Triple

T4757
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Carl Sagan E93 entity
Predicate workLocation P7 FINISHED
Object Ithaca, New York, United States
Ithaca, New York, United States is a small city in the Finger Lakes region best known as the home of Cornell University and a historic center of academic and scientific research.
 E1105 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: Ithaca, New York, United States | Statement: [Carl Sagan, workLocation, Ithaca, New York, United States]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ithaca, New York, United States
Context triple: [Carl Sagan, workLocation, Ithaca, New York, United States]
  • A. Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
    Belmont, Massachusetts, United States, is a suburban town just west of Boston known for its affluent residential character and strong public schools.
  • B. Cambridge, Massachusetts
    Cambridge, Massachusetts is a historic and academically renowned city just outside Boston, best known for being home to world-leading universities and research institutions.
  • C. Hyde Park, New York, United States
    Hyde Park, New York, United States is a Hudson River town best known as the lifelong home of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and site of his presidential library and estate.
  • D. Everett, Massachusetts, United States
    Everett, Massachusetts, United States, is a small industrial city just north of Boston known historically for its manufacturing base and as the birthplace of influential engineer and science administrator Vannevar Bush.
  • E. Douglas
    Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
  • 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: Ithaca, New York, United States
Triple: [Carl Sagan, workLocation, Ithaca, New York, United States]
Generated description
Ithaca, New York, United States is a small city in the Finger Lakes region best known as the home of Cornell University and a historic center of academic and scientific research.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ithaca, New York, United States
Target entity description: Ithaca, New York, United States is a small city in the Finger Lakes region best known as the home of Cornell University and a historic center of academic and scientific research.
  • A. Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
    Belmont, Massachusetts, United States, is a suburban town just west of Boston known for its affluent residential character and strong public schools.
  • B. Cambridge, Massachusetts
    Cambridge, Massachusetts is a historic and academically renowned city just outside Boston, best known for being home to world-leading universities and research institutions.
  • C. Hyde Park, New York, United States
    Hyde Park, New York, United States is a Hudson River town best known as the lifelong home of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and site of his presidential library and estate.
  • D. Everett, Massachusetts, United States
    Everett, Massachusetts, United States, is a small industrial city just north of Boston known historically for its manufacturing base and as the birthplace of influential engineer and science administrator Vannevar Bush.
  • E. Douglas
    Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
  • 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_69a238d6b47881909e68288aed2fd858 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:37 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2399c646c8190b4977ed56b8835a8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a243c6f10c81908305b9e03c79a6ae completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2463b1a8881908e900ed76ae81a4d completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a246aa8d6481908a9cc6d66a0c0296 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:36 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 12:40 a.m.