Triple

T4733247
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Buttermilk Channel E105060 entity
Predicate hasAlternativeName P39 FINISHED
Object Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor
Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor, is a tidal strait in New York City separating Brooklyn from Governors Island and serving as a key navigational channel within the Upper New York Bay.
E518853 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: Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor | Statement: [Buttermilk Channel, hasAlternativeName, Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor
Context triple: [Buttermilk Channel, hasAlternativeName, Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor]
  • A. Flushing Bay
    Flushing Bay is a tidal embayment in northern Queens, New York City, forming part of the East River and lying adjacent to major landmarks such as LaGuardia Airport and Citi Field.
  • B. Newtown Creek
    Newtown Creek is a heavily industrialized tidal estuary in New York City that forms part of the boundary between Brooklyn and Queens and is known as one of the most polluted waterways in the United States.
  • C. East River
    The East River is a tidal strait in New York City that separates Manhattan from Brooklyn and Queens and serves as a major waterway spanned by several iconic bridges.
  • D. East River
    The East River is a tributary waterway in the Appalachian region of the United States that flows through southern West Virginia and into Virginia.
  • E. East River
    The East River is a mountain river in Gunnison County, Colorado, that flows through the Elk Mountains and joins the Taylor River to form the Gunnison 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: Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor
Triple: [Buttermilk Channel, hasAlternativeName, Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor]
Generated description
Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor, is a tidal strait in New York City separating Brooklyn from Governors Island and serving as a key navigational channel within the Upper New York Bay.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor
Target entity description: Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor, is a tidal strait in New York City separating Brooklyn from Governors Island and serving as a key navigational channel within the Upper New York Bay.
  • A. Flushing Bay
    Flushing Bay is a tidal embayment in northern Queens, New York City, forming part of the East River and lying adjacent to major landmarks such as LaGuardia Airport and Citi Field.
  • B. Newtown Creek
    Newtown Creek is a heavily industrialized tidal estuary in New York City that forms part of the boundary between Brooklyn and Queens and is known as one of the most polluted waterways in the United States.
  • C. East River
    The East River is a tidal strait in New York City that separates Manhattan from Brooklyn and Queens and serves as a major waterway spanned by several iconic bridges.
  • D. East River
    The East River is a mountain river in Gunnison County, Colorado, that flows through the Elk Mountains and joins the Taylor River to form the Gunnison River.
  • E. East River
    The East River is a tributary waterway in the Appalachian region of the United States that flows through southern West Virginia and into Virginia.
  • 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_69bd43ee52048190b81a4f066534ffb3 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6466354481908595f5bb56025cdb completed March 20, 2026, 3:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf3a7def848190836605d706aa7599 completed March 22, 2026, 12:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf3c38bbec8190a7722de71b9f7ce0 completed March 22, 2026, 12:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf3c92220c819095e4e90f62086618 completed March 22, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:19 p.m.