Triple

T14019290

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Interstate 57 in Champaign, Illinois	`E337284`	entity
Predicate	connectsTo	`P845`	FINISHED
Object	U.S. Route 45 near Champaign, Illinois U.S. Route 45 near Champaign, Illinois is a major north–south U.S. highway corridor serving the Champaign area and linking it to other communities in Illinois and beyond.	`E1075800`	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: U.S. Route 45 near Champaign, Illinois | Statement: [Interstate 57 in Champaign, Illinois, connectsTo, U.S. Route 45 near Champaign, Illinois]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: U.S. Route 45 near Champaign, Illinois
Context triple: [Interstate 57 in Champaign, Illinois, connectsTo, U.S. Route 45 near Champaign, Illinois]

A. U.S. Route 34 in Illinois
U.S. Route 34 in Illinois is a major east–west highway that connects rural western parts of the state with the Chicago metropolitan area, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
B. U.S. Route 41 in Chicago, Illinois
U.S. Route 41 in Chicago, Illinois is a major north–south highway that runs along the city’s lakefront and through several key neighborhoods, serving as an important urban arterial route.
C. U.S. Route 20 in Illinois
U.S. Route 20 in Illinois is a major east–west U.S. highway that traverses northern Illinois, connecting rural areas, suburbs, and cities as part of a cross-country route from the Midwest to the East Coast.
D. U.S. Route 12 in Chicago
U.S. Route 12 in Chicago is a key east–west federal highway corridor that traverses the Chicago metropolitan area, connecting the city with surrounding suburbs and regional routes.
E. U.S. Route 41 in Indiana
U.S. Route 41 in Indiana is a major north–south federal highway traversing the state from the Kentucky border to the Michigan line, connecting cities such as Evansville, Terre Haute, and Hammond.
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: U.S. Route 45 near Champaign, Illinois
Triple: [Interstate 57 in Champaign, Illinois, connectsTo, U.S. Route 45 near Champaign, Illinois]

Generated description

U.S. Route 45 near Champaign, Illinois is a major north–south U.S. highway corridor serving the Champaign area and linking it to other communities in Illinois and beyond.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: U.S. Route 45 near Champaign, Illinois
Target entity description: U.S. Route 45 near Champaign, Illinois is a major north–south U.S. highway corridor serving the Champaign area and linking it to other communities in Illinois and beyond.

A. U.S. Route 34 in Illinois
U.S. Route 34 in Illinois is a major east–west highway that connects rural western parts of the state with the Chicago metropolitan area, serving as an important regional transportation corridor.
B. U.S. Route 41 in Chicago, Illinois
U.S. Route 41 in Chicago, Illinois is a major north–south highway that runs along the city’s lakefront and through several key neighborhoods, serving as an important urban arterial route.
C. U.S. Route 20 in Illinois
U.S. Route 20 in Illinois is a major east–west U.S. highway that traverses northern Illinois, connecting rural areas, suburbs, and cities as part of a cross-country route from the Midwest to the East Coast.
D. U.S. Route 12 in Chicago
U.S. Route 12 in Chicago is a key east–west federal highway corridor that traverses the Chicago metropolitan area, connecting the city with surrounding suburbs and regional routes.
E. U.S. Route 41 in Indiana
U.S. Route 41 in Indiana is a major north–south federal highway traversing the state from the Kentucky border to the Michigan line, connecting cities such as Evansville, Terre Haute, and Hammond.
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_69d81c6543a48190bd5ba93d7419e797`	completed	April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69de2f3b5b088190a58715779d2c46a6`	completed	April 14, 2026, 12:12 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69fbc32d77108190b038e8a750738439`	completed	May 6, 2026, 10:39 p.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69fc43e28e288190827925f45b942959`	completed	May 7, 2026, 7:48 a.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69fc444a30a48190a2f65afcd5424d14`	completed	May 7, 2026, 7:50 a.m.

Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:19 p.m.