Triple

T7737782
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rock Island, Illinois E175426 entity
Predicate borderedBy P224 FINISHED
Object Milan, Illinois
Milan, Illinois is a small village in Rock Island County that forms part of the Quad Cities metropolitan area in western Illinois.
E765483 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: Milan, Illinois | Statement: [Rock Island, Illinois, borderedBy, Milan, Illinois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Milan, Illinois
Context triple: [Rock Island, Illinois, borderedBy, Milan, Illinois]
  • A. Lombard, Illinois
    Lombard, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its historic Lilac Festival and residential character.
  • B. Mundelein, Illinois
    Mundelein, Illinois is a suburban village in Lake County known for its residential communities, parks, and commuter access to the Chicago metropolitan area.
  • C. Washington, Illinois
    Washington, Illinois is a small city in Tazewell County known as a residential community within the Peoria metropolitan area in central Illinois.
  • D. Joliet, Illinois
    Joliet, Illinois is a mid-sized city southwest of Chicago known for its historic prison, riverfront, and role as a regional industrial and transportation hub.
  • E. Metropolis, Illinois
    Metropolis, Illinois is a small city along the Ohio River best known as the officially designated "Hometown of Superman," featuring related attractions and tourism.
  • 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: Milan, Illinois
Triple: [Rock Island, Illinois, borderedBy, Milan, Illinois]
Generated description
Milan, Illinois is a small village in Rock Island County that forms part of the Quad Cities metropolitan area in western Illinois.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Milan, Illinois
Target entity description: Milan, Illinois is a small village in Rock Island County that forms part of the Quad Cities metropolitan area in western Illinois.
  • A. Lombard, Illinois
    Lombard, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its historic Lilac Festival and residential character.
  • B. Mundelein, Illinois
    Mundelein, Illinois is a suburban village in Lake County known for its residential communities, parks, and commuter access to the Chicago metropolitan area.
  • C. Washington, Illinois
    Washington, Illinois is a small city in Tazewell County known as a residential community within the Peoria metropolitan area in central Illinois.
  • D. Joliet, Illinois
    Joliet, Illinois is a mid-sized city southwest of Chicago known for its historic prison, riverfront, and role as a regional industrial and transportation hub.
  • E. Metropolis, Illinois
    Metropolis, Illinois is a small city along the Ohio River best known as the officially designated "Hometown of Superman," featuring related attractions and tourism.
  • 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_69c6995f9c60819092e386192bd63c6f completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c7035a97688190bf93efeee2e365ec completed March 27, 2026, 10:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfb9e1afb08190a1befb047ee96ca8 completed April 3, 2026, 1 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfbaeb3eec8190b027f59961c412b2 completed April 3, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfbb6235148190850865a734d55a6c completed April 3, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4:07 p.m.