Triple

T14313708
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New Ulm, Minnesota E354898 entity
Predicate locatedOnRiver P165 FINISHED
Object Cottonwood River
The Cottonwood River is a tributary of the Minnesota River in southern Minnesota, flowing through communities such as New Ulm and supporting regional agriculture and wildlife.
 E1201638 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: Cottonwood River | Statement: [New Ulm, Minnesota, locatedOnRiver, Cottonwood River]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cottonwood River
Context triple: [New Ulm, Minnesota, locatedOnRiver, Cottonwood River]
  • A. Cottonwood River
    The Cottonwood River is a tributary of the Neosho River in central Kansas, flowing through the city of Emporia and the surrounding prairie landscape.
  • B. Tuba River
    The Tuba River is a significant river in Siberia, Russia, known for flowing through the Krasnoyarsk region and contributing to the vast Yenisei River basin.
  • C. Salat River
    The Salat River is a watercourse in southwestern France that flows through the Pyrenean foothills, including the town of Saint-Girons, before joining the Garonne River.
  • D. Red Cedar River
    The Red Cedar River is a significant river in Wisconsin that flows through agricultural and forested regions before joining the Chippewa River.
  • E. Red Cedar River
    The Red Cedar River is a tributary of the Grand River in Michigan that flows through the campus of Michigan State University and the city of East Lansing.
  • 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: Cottonwood River
Triple: [New Ulm, Minnesota, locatedOnRiver, Cottonwood River]
Generated description
The Cottonwood River is a tributary of the Minnesota River in southern Minnesota, flowing through communities such as New Ulm and supporting regional agriculture and wildlife.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cottonwood River
Target entity description: The Cottonwood River is a tributary of the Minnesota River in southern Minnesota, flowing through communities such as New Ulm and supporting regional agriculture and wildlife.
  • A. Cottonwood River
    The Cottonwood River is a tributary of the Neosho River in central Kansas, flowing through the city of Emporia and the surrounding prairie landscape.
  • B. Tuba River
    The Tuba River is a significant river in Siberia, Russia, known for flowing through the Krasnoyarsk region and contributing to the vast Yenisei River basin.
  • C. Salat River
    The Salat River is a watercourse in southwestern France that flows through the Pyrenean foothills, including the town of Saint-Girons, before joining the Garonne River.
  • D. Red Cedar River
    The Red Cedar River is a significant river in Wisconsin that flows through agricultural and forested regions before joining the Chippewa River.
  • E. Red Cedar River
    The Red Cedar River is a tributary of the Grand River in Michigan that flows through the campus of Michigan State University and the city of East Lansing.
  • 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_69d8278ed42c8190b9f882dcce611347 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de85b49e5481909b9ffab2d922e284 completed April 14, 2026, 6:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a000ebbc67c8190bd930a2773edb5b2 completed May 10, 2026, 4:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a000f7e6338819099598bc22d31cd22 completed May 10, 2026, 4:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a001025300c819084933d9c6d19fe97 completed May 10, 2026, 4:57 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:12 a.m.