Triple

T197092
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Springfield, Ohio, United States E3840 entity
Predicate servedByHighway P385 FINISHED
Object U.S. Route 40
U.S. Route 40 is a major historic east–west U.S. highway that roughly follows the old National Road across the central United States, connecting numerous cities and states from the Mid-Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains.
E127587 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 40 | Statement: [Springfield, Ohio, United States, servedByHighway, U.S. Route 40]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: U.S. Route 40
Context triple: [Springfield, Ohio, United States, servedByHighway, U.S. Route 40]
  • A. Old U.S. Route 40
    Old U.S. Route 40 is a historic transcontinental highway that once connected the U.S. East and West Coasts, serving as a major early 20th-century travel and commerce route across the country.
  • B. U.S. Route 20
    U.S. Route 20 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Pacific Northwest to New England, serving as one of the longest roads in the national highway system.
  • C. U.S. Route 6
    U.S. Route 6 is a major transcontinental U.S. highway running from Massachusetts to California, historically known as one of the longest highways in the United States.
  • D. U.S. Route 50
    U.S. Route 50 is a major transcontinental U.S. highway running east–west across the country from the Atlantic coast in Maryland to California, passing through numerous states and key cities along the way.
  • E. Lincoln Highway
    The Lincoln Highway was one of the earliest transcontinental automobile roads in the United States, stretching from New York to San Francisco and pioneering long-distance highway travel.
  • 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 40
Triple: [Springfield, Ohio, United States, servedByHighway, U.S. Route 40]
Generated description
U.S. Route 40 is a major historic east–west U.S. highway that roughly follows the old National Road across the central United States, connecting numerous cities and states from the Mid-Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: U.S. Route 40
Target entity description: U.S. Route 40 is a major historic east–west U.S. highway that roughly follows the old National Road across the central United States, connecting numerous cities and states from the Mid-Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains.
  • A. Old U.S. Route 40
    Old U.S. Route 40 is a historic transcontinental highway that once connected the U.S. East and West Coasts, serving as a major early 20th-century travel and commerce route across the country.
  • B. U.S. Route 20
    U.S. Route 20 is a major east–west United States highway that stretches from the Pacific Northwest to New England, serving as one of the longest roads in the national highway system.
  • C. U.S. Route 6
    U.S. Route 6 is a major transcontinental U.S. highway running from Massachusetts to California, historically known as one of the longest highways in the United States.
  • D. U.S. Route 50
    U.S. Route 50 is a major transcontinental U.S. highway running east–west across the country from the Atlantic coast in Maryland to California, passing through numerous states and key cities along the way.
  • E. Lincoln Highway
    The Lincoln Highway was one of the earliest transcontinental automobile roads in the United States, stretching from New York to San Francisco and pioneering long-distance highway travel.
  • 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_69a2548debd48190ae3a06d6e65b53c6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:35 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25bc96aa081908ef74c9827c9aa48 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac5370a97881908916b387ff6b02af completed March 7, 2026, 4:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac542bac488190b7d6c2ed9a919779 completed March 7, 2026, 4:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac54971fc88190b009a05180f10cf5 completed March 7, 2026, 4:38 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:41 a.m.