Triple

T797625
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kane County, Illinois E17057 entity
Predicate bordersCounty P6346 FINISHED
Object DeKalb County, Illinois
DeKalb County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in northern Illinois known for its agricultural heritage and as the home of Northern Illinois University in the city of DeKalb.
E104299 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: DeKalb County, Illinois | Statement: [Kane County, Illinois, bordersCounty, DeKalb County, Illinois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: DeKalb County, Illinois
Context triple: [Kane County, Illinois, bordersCounty, DeKalb County, Illinois]
  • A. DuPage County, Illinois
    DuPage County, Illinois is a suburban county west of Chicago known for its affluent communities, extensive forest preserves, and role as a major component of the Chicago metropolitan area.
  • B. DeKalb County
    DeKalb County is a populous county in the Atlanta metropolitan area of Georgia, known for its diverse communities, major transportation corridors, and institutions such as Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  • C. McHenry County, Illinois
    McHenry County, Illinois is a suburban county in northeastern Illinois that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
  • D. LaSalle County, Illinois
    LaSalle County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in north-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and historical sites dating back to early 19th-century settlement.
  • E. Champaign County, Illinois
    Champaign County, Illinois is a county in east-central Illinois known for encompassing the cities of Champaign and Urbana and being home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • 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: DeKalb County, Illinois
Triple: [Kane County, Illinois, bordersCounty, DeKalb County, Illinois]
Generated description
DeKalb County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in northern Illinois known for its agricultural heritage and as the home of Northern Illinois University in the city of DeKalb.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: DeKalb County, Illinois
Target entity description: DeKalb County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in northern Illinois known for its agricultural heritage and as the home of Northern Illinois University in the city of DeKalb.
  • A. DuPage County, Illinois
    DuPage County, Illinois is a suburban county west of Chicago known for its affluent communities, extensive forest preserves, and role as a major component of the Chicago metropolitan area.
  • B. DeKalb County
    DeKalb County is a populous county in the Atlanta metropolitan area of Georgia, known for its diverse communities, major transportation corridors, and institutions such as Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  • C. McHenry County, Illinois
    McHenry County, Illinois is a suburban county in northeastern Illinois that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
  • D. LaSalle County, Illinois
    LaSalle County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in north-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and historical sites dating back to early 19th-century settlement.
  • E. Champaign County, Illinois
    Champaign County, Illinois is a county in east-central Illinois known for encompassing the cities of Champaign and Urbana and being home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • 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_69a49378b9c48190adbf5f62e5b7aca1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a7b342888190a344fe81a2c9f33c completed March 1, 2026, 8:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7b83f0fb4819097f29c9ab90cf1a8 completed March 4, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7bc1acf708190aa86cd5eca101966 completed March 4, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7bc96dd2881909310147292b99023 completed March 4, 2026, 5:01 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.