Triple

T100476
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Urbana, Illinois, United States E2028 entity
Predicate twinCityWith P1072 FINISHED
Object Champaign, Illinois, United States
Champaign is a central Illinois city known for forming the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area and hosting the main campus of the University of Illinois.
E63527 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: Champaign, Illinois, United States | Statement: [Urbana, Illinois, United States, twinCityWith, Champaign, Illinois, United States]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Champaign, Illinois, United States
Context triple: [Urbana, Illinois, United States, twinCityWith, Champaign, Illinois, United States]
  • A. Urbana, Illinois, United States
    Urbana, Illinois, United States is a Midwestern college town best known as home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its major research community.
  • B. Itasca, Illinois
    Itasca, Illinois is a suburban village in DuPage County known for its residential character, business parks, and proximity to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
  • C. Niles, Illinois
    Niles, Illinois is a suburban village northwest of Chicago known for its residential character and landmarks like its Leaning Tower replica.
  • D. Bartlett, Illinois
    Bartlett, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential communities, parks, and forest preserves.
  • E. Evanston, Illinois
    Evanston, Illinois is a suburban city directly north of Chicago, known for being the home of Northwestern University and its vibrant, diverse community along Lake Michigan.
  • 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: Champaign, Illinois, United States
Triple: [Urbana, Illinois, United States, twinCityWith, Champaign, Illinois, United States]
Generated description
Champaign is a central Illinois city known for forming the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area and hosting the main campus of the University of Illinois.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Champaign, Illinois, United States
Target entity description: Champaign is a central Illinois city known for forming the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area and hosting the main campus of the University of Illinois.
  • A. Urbana, Illinois, United States
    Urbana, Illinois, United States is a Midwestern college town best known as home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its major research community.
  • B. Itasca, Illinois
    Itasca, Illinois is a suburban village in DuPage County known for its residential character, business parks, and proximity to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
  • C. Niles, Illinois
    Niles, Illinois is a suburban village northwest of Chicago known for its residential character and landmarks like its Leaning Tower replica.
  • D. Bartlett, Illinois
    Bartlett, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential communities, parks, and forest preserves.
  • E. Evanston, Illinois
    Evanston, Illinois is a suburban city directly north of Chicago, known for being the home of Northwestern University and its vibrant, diverse community along Lake Michigan.
  • 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_69a24d4862f881908cc8b89d3a78031d completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:04 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a256a7957c8190bf9924eff7572b95 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a49eb45f188190a6e1b6d341b29f2a completed March 1, 2026, 8:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a49f2f2b4c8190b35eb623a28187e6 completed March 1, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a49fcd6d448190a40af17c0a113aed completed March 1, 2026, 8:21 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:09 a.m.