Triple

T21388630
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pickens County, Alabama E527577 entity
Predicate containsSettlement P847 FINISHED
Object McShan, Alabama
McShan, Alabama is a small unincorporated community located in rural western Alabama within Pickens County.
E1518859 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: McShan, Alabama | Statement: [Pickens County, Alabama, containsSettlement, McShan, Alabama]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McShan, Alabama
Context triple: [Pickens County, Alabama, containsSettlement, McShan, Alabama]
  • A. McIntosh, Alabama
    McIntosh, Alabama is a small town in southwestern Alabama known for its industrial facilities and location along the Tombigbee River.
  • B. Straughn, Alabama
    Straughn, Alabama is a small unincorporated rural community located in Covington County in the southern part of the state.
  • C. Morris, Alabama
    Morris, Alabama is a small town in central Alabama that forms part of the Birmingham metropolitan area.
  • D. McCalla, Alabama
    McCalla, Alabama is an unincorporated community in Jefferson and Tuscaloosa counties known for its suburban character and proximity to Birmingham and historic sites like Tannehill Ironworks.
  • E. Vashti, Alabama
    Vashti, Alabama is an unincorporated rural community located in Clarke County in the southwestern part of the state.
  • 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: McShan, Alabama
Triple: [Pickens County, Alabama, containsSettlement, McShan, Alabama]
Generated description
McShan, Alabama is a small unincorporated community located in rural western Alabama within Pickens County.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McShan, Alabama
Target entity description: McShan, Alabama is a small unincorporated community located in rural western Alabama within Pickens County.
  • A. McIntosh, Alabama
    McIntosh, Alabama is a small town in southwestern Alabama known for its industrial facilities and location along the Tombigbee River.
  • B. Straughn, Alabama
    Straughn, Alabama is a small unincorporated rural community located in Covington County in the southern part of the state.
  • C. Morris, Alabama
    Morris, Alabama is a small town in central Alabama that forms part of the Birmingham metropolitan area.
  • D. McCalla, Alabama
    McCalla, Alabama is an unincorporated community in Jefferson and Tuscaloosa counties known for its suburban character and proximity to Birmingham and historic sites like Tannehill Ironworks.
  • E. Vashti, Alabama
    Vashti, Alabama is an unincorporated rural community located in Clarke County in the southwestern part of the state.
  • 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_69e0b51ff3748190935c0a513c62a12b completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e8b0f6ce4c81909da915139610a2a7 completed April 22, 2026, 11:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a8783c71081909c0142c93434f7e0 completed May 18, 2026, 3:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a88833f188190ad27a179b7bdf829 completed May 18, 2026, 3:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a8901941c8190945a96d7f5578362 completed May 18, 2026, 3:35 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 5:12 p.m.