Triple

T77983
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States Environmental Protection Agency E1559 entity
Predicate oversightOf P636 FINISHED
Object National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System is a U.S. regulatory permitting program that controls water pollution by regulating point-source discharges of pollutants into waters of the United States.
E7317 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: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System | Statement: [United States Environmental Protection Agency, oversightOf, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
Context triple: [United States Environmental Protection Agency, oversightOf, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
    The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act is a U.S. federal law that governs the management, treatment, storage, and disposal of solid and hazardous waste to protect human health and the environment.
  • C. National Ambient Air Quality Standards
    The National Ambient Air Quality Standards are U.S. federal air pollution limits that set maximum allowable concentrations of key pollutants in outdoor air to protect public health and the environment.
  • D. Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
    The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement is a binational accord between the United States and Canada that establishes shared commitments and coordinated actions to protect and restore the water quality and ecosystem health of the Great Lakes.
  • E. United States Environmental Protection Agency
    The United States Environmental Protection Agency is a federal government agency responsible for protecting human health and the environment through regulation, enforcement, and environmental research in the United States.
  • 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: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
Triple: [United States Environmental Protection Agency, oversightOf, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System]
Generated description
The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System is a U.S. regulatory permitting program that controls water pollution by regulating point-source discharges of pollutants into waters of the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
Target entity description: The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System is a U.S. regulatory permitting program that controls water pollution by regulating point-source discharges of pollutants into waters of the United States.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
    The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act is a U.S. federal law that governs the management, treatment, storage, and disposal of solid and hazardous waste to protect human health and the environment.
  • C. National Ambient Air Quality Standards
    The National Ambient Air Quality Standards are U.S. federal air pollution limits that set maximum allowable concentrations of key pollutants in outdoor air to protect public health and the environment.
  • D. Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
    The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement is a binational accord between the United States and Canada that establishes shared commitments and coordinated actions to protect and restore the water quality and ecosystem health of the Great Lakes.
  • E. United States Environmental Protection Agency
    The United States Environmental Protection Agency is a federal government agency responsible for protecting human health and the environment through regulation, enforcement, and environmental research in the United States.
  • 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_69a24c60d19c8190a1b6c105ca59ef5b completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24f30e5848190a8edcb37c356ce0a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a25abc7b648190b8a83a05f4c76af0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a25caa409881909eb7dfe7d038cc39 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a25e287cc88190b2eb5ae02bd2f9d1 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:16 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:06 a.m.