Triple

T10519977
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Livingston County, Michigan E248139 entity
Predicate hasTownship P22464 FINISHED
Object Howell Township, Michigan
Howell Township, Michigan is a civil township in Livingston County known for its mix of suburban neighborhoods, rural landscapes, and proximity to the city of Howell in southeastern Michigan.
E868543 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: Howell Township, Michigan | Statement: [Livingston County, Michigan, hasTownship, Howell Township, Michigan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howell Township, Michigan
Context triple: [Livingston County, Michigan, hasTownship, Howell Township, Michigan]
  • A. Howell, Michigan
    Howell, Michigan is a small city in southeastern Michigan known as a historic community and commercial hub along the I-96 corridor between Lansing and Detroit.
  • B. Lowell Township, Michigan
    Lowell Township, Michigan is a civil township in Kent County known for its mix of rural landscapes, residential communities, and proximity to the Grand River and the city of Lowell.
  • C. Houghton Township, Michigan
    Houghton Township, Michigan is a small, sparsely populated civil township located on the Keweenaw Peninsula in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, known for its remote wilderness and Lake Superior shoreline.
  • D. Lansing Township, Michigan
    Lansing Township, Michigan is a charter township located adjacent to the city of Lansing in central Michigan, functioning as a suburban community within the Lansing metropolitan area.
  • E. Washington Township, Michigan
    Washington Township, Michigan is a suburban community in Macomb County known for its blend of residential neighborhoods, rural landscapes, and proximity to the village of Romeo.
  • 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: Howell Township, Michigan
Triple: [Livingston County, Michigan, hasTownship, Howell Township, Michigan]
Generated description
Howell Township, Michigan is a civil township in Livingston County known for its mix of suburban neighborhoods, rural landscapes, and proximity to the city of Howell in southeastern Michigan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howell Township, Michigan
Target entity description: Howell Township, Michigan is a civil township in Livingston County known for its mix of suburban neighborhoods, rural landscapes, and proximity to the city of Howell in southeastern Michigan.
  • A. Howell, Michigan chosen
    Howell, Michigan is a small city in southeastern Michigan known as a historic community and commercial hub along the I-96 corridor between Lansing and Detroit.
  • B. Lowell Township, Michigan
    Lowell Township, Michigan is a civil township in Kent County known for its mix of rural landscapes, residential communities, and proximity to the Grand River and the city of Lowell.
  • C. Houghton Township, Michigan
    Houghton Township, Michigan is a small, sparsely populated civil township located on the Keweenaw Peninsula in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, known for its remote wilderness and Lake Superior shoreline.
  • D. Lansing Township, Michigan
    Lansing Township, Michigan is a charter township located adjacent to the city of Lansing in central Michigan, functioning as a suburban community within the Lansing metropolitan area.
  • E. Washington Township, Michigan
    Washington Township, Michigan is a suburban community in Macomb County known for its blend of residential neighborhoods, rural landscapes, and proximity to the village of Romeo.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d381c4aa948190942e1d803143fb0e completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d509de0b3081909bec337aa8ff193e completed April 7, 2026, 1:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d97a05ffdc8190a69b39c807a06042 completed April 10, 2026, 10:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d97cc07100819088683a0d79b2baa0 completed April 10, 2026, 10:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d97e015b088190a97822675eecaa5a completed April 10, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:28 p.m.