Triple

T7678996
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Houston County, Alabama E173939 entity
Predicate hasCity P316 FINISHED
Object Ashford, Alabama
Ashford, Alabama is a small city in southeastern Alabama that forms part of the Dothan metropolitan area and is known for its rural character and agricultural surroundings.
E691854 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: Ashford, Alabama | Statement: [Houston County, Alabama, hasCity, Ashford, Alabama]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ashford, Alabama
Context triple: [Houston County, Alabama, hasCity, Ashford, Alabama]
  • A. Ashland, Alabama
    Ashland, Alabama is a small city in Clay County that serves as the county seat and lies in east-central Alabama.
  • B. Ashville, Alabama
    Ashville, Alabama is a small historic town in central Alabama that serves as one of the two county seats of St. Clair County.
  • C. Safford, Alabama
    Safford, Alabama is a small unincorporated rural community located in Dallas County in the central part of the state.
  • D. Ardmore, Alabama
    Ardmore, Alabama is a small town in northern Alabama known for straddling the state line with Tennessee and serving as a local crossroads community.
  • E. Fairfield, Alabama
    Fairfield, Alabama is a small city in Jefferson County that functions as a residential and industrial suburb of Birmingham within central Alabama.
  • 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: Ashford, Alabama
Triple: [Houston County, Alabama, hasCity, Ashford, Alabama]
Generated description
Ashford, Alabama is a small city in southeastern Alabama that forms part of the Dothan metropolitan area and is known for its rural character and agricultural surroundings.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ashford, Alabama
Target entity description: Ashford, Alabama is a small city in southeastern Alabama that forms part of the Dothan metropolitan area and is known for its rural character and agricultural surroundings.
  • A. Ashland, Alabama
    Ashland, Alabama is a small city in Clay County that serves as the county seat and lies in east-central Alabama.
  • B. Ashville, Alabama
    Ashville, Alabama is a small historic town in central Alabama that serves as one of the two county seats of St. Clair County.
  • C. Safford, Alabama
    Safford, Alabama is a small unincorporated rural community located in Dallas County in the central part of the state.
  • D. Ardmore, Alabama
    Ardmore, Alabama is a small town in northern Alabama known for straddling the state line with Tennessee and serving as a local crossroads community.
  • E. Fairfield, Alabama
    Fairfield, Alabama is a small city in Jefferson County that functions as a residential and industrial suburb of Birmingham within central Alabama.
  • 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_69c6995703e0819081de77361b602e78 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c701fe2cc88190b5fd5e1378c32e5b completed March 27, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c9bcbe7f488190aee034a51e8a281b completed March 29, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c9bd2305a481909ac1ce38edf50650 completed March 30, 2026, midnight
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c9bdbf97188190a0a97d8a832f54f4 completed March 30, 2026, 12:03 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4:01 p.m.