Triple

T12756304
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ann Arbor metropolitan area E304868 entity
Predicate containsTownship P847 FINISHED
Object Sylvan Township
Sylvan Township is a civil township in Washtenaw County, Michigan, functioning as a suburban-rural community within the Ann Arbor metropolitan area.
E1040498 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: Sylvan Township | Statement: [Ann Arbor metropolitan area, containsTownship, Sylvan Township]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sylvan Township
Context triple: [Ann Arbor metropolitan area, containsTownship, Sylvan Township]
  • A. Sylvania Township
    Sylvania Township is a suburban township in northwest Ohio that serves as a residential and commercial community within the Toledo metropolitan area.
  • B. Landis Township
    Landis Township was a former municipality in Cumberland County, New Jersey, that was eventually incorporated into the city of Vineland.
  • C. Laird Township
    Laird Township is a small rural municipality in Ontario, Canada, located near Sault Ste. Marie in the Algoma District.
  • D. Hilliard Township
    Hilliard Township is a small rural municipality located within Ontario’s Timiskaming District in Canada.
  • E. Sheridan Township
    Sheridan Township is a rural civil township located within Poweshiek County in the U.S. state of Iowa.
  • 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: Sylvan Township
Triple: [Ann Arbor metropolitan area, containsTownship, Sylvan Township]
Generated description
Sylvan Township is a civil township in Washtenaw County, Michigan, functioning as a suburban-rural community within the Ann Arbor metropolitan area.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sylvan Township
Target entity description: Sylvan Township is a civil township in Washtenaw County, Michigan, functioning as a suburban-rural community within the Ann Arbor metropolitan area.
  • A. Sylvania Township
    Sylvania Township is a suburban township in northwest Ohio that serves as a residential and commercial community within the Toledo metropolitan area.
  • B. Landis Township
    Landis Township was a former municipality in Cumberland County, New Jersey, that was eventually incorporated into the city of Vineland.
  • C. Laird Township
    Laird Township is a small rural municipality in Ontario, Canada, located near Sault Ste. Marie in the Algoma District.
  • D. Hilliard Township
    Hilliard Township is a small rural municipality located within Ontario’s Timiskaming District in Canada.
  • E. Sheridan Township
    Sheridan Township is a rural civil township located within Poweshiek County in the U.S. state of Iowa.
  • 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_69d7bdf1fcd081909ffb0e0d6fa3a07d completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96d8b57b88190b29b8fdca415c81c completed April 10, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f739688734819092b14bd3edacd4ef completed May 3, 2026, 12:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f73ba2ae5c8190a17c71ce0df0eaf4 completed May 3, 2026, 12:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f73bdb099c8190a90654709d33ccbf completed May 3, 2026, 12:13 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:27 p.m.