Triple

T16535190
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Butler County, Iowa E401672 entity
Predicate hasCity P316 FINISHED
Object Aplington, Iowa
Aplington, Iowa is a small rural city in north-central Iowa known for its close-knit community and agricultural surroundings.
E1222451 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: Aplington, Iowa | Statement: [Butler County, Iowa, hasCity, Aplington, Iowa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aplington, Iowa
Context triple: [Butler County, Iowa, hasCity, Aplington, Iowa]
  • A. Plainfield, Iowa
    Plainfield, Iowa is a small rural city located in northeastern Iowa within the Waterloo–Cedar Falls metropolitan area.
  • B. Bloomfield, Iowa
    Bloomfield, Iowa is a small city in Davis County known for its historic town square and role as a local agricultural and commercial center in southeastern Iowa.
  • C. Mapleton, Iowa
    Mapleton, Iowa is a small rural city in western Iowa known for its agricultural surroundings and tight-knit community.
  • D. Wheatland, Iowa
    Wheatland, Iowa is a small rural city in eastern Iowa known for its agricultural community and location within Clinton County.
  • E. Arlington, Iowa
    Arlington, Iowa is a small rural city in northeastern Iowa known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
  • 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: Aplington, Iowa
Triple: [Butler County, Iowa, hasCity, Aplington, Iowa]
Generated description
Aplington, Iowa is a small rural city in north-central Iowa known for its close-knit community and agricultural surroundings.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aplington, Iowa
Target entity description: Aplington, Iowa is a small rural city in north-central Iowa known for its close-knit community and agricultural surroundings.
  • A. Plainfield, Iowa
    Plainfield, Iowa is a small rural city located in northeastern Iowa within the Waterloo–Cedar Falls metropolitan area.
  • B. Bloomfield, Iowa
    Bloomfield, Iowa is a small city in Davis County known for its historic town square and role as a local agricultural and commercial center in southeastern Iowa.
  • C. Mapleton, Iowa
    Mapleton, Iowa is a small rural city in western Iowa known for its agricultural surroundings and tight-knit community.
  • D. Wheatland, Iowa
    Wheatland, Iowa is a small rural city in eastern Iowa known for its agricultural community and location within Clinton County.
  • E. Arlington, Iowa
    Arlington, Iowa is a small rural city in northeastern Iowa known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
  • 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_69d88384bc30819084229e7dcdc39a41 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e345574d88819094548367bf983078 completed April 18, 2026, 8:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00758d82748190acfb8bbc3047d5a5 completed May 10, 2026, 12:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00762ce9a881908b41b610c3f14780 completed May 10, 2026, 12:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a007728680c819082a3bd7e84edb2b0 completed May 10, 2026, 12:16 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:15 a.m.