Triple

T7412715
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Middletown, Maryland E171049 entity
Predicate locatedOn P40 FINISHED
Object U.S. Route 40 Alternate
U.S. Route 40 Alternate is a scenic and historic alternate alignment of U.S. Route 40 that passes through several towns in Maryland, serving as a local main street and connector road.
E854622 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: U.S. Route 40 Alternate | Statement: [Middletown, Maryland, locatedOn, U.S. Route 40 Alternate]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: U.S. Route 40 Alternate
Context triple: [Middletown, Maryland, locatedOn, U.S. Route 40 Alternate]
  • A. U.S. Route 72 Alternate
    U.S. Route 72 Alternate is an auxiliary U.S. highway in northern Alabama that serves as an alternate east–west route to U.S. Route 72, connecting cities such as Decatur and Huntsville.
  • B. U.S. Route 1 Alternate
    U.S. Route 1 Alternate is a major auxiliary route of U.S. Route 1 in Maryland that serves local traffic through urban and suburban areas parallel to the main highway.
  • C. U.S. Route 27 Alternate
    U.S. Route 27 Alternate is an auxiliary U.S. highway that provides an alternate north–south route to U.S. Route 27 through parts of Georgia and neighboring states.
  • D. U.S. Route 400
    U.S. Route 400 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running across the central United States, primarily through Kansas and neighboring states, connecting numerous regional cities and transportation corridors.
  • E. U.S. Route 460
    U.S. Route 460 is a major east–west U.S. highway running through several states in the eastern United States, connecting communities in the Appalachian region to larger urban and transportation networks.
  • 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: U.S. Route 40 Alternate
Triple: [Middletown, Maryland, locatedOn, U.S. Route 40 Alternate]
Generated description
U.S. Route 40 Alternate is a scenic and historic alternate alignment of U.S. Route 40 that passes through several towns in Maryland, serving as a local main street and connector road.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: U.S. Route 40 Alternate
Target entity description: U.S. Route 40 Alternate is a scenic and historic alternate alignment of U.S. Route 40 that passes through several towns in Maryland, serving as a local main street and connector road.
  • A. U.S. Route 72 Alternate
    U.S. Route 72 Alternate is an auxiliary U.S. highway in northern Alabama that serves as an alternate east–west route to U.S. Route 72, connecting cities such as Decatur and Huntsville.
  • B. U.S. Route 1 Alternate
    U.S. Route 1 Alternate is a major auxiliary route of U.S. Route 1 in Maryland that serves local traffic through urban and suburban areas parallel to the main highway.
  • C. U.S. Route 27 Alternate
    U.S. Route 27 Alternate is an auxiliary U.S. highway that provides an alternate north–south route to U.S. Route 27 through parts of Georgia and neighboring states.
  • D. U.S. Route 400
    U.S. Route 400 is a major east–west U.S. Highway running across the central United States, primarily through Kansas and neighboring states, connecting numerous regional cities and transportation corridors.
  • E. U.S. Route 460
    U.S. Route 460 is a major east–west U.S. highway running through several states in the eastern United States, connecting communities in the Appalachian region to larger urban and transportation networks.
  • 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_69c68a618bdc81908d8018edadecd1a4 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f2c336308190932c14cec5eec25f completed March 27, 2026, 9:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d71c07da988190a4d0a50649cc6748 completed April 9, 2026, 3:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d71f76e3cc8190b21a5fe8825caa2b completed April 9, 2026, 3:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d7319938ec8190a4a1a5f09832e3e3 completed April 9, 2026, 4:56 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:11 p.m.