Triple

T1127293
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Champaign County, Illinois E24747 entity
Predicate borderedBy P224 FINISHED
Object McLean County, Illinois
McLean County, Illinois is a largely rural county in central Illinois known for its agricultural economy and the city of Bloomington as its county seat.
E177327 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: McLean County, Illinois | Statement: [Champaign County, Illinois, borderedBy, McLean County, Illinois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McLean County, Illinois
Context triple: [Champaign County, Illinois, borderedBy, McLean County, Illinois]
  • A. Champaign County, Illinois
    Champaign County, Illinois is a county in east-central Illinois known for encompassing the cities of Champaign and Urbana and being home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • B. Douglas County, Illinois
    Douglas County, Illinois is a small, predominantly rural county in east-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as Tuscola, its county seat.
  • C. Sangamon County, Illinois
    Sangamon County, Illinois is a central Illinois county whose seat and largest city is Springfield, the state capital and home to numerous Abraham Lincoln historic sites.
  • D. Kane County, Illinois
    Kane County, Illinois is a suburban county west of Chicago that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
  • E. McHenry County, Illinois
    McHenry County, Illinois is a suburban county in northeastern Illinois that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
  • 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: McLean County, Illinois
Triple: [Champaign County, Illinois, borderedBy, McLean County, Illinois]
Generated description
McLean County, Illinois is a largely rural county in central Illinois known for its agricultural economy and the city of Bloomington as its county seat.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McLean County, Illinois
Target entity description: McLean County, Illinois is a largely rural county in central Illinois known for its agricultural economy and the city of Bloomington as its county seat.
  • A. Champaign County, Illinois
    Champaign County, Illinois is a county in east-central Illinois known for encompassing the cities of Champaign and Urbana and being home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • B. Douglas County, Illinois
    Douglas County, Illinois is a small, predominantly rural county in east-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as Tuscola, its county seat.
  • C. Sangamon County, Illinois
    Sangamon County, Illinois is a central Illinois county whose seat and largest city is Springfield, the state capital and home to numerous Abraham Lincoln historic sites.
  • D. Kane County, Illinois
    Kane County, Illinois is a suburban county west of Chicago that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
  • E. McHenry County, Illinois
    McHenry County, Illinois is a suburban county in northeastern Illinois that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
  • 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_69a4940712c88190aa244f3fc6070a65 completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bbdd39b88190bf46de38818fe2df completed March 1, 2026, 10:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad36f2940c81908bea3f0242d2d734 completed March 8, 2026, 8:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad38296b1481909a09e422ef5b7513 completed March 8, 2026, 8:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad38af38c08190a98462574abe3063 completed March 8, 2026, 8:51 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.