Triple

T648100
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shelby County, Alabama E11285 entity
Predicate countySeat P383 FINISHED
Object Columbiana, Alabama
Columbiana, Alabama is a small city in central Alabama known for its historic downtown, civic institutions, and role as an administrative and cultural hub for the surrounding region.
E81082 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: Columbiana, Alabama | Statement: [Shelby County, Alabama, countySeat, Columbiana, Alabama]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Columbiana, Alabama
Context triple: [Shelby County, Alabama, countySeat, Columbiana, Alabama]
  • A. Blount County, Alabama
    Blount County, Alabama is a largely rural county in north-central Alabama known for its scenic Appalachian foothills, historic covered bridges, and inclusion in the greater Birmingham–Hoover region.
  • B. St. Clair County, Alabama
    St. Clair County, Alabama is a county in central Alabama that forms part of the greater Birmingham–Hoover urban and economic region.
  • C. Fairfield, Alabama
    Fairfield, Alabama is a small city in Jefferson County that functions as a residential and industrial suburb of Birmingham within central Alabama.
  • D. Geneva County, Alabama
    Geneva County, Alabama is a rural county in the southeastern part of the state known for its agricultural economy and location in the Wiregrass region near the Florida border.
  • E. Coffee County, Alabama
    Coffee County, Alabama is a rural county in southeastern Alabama known for its agricultural economy, particularly peanut farming, and its county seat, Elba.
  • 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: Columbiana, Alabama
Triple: [Shelby County, Alabama, countySeat, Columbiana, Alabama]
Generated description
Columbiana, Alabama is a small city in central Alabama known for its historic downtown, civic institutions, and role as an administrative and cultural hub for the surrounding region.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Columbiana, Alabama
Target entity description: Columbiana, Alabama is a small city in central Alabama known for its historic downtown, civic institutions, and role as an administrative and cultural hub for the surrounding region.
  • A. Blount County, Alabama
    Blount County, Alabama is a largely rural county in north-central Alabama known for its scenic Appalachian foothills, historic covered bridges, and inclusion in the greater Birmingham–Hoover region.
  • B. St. Clair County, Alabama
    St. Clair County, Alabama is a county in central Alabama that forms part of the greater Birmingham–Hoover urban and economic region.
  • C. Fairfield, Alabama
    Fairfield, Alabama is a small city in Jefferson County that functions as a residential and industrial suburb of Birmingham within central Alabama.
  • D. Geneva County, Alabama
    Geneva County, Alabama is a rural county in the southeastern part of the state known for its agricultural economy and location in the Wiregrass region near the Florida border.
  • E. Coffee County, Alabama
    Coffee County, Alabama is a rural county in southeastern Alabama known for its agricultural economy, particularly peanut farming, and its county seat, Elba.
  • 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_69a493266a2881909daf4c40f719dee8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49f308f34819094ba28cfc786051e completed March 1, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a580373e3c81909aa9ff50f3b1e781 completed March 2, 2026, 12:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a5833e10bc819091dba5bb5ec9ea85 completed March 2, 2026, 12:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a583a35678819087d440a05c7b636d completed March 2, 2026, 12:33 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.