Triple

T7504908
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject North Carolina Highway 18 E177362 entity
Predicate connectsCity P4245 FINISHED
Object Wilkesboro, North Carolina
Wilkesboro, North Carolina is a small town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains known as the county seat of Wilkes County and for hosting the annual MerleFest music festival.
E669267 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: Wilkesboro, North Carolina | Statement: [North Carolina Highway 18, connectsCity, Wilkesboro, North Carolina]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wilkesboro, North Carolina
Context triple: [North Carolina Highway 18, connectsCity, Wilkesboro, North Carolina]
  • A. North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
    North Wilkesboro, North Carolina is a small town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains known for its historic NASCAR speedway and scenic setting near the Yadkin River.
  • B. Butner, North Carolina
    Butner, North Carolina is a small town in central North Carolina known for its correctional and mental health facilities and its location within the Research Triangle region.
  • C. Randleman, North Carolina
    Randleman, North Carolina is a small city in the Piedmont region known historically for its textile industry and as the hometown of NASCAR legend Richard Petty.
  • D. Weldon, North Carolina
    Weldon, North Carolina is a small historic town in Halifax County known for its location along the Roanoke River and its past significance as a transportation and railroad hub.
  • E. Winston, North Carolina
    Winston, North Carolina was a former town in Forsyth County that later became part of the city of Winston-Salem through consolidation with the neighboring town of Salem.
  • 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: Wilkesboro, North Carolina
Triple: [North Carolina Highway 18, connectsCity, Wilkesboro, North Carolina]
Generated description
Wilkesboro, North Carolina is a small town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains known as the county seat of Wilkes County and for hosting the annual MerleFest music festival.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wilkesboro, North Carolina
Target entity description: Wilkesboro, North Carolina is a small town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains known as the county seat of Wilkes County and for hosting the annual MerleFest music festival.
  • A. North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
    North Wilkesboro, North Carolina is a small town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains known for its historic NASCAR speedway and scenic setting near the Yadkin River.
  • B. Butner, North Carolina
    Butner, North Carolina is a small town in central North Carolina known for its correctional and mental health facilities and its location within the Research Triangle region.
  • C. Randleman, North Carolina
    Randleman, North Carolina is a small city in the Piedmont region known historically for its textile industry and as the hometown of NASCAR legend Richard Petty.
  • D. Weldon, North Carolina
    Weldon, North Carolina is a small historic town in Halifax County known for its location along the Roanoke River and its past significance as a transportation and railroad hub.
  • E. Winston, North Carolina
    Winston, North Carolina was a former town in Forsyth County that later became part of the city of Winston-Salem through consolidation with the neighboring town of Salem.
  • 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_69c69f2696688190915a8458f2398211 completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f5b4c83c8190ace59f4d9e271904 completed March 27, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c83c9dcc2881908eea4efe075e894d completed March 28, 2026, 8:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c83e7b2ab08190a5ecb9b87af067a5 completed March 28, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c842bad1e8819093bf61d9480dbd22 completed March 28, 2026, 9:06 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:44 p.m.