule in Italy and establishing Ostrogothic control.
  • E. Siege of Chandax
    The Siege of Chandax was a protracted 10th-century Byzantine campaign that culminated in the reconquest of Crete from the Arabs, restoring imperial control over the island and curbing piracy in the eastern Mediterranean.
  • 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_69e2454b3a5881909c64773dc8a5d289 completed April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1a513502881909f33a43bfd5e63a7 completed April 29, 2026, 6:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c8243ada081908ff5312f06b3a465 completed May 19, 2026, 3:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0ca6eee2f48190b4e03039c4c96abe completed May 19, 2026, 6:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0ca819f6dc8190852bb3c06768ac5a completed May 19, 2026, 6:12 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:39 p.m.