Triple

T17447102
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject U.S. Route 24 E424813 entity
Predicate runsThroughCity P10456 FINISHED
Object Canton, Illinois
Canton, Illinois is a small city in Fulton County known historically for its manufacturing base and its location in west-central Illinois.
E1288873 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: Canton, Illinois | Statement: [U.S. Route 24, runsThroughCity, Canton, Illinois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Canton, Illinois
Context triple: [U.S. Route 24, runsThroughCity, Canton, Illinois]
  • A. Columbia, Illinois
    Columbia, Illinois is a small city in the St. Louis metropolitan area known for its historic German heritage and location along the Mississippi River in southwestern Illinois.
  • B. Hartford, Illinois
    Hartford, Illinois is a small village in Madison County known historically for its proximity to the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and its association with early American exploration and industry.
  • C. Columbus, Illinois
    Columbus, Illinois is a small village located in Adams County in western Illinois, United States.
  • D. Ottawa, Illinois
    Ottawa, Illinois is a historic city in northern Illinois known for its location at the confluence of the Fox and Illinois Rivers and as the site of the first Lincoln–Douglas debate.
  • E. Montgomery, Illinois
    Montgomery, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area spanning Kane and Kendall counties along the Fox River.
  • 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: Canton, Illinois
Triple: [U.S. Route 24, runsThroughCity, Canton, Illinois]
Generated description
Canton, Illinois is a small city in Fulton County known historically for its manufacturing base and its location in west-central Illinois.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Canton, Illinois
Target entity description: Canton, Illinois is a small city in Fulton County known historically for its manufacturing base and its location in west-central Illinois.
  • A. Columbia, Illinois
    Columbia, Illinois is a small city in the St. Louis metropolitan area known for its historic German heritage and location along the Mississippi River in southwestern Illinois.
  • B. Hartford, Illinois
    Hartford, Illinois is a small village in Madison County known historically for its proximity to the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and its association with early American exploration and industry.
  • C. Columbus, Illinois
    Columbus, Illinois is a small village located in Adams County in western Illinois, United States.
  • D. Ottawa, Illinois
    Ottawa, Illinois is a historic city in northern Illinois known for its location at the confluence of the Fox and Illinois Rivers and as the site of the first Lincoln–Douglas debate.
  • E. Montgomery, Illinois
    Montgomery, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area spanning Kane and Kendall counties along the Fox River.
  • 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_69d889db0ba481908402409af3b37917 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e44ffc89e4819096372cc55b40cc3b completed April 19, 2026, 3:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a02ff48dc808190aa571c2573e0a921 completed May 12, 2026, 10:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a02fffa54ac8190a3bf90c827e56329 completed May 12, 2026, 10:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03009e9ff48190a0762d4d537f4cc7 completed May 12, 2026, 10:27 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:47 a.m.