Triple

T22626536

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	City of Durham Department of Water Management	`E558434`	entity
Predicate	partOf	`P40`	FINISHED
Object	City of Durham Public Works and Utilities functions City of Durham Public Works and Utilities functions comprise the municipal services responsible for planning, operating, and maintaining the city’s core infrastructure systems such as water, sewer, streets, and related public works.	`E558434`	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: City of Durham Public Works and Utilities functions | Statement: [City of Durham Department of Water Management, partOf, City of Durham Public Works and Utilities functions]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: City of Durham Public Works and Utilities functions
Context triple: [City of Durham Department of Water Management, partOf, City of Durham Public Works and Utilities functions]

A. City of Durham Department of Water Management
The City of Durham Department of Water Management is the municipal agency responsible for providing and overseeing drinking water, wastewater, and related water resource services for the City of Durham, North Carolina.
B. City of Durham Parks and Recreation Department
The City of Durham Parks and Recreation Department is the municipal agency responsible for managing Durham, North Carolina’s public parks, recreational facilities, and community programs.
C. Durham municipal water supply system
The Durham municipal water supply system is the network of reservoirs, treatment facilities, and distribution infrastructure that provides drinking water to the city of Durham, North Carolina and surrounding areas.
D. Durham Parks and Recreation
Durham Parks and Recreation is the municipal department responsible for managing parks, recreational facilities, and community programs in Durham, North Carolina.
E. Durham Town Council
Durham Town Council is the elected municipal governing body responsible for setting policy and overseeing local government operations in Durham, New Hampshire.
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: City of Durham Public Works and Utilities functions
Triple: [City of Durham Department of Water Management, partOf, City of Durham Public Works and Utilities functions]

Generated description

City of Durham Public Works and Utilities functions comprise the municipal services responsible for planning, operating, and maintaining the city’s core infrastructure systems such as water, sewer, streets, and related public works.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: City of Durham Public Works and Utilities functions
Target entity description: City of Durham Public Works and Utilities functions comprise the municipal services responsible for planning, operating, and maintaining the city’s core infrastructure systems such as water, sewer, streets, and related public works.

A. City of Durham Department of Water Management chosen
The City of Durham Department of Water Management is the municipal agency responsible for providing and overseeing drinking water, wastewater, and related water resource services for the City of Durham, North Carolina.
B. City of Durham Parks and Recreation Department
The City of Durham Parks and Recreation Department is the municipal agency responsible for managing Durham, North Carolina’s public parks, recreational facilities, and community programs.
C. Durham municipal water supply system
The Durham municipal water supply system is the network of reservoirs, treatment facilities, and distribution infrastructure that provides drinking water to the city of Durham, North Carolina and surrounding areas.
D. Durham Parks and Recreation
Durham Parks and Recreation is the municipal department responsible for managing parks, recreational facilities, and community programs in Durham, North Carolina.
E. Durham Town Council
Durham Town Council is the elected municipal governing body responsible for setting policy and overseeing local government operations in Durham, New Hampshire.
F. None of above.

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_69e245467d9881908d6985bd0db7a1f1`	completed	April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69f16e3d55b081908930ebff4372154f`	completed	April 29, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_6a0b4e093d288190bd46a771227981b8`	completed	May 18, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_6a0b4f13b2fc8190807c8dda3733cf53`	completed	May 18, 2026, 5:40 p.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_6a0b4fffea548190b0c3d9cce1c89aa9`	completed	May 18, 2026, 5:44 p.m.

Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:01 p.m.