Triple
T23427068
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Vulca of Veii |
E563221
|
entity |
| Predicate | sourceMention |
P831
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FINISHED |
| Object | Pliny the Elder, Natural History |
E130583
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Pliny the Elder, Natural History | Statement: [Vulca of Veii, sourceMention, Pliny the Elder, Natural History]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pliny the Elder, Natural History Context triple: [Vulca of Veii, sourceMention, Pliny the Elder, Natural History]
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A.
Pliny the Elder’s Natural History
Pliny the Elder’s *Natural History* is a vast first-century Roman encyclopedia that compiles contemporary knowledge on subjects ranging from geography and zoology to art and mineralogy.
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B.
Pliny the Elder
chosen
Pliny the Elder was a 1st-century Roman author, naturalist, and military commander best known for his encyclopedic work "Naturalis Historia," which compiled much of the scientific and cultural knowledge of the ancient world.
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C.
Marcus Annaeus Mela
Marcus Annaeus Mela was a Roman equestrian and father of the poet Lucan, best known as the younger brother of the philosopher and statesman Seneca the Younger.
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D.
Aelian
Aelian was a Roman-era Greek writer and sophist best known for his works on natural history and miscellanies that preserve numerous anecdotes from classical antiquity.
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E.
Aelian's On the Nature of Animals
Aelian's "On the Nature of Animals" is an ancient Greek miscellany that compiles curious anecdotes, moralizing stories, and observations about animal behavior drawn from earlier writers and folklore.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69e24553980c8190bb66a2ae0bdab125 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f1a54a28a08190add6184a44c5005b |
completed | April 29, 2026, 6:29 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a0c67a7b9d88190897588a9ec4fbd2a |
completed | May 19, 2026, 1:37 p.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:47 p.m.