Triple

T3269945
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Northern State University E68620 entity
Predicate city P40 FINISHED
Object Aberdeen, South Dakota
Aberdeen, South Dakota is a small city in northeastern South Dakota known as a regional commercial, educational, and cultural hub for the surrounding rural area.
 E377625 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: Aberdeen, South Dakota | Statement: [Northern State University, city, Aberdeen, South Dakota]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Aberdeen, South Dakota
Context triple: [Northern State University, city, Aberdeen, South Dakota]
  • A. Madison, South Dakota
    Madison, South Dakota is a small city in eastern South Dakota known as a regional hub for education, technology, and agriculture.
  • B. Hartford, South Dakota
    Hartford, South Dakota is a small city in eastern South Dakota that serves as a growing residential community near Sioux Falls.
  • C. Brandon, South Dakota
    Brandon, South Dakota is a small city in the Sioux Falls metropolitan area known as one of the fastest-growing communities in eastern South Dakota.
  • D. Vermillion, South Dakota
    Vermillion, South Dakota is a small city in southeastern South Dakota best known as the home of the University of South Dakota and its flagship campus.
  • E. Columbia, South Dakota
    Columbia, South Dakota is a small rural town located in northeastern South Dakota within Brown County.
  • 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: Aberdeen, South Dakota
Triple: [Northern State University, city, Aberdeen, South Dakota]
Generated description
Aberdeen, South Dakota is a small city in northeastern South Dakota known as a regional commercial, educational, and cultural hub for the surrounding rural area.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Aberdeen, South Dakota
Target entity description: Aberdeen, South Dakota is a small city in northeastern South Dakota known as a regional commercial, educational, and cultural hub for the surrounding rural area.
  • A. Madison, South Dakota
    Madison, South Dakota is a small city in eastern South Dakota known as a regional hub for education, technology, and agriculture.
  • B. Hartford, South Dakota
    Hartford, South Dakota is a small city in eastern South Dakota that serves as a growing residential community near Sioux Falls.
  • C. Brandon, South Dakota
    Brandon, South Dakota is a small city in the Sioux Falls metropolitan area known as one of the fastest-growing communities in eastern South Dakota.
  • D. Vermillion, South Dakota
    Vermillion, South Dakota is a small city in southeastern South Dakota best known as the home of the University of South Dakota and its flagship campus.
  • E. Columbia, South Dakota
    Columbia, South Dakota is a small rural town located in northeastern South Dakota within Brown County.
  • 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_69ad859b54f881909bf530d549caf2fd completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adaff349148190beae8c0994b7ad83 completed March 8, 2026, 5:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b48819b284819092e0a8db20d3e3a2 completed March 13, 2026, 9:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b48acb7dfc8190a862dce9a22c5c8f completed March 13, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4af2032188190b29939d5dc19ccd1 completed March 14, 2026, 12:43 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:09 p.m.