Triple

T18612851
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marion County, Illinois E454941 entity
Predicate locatedIn P40 FINISHED
Object south-central Illinois
South-central Illinois is a largely rural region of the state characterized by small towns, agriculture, and mid-sized communities between the St. Louis metro area and the more urbanized north.
E1334014 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: south-central Illinois | Statement: [Marion County, Illinois, locatedIn, south-central Illinois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: south-central Illinois
Context triple: [Marion County, Illinois, locatedIn, south-central Illinois]
  • A. West-Central Illinois
    West-Central Illinois is a largely rural region of Illinois characterized by small cities, agricultural communities, and its location along the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers.
  • B. north-central Illinois
    North-central Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois characterized by mid-sized industrial and agricultural communities situated between the Chicago metropolitan area and the state’s western and central rural areas.
  • C. Central Illinois
    Central Illinois is a predominantly rural and small-city region in the middle of the U.S. state of Illinois, characterized by its agricultural economy and mid-sized urban centers such as Peoria, Bloomington-Normal, and Champaign-Urbana.
  • D. Southwestern Illinois
    Southwestern Illinois is a region of Illinois just east of St. Louis, Missouri, encompassing several suburban and rural communities in the Metro East area.
  • E. southern Illinois
    Southern Illinois is a predominantly rural region of the U.S. state of Illinois known for its small towns, agricultural economy, and cultural ties to the neighboring Midwestern and Southern states.
  • 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: south-central Illinois
Triple: [Marion County, Illinois, locatedIn, south-central Illinois]
Generated description
South-central Illinois is a largely rural region of the state characterized by small towns, agriculture, and mid-sized communities between the St. Louis metro area and the more urbanized north.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: south-central Illinois
Target entity description: South-central Illinois is a largely rural region of the state characterized by small towns, agriculture, and mid-sized communities between the St. Louis metro area and the more urbanized north.
  • A. West-Central Illinois
    West-Central Illinois is a largely rural region of Illinois characterized by small cities, agricultural communities, and its location along the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers.
  • B. north-central Illinois
    North-central Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois characterized by mid-sized industrial and agricultural communities situated between the Chicago metropolitan area and the state’s western and central rural areas.
  • C. Central Illinois
    Central Illinois is a predominantly rural and small-city region in the middle of the U.S. state of Illinois, characterized by its agricultural economy and mid-sized urban centers such as Peoria, Bloomington-Normal, and Champaign-Urbana.
  • D. Southwestern Illinois
    Southwestern Illinois is a region of Illinois just east of St. Louis, Missouri, encompassing several suburban and rural communities in the Metro East area.
  • E. southern Illinois
    Southern Illinois is a predominantly rural region of the U.S. state of Illinois known for its small towns, agricultural economy, and cultural ties to the neighboring Midwestern and Southern states.
  • 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_69d8d38bbe7c8190bdec3138e7d413c9 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e54d030d488190a992d10d3d28b4ad completed April 19, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05038c4d408190acb54ceaeaf470c5 completed May 13, 2026, 11:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05065fcdd8819083644c9bceb556c9 completed May 13, 2026, 11:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0506f2ff9c81909995a299641c6c37 completed May 13, 2026, 11:19 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:45 a.m.