Triple

T820545
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alabama E17742 entity
Predicate containsCity P294 FINISHED
Object Decatur
Decatur is a city in northern Alabama known for its location along the Tennessee River and its role as an industrial and transportation hub.
E213486 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: Decatur | Statement: [Alabama, containsCity, Decatur]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Decatur
Context triple: [Alabama, containsCity, Decatur]
  • A. Decatur, Illinois
    Decatur, Illinois is a mid-sized industrial and agricultural city in central Illinois known historically for manufacturing, agribusiness, and its location along Lake Decatur.
  • B. DeKalb
    DeKalb is a city in northern Illinois known for hosting Northern Illinois University and having historical ties to agriculture and barbed wire manufacturing.
  • C. Peoria
    Peoria is a suburban city in the Phoenix metropolitan area of central Arizona, known for its rapid growth, residential communities, and recreational amenities.
  • D. Oakton
    Oakton is a suburban community in Fairfax County, Northern Virginia, known for its residential neighborhoods, good schools, and proximity to Washington, D.C.
  • E. Arlington Heights
    Arlington Heights is the elevated landform in Arlington, Virginia, that overlooks Washington, D.C. and serves as the site of Arlington National Cemetery and the former Arlington House estate.
  • 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: Decatur
Triple: [Alabama, containsCity, Decatur]
Generated description
Decatur is a city in northern Alabama known for its location along the Tennessee River and its role as an industrial and transportation hub.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Decatur
Target entity description: Decatur is a city in northern Alabama known for its location along the Tennessee River and its role as an industrial and transportation hub.
  • A. Decatur, Illinois
    Decatur, Illinois is a mid-sized industrial and agricultural city in central Illinois known historically for manufacturing, agribusiness, and its location along Lake Decatur.
  • B. DeKalb
    DeKalb is a city in northern Illinois known for hosting Northern Illinois University and having historical ties to agriculture and barbed wire manufacturing.
  • C. Peoria
    Peoria is a suburban city in the Phoenix metropolitan area of central Arizona, known for its rapid growth, residential communities, and recreational amenities.
  • D. Oakton
    Oakton is a suburban community in Fairfax County, Northern Virginia, known for its residential neighborhoods, good schools, and proximity to Washington, D.C.
  • E. Arlington Heights
    Arlington Heights is the elevated landform in Arlington, Virginia, that overlooks Washington, D.C. and serves as the site of Arlington National Cemetery and the former Arlington House estate.
  • 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_69a4937bcaac8190a322524ac6f45a5a completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ab6698d881908d8c5d91259f97ec completed March 1, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adeab03e388190b7b5c7c5802bf3c1 completed March 8, 2026, 9:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adeb8a0a64819087e4505089e93093 completed March 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adec6fcaac8190b43d0cd1aa613c95 completed March 8, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.