Triple

T123322
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area E2492 entity
Predicate hasPrincipalCity P3940 FINISHED
Object Birmingham, Alabama E635 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Birmingham, Alabama | Statement: [Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area, hasPrincipalCity, Birmingham, Alabama]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Birmingham, Alabama
Context triple: [Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area, hasPrincipalCity, Birmingham, Alabama]
  • A. Birmingham, Alabama, United States chosen
    Birmingham, Alabama, United States is a major industrial and cultural city in the American South, historically known for its steel production and pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement.
  • B. Montgomery, Alabama
    Montgomery, Alabama is the state capital known as a pivotal center of the American civil rights movement, including events such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
  • C. Birmingham
    Birmingham is a major industrial city in England’s West Midlands, historically significant for its manufacturing heritage and heavy bombing during the Second World War.
  • D. Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area
    The Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area is a major urban and economic region in central Alabama centered on the cities of Birmingham and Hoover and their surrounding communities.
  • E. Hoover, Alabama
    Hoover, Alabama is a suburban city in Jefferson and Shelby counties known for its large shopping centers, residential communities, and role as a major suburb of Birmingham.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: hasPrincipalCity
Context triple: [Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area, hasPrincipalCity, Birmingham, Alabama]
  • A. primaryCity chosen
    Indicates that one city serves as the main or most important city associated with a given region, entity, or context.
  • B. hasMajorCity
    Indicates that a location possesses at least one city of significant size, importance, or influence within its region or country.
  • C. servesAsFocusCityFor
    Indicates that a city functions as a primary or designated focus city for an airline, organization, or transportation network, typically hosting significant but not hub-level operations or activities.
  • D. isProvincialCapital
    Indicates that a location serves as the administrative capital of a province within a country or region.
  • E. hasIndependentCity
    Indicates that a larger administrative region or entity contains a city that is administratively independent from the surrounding local jurisdictions.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (4 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_69a251b54ea88190b18281669f59b4c0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:23 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2573b4e7481909ee09d2899f8a74b completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2b4b90654819092780651ae9408e9 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a2564928208190966a619680a0d6e2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:43 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:27 a.m.