Triple

T3499139
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Illinois Waterway system E73921 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Marseilles Lock and Dam
Marseilles Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Illinois River that helps regulate water levels and vessel traffic as part of the Illinois Waterway.
 E368609 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: Marseilles Lock and Dam | Statement: [Illinois Waterway system, hasPart, Marseilles Lock and Dam]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Marseilles Lock and Dam
Context triple: [Illinois Waterway system, hasPart, Marseilles Lock and Dam]
  • A. Murray Lock and Dam
    Murray Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Arkansas River near Little Rock, Arkansas, that helps regulate river flow and support commercial barge traffic.
  • B. Dardanelle Lock and Dam
    Dardanelle Lock and Dam is a major navigation and hydroelectric structure on the Arkansas River in Arkansas, forming part of the McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System.
  • C. Dresden Island Lock and Dam
    Dresden Island Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Illinois Waterway that helps regulate river levels and facilitate barge traffic in northeastern Illinois.
  • D. Fonserannes Locks
    Fonserannes Locks is a historic multi-chamber lock staircase on the Canal du Midi near Béziers in southern France, renowned as one of the canal’s most impressive engineering works.
  • E. Lockport Lock and Dam
    Lockport Lock and Dam is a major lock and dam complex on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that controls water levels, aids navigation, and helps manage flood and wastewater flows between the Chicago area and the Des Plaines River.
  • 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: Marseilles Lock and Dam
Triple: [Illinois Waterway system, hasPart, Marseilles Lock and Dam]
Generated description
Marseilles Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Illinois River that helps regulate water levels and vessel traffic as part of the Illinois Waterway.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Marseilles Lock and Dam
Target entity description: Marseilles Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Illinois River that helps regulate water levels and vessel traffic as part of the Illinois Waterway.
  • A. Murray Lock and Dam
    Murray Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Arkansas River near Little Rock, Arkansas, that helps regulate river flow and support commercial barge traffic.
  • B. Dardanelle Lock and Dam
    Dardanelle Lock and Dam is a major navigation and hydroelectric structure on the Arkansas River in Arkansas, forming part of the McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System.
  • C. Dresden Island Lock and Dam
    Dresden Island Lock and Dam is a navigation and flood-control structure on the Illinois Waterway that helps regulate river levels and facilitate barge traffic in northeastern Illinois.
  • D. Fonserannes Locks
    Fonserannes Locks is a historic multi-chamber lock staircase on the Canal du Midi near Béziers in southern France, renowned as one of the canal’s most impressive engineering works.
  • E. Lockport Lock and Dam
    Lockport Lock and Dam is a major lock and dam complex on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that controls water levels, aids navigation, and helps manage flood and wastewater flows between the Chicago area and the Des Plaines River.
  • 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_69ad85cdb6e48190a335d412b9194ed8 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbbd3ad548190abbfae820bf3b66d completed March 8, 2026, 6:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b3bb7d6ab881909bf4c895646af259 completed March 13, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b3bc222eec81908c984dce75e8ef1e completed March 13, 2026, 7:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3e6d6263c81908aed3efe5486934f completed March 13, 2026, 10:28 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:18 p.m.