Triple

T2935336
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Castlegar, British Columbia E79253 entity
Predicate locatedIn P40 FINISHED
Object West Kootenay
West Kootenay is a mountainous region in southeastern British Columbia known for its small cities, outdoor recreation, and historic mining communities.
E311479 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: West Kootenay | Statement: [Castlegar, British Columbia, locatedIn, West Kootenay]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: West Kootenay
Context triple: [Castlegar, British Columbia, locatedIn, West Kootenay]
  • A. Southwestern British Columbia
    Southwestern British Columbia is a coastal region of Canada encompassing the southern part of the province around Vancouver and the Sea-to-Sky corridor, known for its rugged mountains, temperate rainforests, and Pacific shoreline.
  • B. Foxe Basin
    Foxe Basin is a shallow, ice-covered Arctic oceanic basin in northern Canada, located between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula and known for its rich marine wildlife.
  • C. Interior Plateau of British Columbia
    The Interior Plateau of British Columbia is a broad, elevated region of rolling plateaus and valleys in south-central British Columbia, characterized by dry forests, grasslands, and extensive ranching and forestry.
  • D. Thompson-Nicola region
    The Thompson-Nicola region is an area in south-central British Columbia, Canada, encompassing diverse landscapes of river valleys, plateaus, and mountains and home to communities including the Nlaka'pamux First Nation.
  • E. Okanagan Valley
    Okanagan Valley is a major wine-producing and recreational region in south-central British Columbia, known for its warm climate, lakes, orchards, and vineyards.
  • 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: West Kootenay
Triple: [Castlegar, British Columbia, locatedIn, West Kootenay]
Generated description
West Kootenay is a mountainous region in southeastern British Columbia known for its small cities, outdoor recreation, and historic mining communities.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: West Kootenay
Target entity description: West Kootenay is a mountainous region in southeastern British Columbia known for its small cities, outdoor recreation, and historic mining communities.
  • A. Southwestern British Columbia
    Southwestern British Columbia is a coastal region of Canada encompassing the southern part of the province around Vancouver and the Sea-to-Sky corridor, known for its rugged mountains, temperate rainforests, and Pacific shoreline.
  • B. Foxe Basin
    Foxe Basin is a shallow, ice-covered Arctic oceanic basin in northern Canada, located between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula and known for its rich marine wildlife.
  • C. Interior Plateau of British Columbia
    The Interior Plateau of British Columbia is a broad, elevated region of rolling plateaus and valleys in south-central British Columbia, characterized by dry forests, grasslands, and extensive ranching and forestry.
  • D. Thompson-Nicola region
    The Thompson-Nicola region is an area in south-central British Columbia, Canada, encompassing diverse landscapes of river valleys, plateaus, and mountains and home to communities including the Nlaka'pamux First Nation.
  • E. Okanagan Valley
    Okanagan Valley is a major wine-producing and recreational region in south-central British Columbia, known for its warm climate, lakes, orchards, and vineyards.
  • 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_69ad8b0fbab081908f6a61567c045d8d completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad983c84688190aa7ed5b8091fb140 completed March 8, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b0867edf3481909c5fa9d02c5f11b3 completed March 10, 2026, 9 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b0d66e4c188190a6f41593884080e8 completed March 11, 2026, 2:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b0d6abef8c81908d593c39e3824c77 completed March 11, 2026, 2:42 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:56 p.m.