Triple

T7053823
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject California State Water Resources Control Board E164034 entity
Predicate appliesRegulation P1129 FINISHED
Object Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act
The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act is California’s primary water quality law, establishing the framework for regulating and protecting the state’s surface and groundwater resources.
E638145 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: Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act | Statement: [California State Water Resources Control Board, appliesRegulation, Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act
Context triple: [California State Water Resources Control Board, appliesRegulation, Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act]
  • A. Water Quality Act of 1965
    The Water Quality Act of 1965 was a U.S. federal law that strengthened national efforts to control water pollution by requiring states to establish and enforce water quality standards for interstate waters.
  • B. Clean Water Restoration Act of 1966
    The Clean Water Restoration Act of 1966 was a U.S. federal law that significantly strengthened national efforts to control and reduce water pollution, laying groundwork for the modern Clean Water Act framework.
  • C. Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948
    The Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948 was the United States’ first major federal law aimed at reducing water pollution and protecting the nation’s surface waters.
  • D. Clean Water Act
    The Clean Water Act is a landmark U.S. environmental law that regulates the discharge of pollutants into the nation’s waters and sets water quality standards to protect human health and aquatic ecosystems.
  • E. Water Resources Development Act of 1996
    The Water Resources Development Act of 1996 is a United States federal law that authorized and funded a wide range of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects for navigation, flood control, and environmental restoration of the nation’s water resources.
  • 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: Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act
Triple: [California State Water Resources Control Board, appliesRegulation, Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act]
Generated description
The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act is California’s primary water quality law, establishing the framework for regulating and protecting the state’s surface and groundwater resources.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act
Target entity description: The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act is California’s primary water quality law, establishing the framework for regulating and protecting the state’s surface and groundwater resources.
  • A. Water Quality Act of 1965
    The Water Quality Act of 1965 was a U.S. federal law that strengthened national efforts to control water pollution by requiring states to establish and enforce water quality standards for interstate waters.
  • B. Clean Water Restoration Act of 1966
    The Clean Water Restoration Act of 1966 was a U.S. federal law that significantly strengthened national efforts to control and reduce water pollution, laying groundwork for the modern Clean Water Act framework.
  • C. Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948
    The Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948 was the United States’ first major federal law aimed at reducing water pollution and protecting the nation’s surface waters.
  • D. Clean Water Act
    The Clean Water Act is a landmark U.S. environmental law that regulates the discharge of pollutants into the nation’s waters and sets water quality standards to protect human health and aquatic ecosystems.
  • E. Water Resources Development Act of 1996
    The Water Resources Development Act of 1996 is a United States federal law that authorized and funded a wide range of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects for navigation, flood control, and environmental restoration of the nation’s water resources.
  • 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_69c68861678881909961ddf4d779f750 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e265ea348190a9bd3807c0d605d8 completed March 27, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c788980b50819085473407a176e04b completed March 28, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c78905c75c81908bee9a9000e05bd6 completed March 28, 2026, 7:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c789ecb50c8190b67bc1152b33d1eb completed March 28, 2026, 7:57 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:37 p.m.