Triple

T17734675
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shelby County, Illinois E442681 entity
Predicate hasSettlement P1068 FINISHED
Object Cowden, Illinois
Cowden, Illinois is a small rural village located in Shelby County in the central part of the state.
E1285567 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: Cowden, Illinois | Statement: [Shelby County, Illinois, hasSettlement, Cowden, Illinois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cowden, Illinois
Context triple: [Shelby County, Illinois, hasSettlement, Cowden, Illinois]
  • A. Kincaid, Illinois
    Kincaid, Illinois is a small village located in central Illinois within the Springfield metropolitan area.
  • B. Bonfield, Illinois
    Bonfield, Illinois is a small village in Kankakee County that forms part of the Kankakee metropolitan area in northeastern Illinois.
  • C. Ivesdale, Illinois
    Ivesdale, Illinois is a small rural village located in central Illinois within Champaign County.
  • D. Cadwell, Illinois
    Cadwell, Illinois is a small unincorporated rural community located in Moultrie County in east-central Illinois.
  • E. Lovelock, Illinois
    Lovelock, Illinois is a small unincorporated rural community located within Moultrie County in the U.S. state of Illinois.
  • 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: Cowden, Illinois
Triple: [Shelby County, Illinois, hasSettlement, Cowden, Illinois]
Generated description
Cowden, Illinois is a small rural village located in Shelby County in the central part of the state.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cowden, Illinois
Target entity description: Cowden, Illinois is a small rural village located in Shelby County in the central part of the state.
  • A. Kincaid, Illinois
    Kincaid, Illinois is a small village located in central Illinois within the Springfield metropolitan area.
  • B. Bonfield, Illinois
    Bonfield, Illinois is a small village in Kankakee County that forms part of the Kankakee metropolitan area in northeastern Illinois.
  • C. Ivesdale, Illinois
    Ivesdale, Illinois is a small rural village located in central Illinois within Champaign County.
  • D. Cadwell, Illinois
    Cadwell, Illinois is a small unincorporated rural community located in Moultrie County in east-central Illinois.
  • E. Lovelock, Illinois
    Lovelock, Illinois is a small unincorporated rural community located within Moultrie County in the U.S. state of Illinois.
  • 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_69d8b9ed3a2081909b2ec0d4dd2f4c37 completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e478e98a00819089490be2aa36873d completed April 19, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0242f775c88190b0aa341ec23bad73 completed May 11, 2026, 8:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0246d15ae081908b43138fb91c3ccd completed May 11, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a02473e08848190ac9b219996169df3 completed May 11, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:08 a.m.