Triple

T574132
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Calumet River E13724 entity
Predicate connectsTo P845 FINISHED
Object Illinois Waterway
The Illinois Waterway is a system of rivers, canals, and locks in Illinois that forms a crucial navigation route linking the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River.
E73293 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: Illinois Waterway | Statement: [Calumet River, connectsTo, Illinois Waterway]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Illinois Waterway
Context triple: [Calumet River, connectsTo, Illinois Waterway]
  • A. Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
    The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is a man-made waterway in Illinois that reverses the flow of the Chicago River, diverts wastewater away from Lake Michigan, and serves as a key navigation link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River system.
  • B. St. Louis River
    The St. Louis River is a major river in northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin that flows into Lake Superior, forming part of the Duluth–Superior harbor and extensive estuary system.
  • C. Chicago River
    The Chicago River is a historically significant waterway in Chicago known for its engineered reversal of flow, its role in the city’s development, and its iconic green dyeing on St. Patrick’s Day.
  • D. Delta-Mendota Canal
    The Delta-Mendota Canal is a major irrigation and water conveyance canal in California’s Central Valley that transports water from the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta to agricultural and urban users in the San Joaquin Valley.
  • E. Fox River
    The Fox River is a Midwestern U.S. river that flows through Wisconsin and Illinois, supporting numerous communities and ecosystems along its course.
  • 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: Illinois Waterway
Triple: [Calumet River, connectsTo, Illinois Waterway]
Generated description
The Illinois Waterway is a system of rivers, canals, and locks in Illinois that forms a crucial navigation route linking the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Illinois Waterway
Target entity description: The Illinois Waterway is a system of rivers, canals, and locks in Illinois that forms a crucial navigation route linking the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River.
  • A. Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal chosen
    The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is a man-made waterway in Illinois that reverses the flow of the Chicago River, diverts wastewater away from Lake Michigan, and serves as a key navigation link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River system.
  • B. St. Louis River
    The St. Louis River is a major river in northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin that flows into Lake Superior, forming part of the Duluth–Superior harbor and extensive estuary system.
  • C. Chicago River
    The Chicago River is a historically significant waterway in Chicago known for its engineered reversal of flow, its role in the city’s development, and its iconic green dyeing on St. Patrick’s Day.
  • D. Delta-Mendota Canal
    The Delta-Mendota Canal is a major irrigation and water conveyance canal in California’s Central Valley that transports water from the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta to agricultural and urban users in the San Joaquin Valley.
  • E. Fox River
    The Fox River is a Midwestern U.S. river that flows through Wisconsin and Illinois, supporting numerous communities and ecosystems along its course.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a4933fa4d88190a7949cc83c08c5c1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49b4c23548190a3b883239c7c78c8 completed March 1, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a510380e048190b2f8f08abf07a594 completed March 2, 2026, 4:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a510af351c8190aa40f108595bc47a completed March 2, 2026, 4:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a511302c34819085eb7e180ccb1a61 completed March 2, 2026, 4:25 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.