Triple

T17571764
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lee County, Iowa E427956 entity
Predicate containsTown P847 FINISHED
Object Houghton, Iowa
Houghton, Iowa is a small rural city located in Lee County in the southeastern part of the state.
E1284316 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: Houghton, Iowa | Statement: [Lee County, Iowa, containsTown, Houghton, Iowa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Houghton, Iowa
Context triple: [Lee County, Iowa, containsTown, Houghton, Iowa]
  • A. Hudson, Iowa
    Hudson, Iowa is a small city in northeastern Iowa that functions as a suburban community within the Waterloo–Cedar Falls metropolitan area.
  • B. Humboldt, Iowa
    Humboldt, Iowa is a small city in north-central Iowa that serves as the county seat of Humboldt County and a local hub for agriculture and outdoor recreation.
  • C. Hancock, Iowa
    Hancock, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Pottawattamie County.
  • D. Horton, Iowa
    Horton, Iowa is a small unincorporated rural community located in Bremer County in northeastern Iowa.
  • E. Havelock, Iowa
    Havelock, Iowa is a small rural city in Pocahontas County in northwestern Iowa.
  • 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: Houghton, Iowa
Triple: [Lee County, Iowa, containsTown, Houghton, Iowa]
Generated description
Houghton, Iowa is a small rural city located in Lee County in the southeastern part of the state.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Houghton, Iowa
Target entity description: Houghton, Iowa is a small rural city located in Lee County in the southeastern part of the state.
  • A. Hudson, Iowa
    Hudson, Iowa is a small city in northeastern Iowa that functions as a suburban community within the Waterloo–Cedar Falls metropolitan area.
  • B. Humboldt, Iowa
    Humboldt, Iowa is a small city in north-central Iowa that serves as the county seat of Humboldt County and a local hub for agriculture and outdoor recreation.
  • C. Hancock, Iowa
    Hancock, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Pottawattamie County.
  • D. Horton, Iowa
    Horton, Iowa is a small unincorporated rural community located in Bremer County in northeastern Iowa.
  • E. Havelock, Iowa
    Havelock, Iowa is a small rural city in Pocahontas County in northwestern Iowa.
  • 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_69d889e0385081908a04b66f4dd4bd0d completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e459324aa48190ae23fcae6e8919f8 completed April 19, 2026, 4:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a02300f2eb88190b5faead6b15cd9b7 completed May 11, 2026, 7:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0231835c748190b6908d6ddb5f25b4 completed May 11, 2026, 7:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0232033f788190b0be2d3976ed57e4 completed May 11, 2026, 7:46 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:50 a.m.