Triple

T8525209
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mecosta County, Michigan E201796 entity
Predicate hasTownship P22464 FINISHED
Object Deerfield Township, Michigan
Deerfield Township, Michigan is a rural civil township located within Mecosta County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
E748089 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: Deerfield Township, Michigan | Statement: [Mecosta County, Michigan, hasTownship, Deerfield Township, Michigan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Deerfield Township, Michigan
Context triple: [Mecosta County, Michigan, hasTownship, Deerfield Township, Michigan]
  • A. Plainfield Charter Township, Michigan
    Plainfield Charter Township, Michigan is a charter township in Kent County, just north of Grand Rapids, that includes suburban communities such as Comstock Park.
  • B. Lansing Township, Michigan
    Lansing Township, Michigan is a charter township located adjacent to the city of Lansing in central Michigan, functioning as a suburban community within the Lansing metropolitan area.
  • C. Dallas Township, Michigan
    Dallas Township, Michigan is a small rural civil township located within Clinton County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
  • D. Northfield Township, Michigan
    Northfield Township, Michigan is a primarily rural residential community in southeastern Michigan known for its lakes, parks, and proximity to the city of Ann Arbor.
  • E. Greenfield Township, Michigan
    Greenfield Township, Michigan was a former township in Wayne County best known as the birthplace of industrialist and automobile pioneer Henry Ford.
  • 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: Deerfield Township, Michigan
Triple: [Mecosta County, Michigan, hasTownship, Deerfield Township, Michigan]
Generated description
Deerfield Township, Michigan is a rural civil township located within Mecosta County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Deerfield Township, Michigan
Target entity description: Deerfield Township, Michigan is a rural civil township located within Mecosta County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
  • A. Plainfield Charter Township, Michigan
    Plainfield Charter Township, Michigan is a charter township in Kent County, just north of Grand Rapids, that includes suburban communities such as Comstock Park.
  • B. Lansing Township, Michigan
    Lansing Township, Michigan is a charter township located adjacent to the city of Lansing in central Michigan, functioning as a suburban community within the Lansing metropolitan area.
  • C. Dallas Township, Michigan
    Dallas Township, Michigan is a small rural civil township located within Clinton County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
  • D. Northfield Township, Michigan
    Northfield Township, Michigan is a primarily rural residential community in southeastern Michigan known for its lakes, parks, and proximity to the city of Ann Arbor.
  • E. Greenfield Township, Michigan
    Greenfield Township, Michigan was a former township in Wayne County best known as the birthplace of industrialist and automobile pioneer Henry Ford.
  • 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_69ca83228b24819085d22e7dc99f5d94 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe644c4648190a14dcaeaa90d72c7 completed March 31, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cebb6855ec8190a85e5afeb656ee7d completed April 2, 2026, 6:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cebc9d4ca88190942c333806181b55 completed April 2, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cec0a9c39c8190a7bcecc6927b98f0 completed April 2, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:16 p.m.