Triple
T4930041
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Black Country |
E110670
|
entity |
| Predicate | countrySubdivision |
P766
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Metropolitan County of West Midlands |
E15155
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Metropolitan County of West Midlands | Statement: [Black Country, countrySubdivision, Metropolitan County of West Midlands]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Metropolitan County of West Midlands Context triple: [Black Country, countrySubdivision, Metropolitan County of West Midlands]
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A.
Metropolitan Borough of Birmingham
The Metropolitan Borough of Birmingham was a former local government district in England that encompassed the rapidly industrializing city of Birmingham and its surrounding areas before later administrative reorganization.
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B.
Metropolitan Borough of Dudley
The Metropolitan Borough of Dudley is a local government district in the West Midlands of England that encompasses the large town of Dudley and surrounding urban areas within the Black Country.
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C.
Metropolitan Borough of Walsall
The Metropolitan Borough of Walsall is a local government district and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England that encompasses the town of Walsall and its surrounding urban areas.
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D.
West Midlands
chosen
West Midlands is a metropolitan county and region in central England that includes major cities such as Birmingham, Coventry, and Wolverhampton and serves as a key industrial and cultural hub.
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E.
Sandwell
Sandwell is a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England, forming part of the Birmingham conurbation and encompassing several former industrial towns.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69bd4415190c8190817bee7ec9f9f944 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd703a0fa48190809b6ac3f2731349 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 4:05 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69be77af13308190b99f3aca0cb44c61 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 10:49 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:30 p.m.