Triple

T20501
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lake Michigan E406 entity
Predicate drainageVia P967 FINISHED
Object St. Lawrence River
The St. Lawrence River is a major North American waterway that connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, serving as a crucial route for international shipping and trade.
E9202 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: St. Lawrence River | Statement: [Lake Michigan, drainageVia, St. Lawrence River]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: St. Lawrence River
Context triple: [Lake Michigan, drainageVia, St. Lawrence River]
  • A. Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system
    The Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system is a vast interconnected chain of freshwater lakes and the St. Lawrence River that forms one of the world’s largest inland waterways, linking the interior of North America to the Atlantic Ocean.
  • B. Hudson River
    The Hudson River is a major waterway in eastern New York State that flows south past cities like Albany and New York City before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at New York Harbor.
  • C. Hudson Strait
    Hudson Strait is a large Arctic waterway in northeastern Canada that connects the Atlantic Ocean to Hudson Bay and serves as an important historical and modern shipping route.
  • D. East River
    The East River is a tidal strait in New York City that separates Manhattan from Brooklyn and Queens and serves as a major waterway spanned by several iconic bridges.
  • E. Mohawk River
    The Mohawk River is a major waterway in upstate New York that flows eastward through the Mohawk Valley and serves as a key route connecting the Great Lakes region to the Hudson River.
  • 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: St. Lawrence River
Triple: [Lake Michigan, drainageVia, St. Lawrence River]
Generated description
The St. Lawrence River is a major North American waterway that connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, serving as a crucial route for international shipping and trade.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: St. Lawrence River
Target entity description: The St. Lawrence River is a major North American waterway that connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, serving as a crucial route for international shipping and trade.
  • A. Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system chosen
    The Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system is a vast interconnected chain of freshwater lakes and the St. Lawrence River that forms one of the world’s largest inland waterways, linking the interior of North America to the Atlantic Ocean.
  • B. Hudson River
    The Hudson River is a major waterway in eastern New York State that flows south past cities like Albany and New York City before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at New York Harbor.
  • C. Hudson Strait
    Hudson Strait is a large Arctic waterway in northeastern Canada that connects the Atlantic Ocean to Hudson Bay and serves as an important historical and modern shipping route.
  • D. East River
    The East River is a tidal strait in New York City that separates Manhattan from Brooklyn and Queens and serves as a major waterway spanned by several iconic bridges.
  • E. Mohawk River
    The Mohawk River is a major waterway in upstate New York that flows eastward through the Mohawk Valley and serves as a key route connecting the Great Lakes region to the Hudson River.
  • F. None of above.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: drainageVia
Context triple: [Lake Michigan, drainageVia, St. Lawrence River]
  • A. tributary
    Indicates that one watercourse flows into and feeds another, contributing its water to a larger stream, river, or lake.
  • B. outflow chosen
    Indicates the movement or discharge of something from an origin or source to the outside or to another location.
  • C. riverSystem
    Indicates that one entity is a river system to which the other entity belongs or is a component (such as a tributary or segment).
  • D. hasRiver
    Indicates that a location or area contains, is traversed by, or is directly associated with a river.
  • E. majorPortAtMouth
    Indicates that a major port is located at the mouth of a river where it meets a larger body of water.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69a240778d288190815c0052ebbbcc91 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:10 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a246f7bd30819085f751c41f6f029e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:37 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a275dd42388190b9088b2f1b16e5e4 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a276cd25a081908b0660892187313a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a27717cff881908163406cea8d0052 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:03 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a246526f5881909bc2a46e978bd082 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:35 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:14 a.m.