Triple

T11845534
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Portage Lake (Michigan) E281764 entity
Predicate connectedTo P37 FINISHED
Object Portage River (Keweenaw Waterway)
Portage River (Keweenaw Waterway) is a channel in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula that forms part of the Keweenaw Waterway, linking inland waters to Lake Superior and serving as an important local navigation route.
E297397 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: Portage River (Keweenaw Waterway) | Statement: [Portage Lake (Michigan), connectedTo, Portage River (Keweenaw Waterway)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portage River (Keweenaw Waterway)
Context triple: [Portage Lake (Michigan), connectedTo, Portage River (Keweenaw Waterway)]
  • A. Keweenaw Waterway
    The Keweenaw Waterway is a navigable canal and natural waterway system in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that cuts across the Keweenaw Peninsula, connecting Lake Superior’s north and south shores.
  • B. Pere Marquette River
    The Pere Marquette River is a scenic, free-flowing river in western Michigan renowned for its trout and salmon fishing, paddling opportunities, and largely undeveloped natural surroundings.
  • C. Saginaw River
    The Saginaw River is a major river in Michigan that drains a large portion of the state's Lower Peninsula and flows into Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron.
  • D. Manistee River
    The Manistee River is a major river in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, renowned for its scenic beauty, recreational opportunities like fishing and paddling, and its largely undeveloped, forested surroundings.
  • E. St. Clair River
    The St. Clair River is a major waterway forming part of the border between the United States and Canada, flowing south from Lake Huron toward Lake St. Clair as a key segment of the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Seaway.
  • 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: Portage River (Keweenaw Waterway)
Triple: [Portage Lake (Michigan), connectedTo, Portage River (Keweenaw Waterway)]
Generated description
Portage River (Keweenaw Waterway) is a channel in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula that forms part of the Keweenaw Waterway, linking inland waters to Lake Superior and serving as an important local navigation route.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portage River (Keweenaw Waterway)
Target entity description: Portage River (Keweenaw Waterway) is a channel in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula that forms part of the Keweenaw Waterway, linking inland waters to Lake Superior and serving as an important local navigation route.
  • A. Keweenaw Waterway chosen
    The Keweenaw Waterway is a navigable canal and natural waterway system in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that cuts across the Keweenaw Peninsula, connecting Lake Superior’s north and south shores.
  • B. Pere Marquette River
    The Pere Marquette River is a scenic, free-flowing river in western Michigan renowned for its trout and salmon fishing, paddling opportunities, and largely undeveloped natural surroundings.
  • C. Saginaw River
    The Saginaw River is a major river in Michigan that drains a large portion of the state's Lower Peninsula and flows into Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron.
  • D. Manistee River
    The Manistee River is a major river in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, renowned for its scenic beauty, recreational opportunities like fishing and paddling, and its largely undeveloped, forested surroundings.
  • E. St. Clair River
    The St. Clair River is a major waterway forming part of the border between the United States and Canada, flowing south from Lake Huron toward Lake St. Clair as a key segment of the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Seaway.
  • 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_69d6ab287ba48190a5178779fd19b9b7 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a65b5ff08190bb58361f6a6acdca completed April 10, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f43fb078148190bdd7f36c6b292670 completed May 1, 2026, 5:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f448f506a48190a0f1b89ad570fad5 completed May 1, 2026, 6:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f44ad185cc8190893cf663cfed6980 completed May 1, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:43 p.m.