Triple
T543405
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William R. Shafter |
E12680
|
entity |
| Predicate | placeOfBirth |
P1
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Kalamazoo County, Michigan |
E53993
|
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: Kalamazoo County, Michigan | Statement: [William R. Shafter, placeOfBirth, Kalamazoo County, Michigan]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kalamazoo County, Michigan Context triple: [William R. Shafter, placeOfBirth, Kalamazoo County, Michigan]
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A.
Kalamazoo County, Michigan
chosen
Kalamazoo County, Michigan is a county in the southwestern part of the state known for the city of Kalamazoo, its educational institutions, and a mix of urban and agricultural areas.
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B.
Saginaw County, Michigan
Saginaw County, Michigan is a county in the east-central part of the state known for its industrial history, agricultural production, and the city of Saginaw as its county seat.
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C.
Muskegon County, Michigan
Muskegon County, Michigan is a county on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan known for its port city of Muskegon, industrial history, and lakeshore recreation.
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D.
Genesee County, Michigan
Genesee County, Michigan is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan best known for its county seat Flint, a historic center of the American auto industry and site of the Flint water crisis.
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E.
Macomb County, Michigan
Macomb County, Michigan is a populous county in the Detroit metropolitan area known for its suburban communities, manufacturing base, and location along the western shore of Lake St. Clair.
- 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_69a49334226c81908b0ea1689ef6aa3f |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4986250508190ac91cfdf7d57073d |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a4d042a590819096ed622dc6bcf8e4 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 11:48 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.