Triple

T17527507
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Quincy micropolitan area E426837 entity
Predicate region P40 FINISHED
Object West-Central Illinois
West-Central Illinois is a largely rural region of Illinois characterized by small cities, agricultural communities, and its location along the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers.
 E1276861 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: West-Central Illinois | Statement: [Quincy micropolitan area, region, West-Central Illinois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: West-Central Illinois
Context triple: [Quincy micropolitan area, region, West-Central Illinois]
  • A. Central Illinois
    Central Illinois is a predominantly rural and small-city region in the middle of the U.S. state of Illinois, characterized by its agricultural economy and mid-sized urban centers such as Peoria, Bloomington-Normal, and Champaign-Urbana.
  • B. Southwestern Illinois
    Southwestern Illinois is a region of Illinois just east of St. Louis, Missouri, encompassing several suburban and rural communities in the Metro East area.
  • C. north-central Illinois
    North-central Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois characterized by mid-sized industrial and agricultural communities situated between the Chicago metropolitan area and the state’s western and central rural areas.
  • D. northwestern Illinois
    Northwestern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois that encompasses areas along the Mississippi River and includes cities such as Rock Island and the surrounding Quad Cities metropolitan area.
  • E. northern Illinois
    Northern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois that includes the area around Rockford and the far north counties bordering Wisconsin.
  • 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: West-Central Illinois
Triple: [Quincy micropolitan area, region, West-Central Illinois]
Generated description
West-Central Illinois is a largely rural region of Illinois characterized by small cities, agricultural communities, and its location along the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: West-Central Illinois
Target entity description: West-Central Illinois is a largely rural region of Illinois characterized by small cities, agricultural communities, and its location along the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers.
  • A. Central Illinois
    Central Illinois is a predominantly rural and small-city region in the middle of the U.S. state of Illinois, characterized by its agricultural economy and mid-sized urban centers such as Peoria, Bloomington-Normal, and Champaign-Urbana.
  • B. Southwestern Illinois
    Southwestern Illinois is a region of Illinois just east of St. Louis, Missouri, encompassing several suburban and rural communities in the Metro East area.
  • C. north-central Illinois
    North-central Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois characterized by mid-sized industrial and agricultural communities situated between the Chicago metropolitan area and the state’s western and central rural areas.
  • D. northwestern Illinois
    Northwestern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois that encompasses areas along the Mississippi River and includes cities such as Rock Island and the surrounding Quad Cities metropolitan area.
  • E. northern Illinois
    Northern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois that includes the area around Rockford and the far north counties bordering Wisconsin.
  • 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_69d889de677081909b22d2657b1f0292 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e452d7523c819099278507e4a718d4 completed April 19, 2026, 3:58 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01dddcb3148190b769e01a159fd5e7 completed May 11, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01dfaf934481908753eb760115074a completed May 11, 2026, 1:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01e02a5d9481909cd957c14a4eff3b completed May 11, 2026, 1:56 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:49 a.m.