Triple

T20732936
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James M. McPherson E509615 entity
Predicate placeOfBirth P1 FINISHED
Object Valley City, North Dakota, United States — NE NERFINISHED

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: Valley City, North Dakota, United States | Statement: [James M. McPherson, placeOfBirth, Valley City, North Dakota, United States]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Valley City, North Dakota, United States
Context triple: [James M. McPherson, placeOfBirth, Valley City, North Dakota, United States]
  • A. Valley City, North Dakota, United States chosen
    Valley City, North Dakota, United States, is a small city in Barnes County known for its historic bridges and scenic location along the Sheyenne River.
  • B. Springfield, North Dakota
    Springfield, North Dakota is a small, likely rural community in the U.S. state of North Dakota.
  • C. Minot, North Dakota
    Minot, North Dakota is a small city in north-central North Dakota known as a regional economic and transportation hub, particularly for rail and highway travel, and for hosting the Minot Air Force Base.
  • D. Williston, North Dakota
    Williston, North Dakota is a small city in the northwestern part of the state known as a major hub for the Bakken oil boom and regional energy industry.
  • E. Riverdale, North Dakota
    Riverdale, North Dakota is a small city in McLean County best known as a former construction town for the Garrison Dam on the Missouri River and its proximity to Lake Sakakawea.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (2 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_69e0b4c589c08190834fb5d86d0efa2b completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c1ee49a48190876fa05eb291e54e completed April 21, 2026, 12:16 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:31 p.m.