Triple
T22541539
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Mississippi River near Grafton, Illinois |
E557300
|
entity |
| Predicate | hydrologicRegion |
P8237
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FINISHED |
| Object | Upper Mississippi drainage basin |
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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: Upper Mississippi drainage basin | Statement: [Mississippi River near Grafton, Illinois, hydrologicRegion, Upper Mississippi drainage basin]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Upper Mississippi drainage basin Context triple: [Mississippi River near Grafton, Illinois, hydrologicRegion, Upper Mississippi drainage basin]
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A.
Upper Mississippi Valley
chosen
The Upper Mississippi Valley is a region along the upper course of the Mississippi River, encompassing parts of several Midwestern U.S. states and historically significant for trade, settlement, and military activity.
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B.
Middle Mississippi River basin
The Middle Mississippi River basin is the central portion of the Mississippi River’s drainage system, collecting waters from the upper Midwest before they flow into the lower Mississippi region.
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C.
Mississippi River basin
The Mississippi River basin is the vast drainage area of the Mississippi River system, encompassing much of the central United States and parts of Canada and covering one of the largest river basins in the world.
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D.
Lower Mississippi River basin
The Lower Mississippi River basin is the southernmost portion of the Mississippi River drainage system, encompassing the river’s broad floodplain and delta region as it flows toward and empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
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E.
Illinois River basin
The Illinois River basin is a major Midwestern U.S. watershed that drains much of Illinois and parts of neighboring states into the Illinois River, supporting extensive agricultural, urban, and ecological systems.
- 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_69e11e58662081909ae346ab384514ca |
completed | April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f15f3251808190a72b849157854d8d |
completed | April 29, 2026, 1:30 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:51 p.m.