Triple
T1929321
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Iowa City metropolitan area |
E40905
|
entity |
| Predicate | alsoKnownAs |
P39
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Iowa City metro area |
E40905
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Iowa City metro area | Statement: [Iowa City metropolitan area, alsoKnownAs, Iowa City metro area]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Iowa City metro area Context triple: [Iowa City metropolitan area, alsoKnownAs, Iowa City metro area]
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A.
Iowa City metropolitan area
chosen
The Iowa City metropolitan area is a regional urban and economic hub in eastern Iowa centered on the city of Iowa City and its surrounding communities.
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B.
Cedar Rapids metropolitan area
The Cedar Rapids metropolitan area is a regional urban and economic hub in eastern Iowa centered on the city of Cedar Rapids and its surrounding counties.
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C.
Iowa City, Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa is a mid-sized Midwestern city best known as the home of the University of Iowa and a UNESCO City of Literature.
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D.
Des Moines–West Des Moines metropolitan area
The Des Moines–West Des Moines metropolitan area is a major urban and economic hub in central Iowa centered on the state capital of Des Moines and its surrounding suburbs and counties.
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E.
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids is a 2011 American comedy film starring Ed Helms as a naive insurance agent navigating unexpected misadventures at a regional conference in Iowa.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a8864711648190b07bed24ed76258e |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abb266dcb4819090be83556615d0db |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:06 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ae892f5bac8190b1033a1eacfab7ef |
completed | March 9, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:35 p.m.