Triple

T12780311
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Berrien County, Michigan E305487 entity
Predicate containsTownship P847 FINISHED
Object Royalton Township, Michigan
Royalton Township, Michigan is a civil township located in Berrien County in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Michigan.
E1038672 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: Royalton Township, Michigan | Statement: [Berrien County, Michigan, containsTownship, Royalton Township, Michigan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Royalton Township, Michigan
Context triple: [Berrien County, Michigan, containsTownship, Royalton Township, Michigan]
  • A. Royal Oak Township, Michigan
    Royal Oak Township, Michigan is a small, predominantly residential charter township in Oakland County within the Detroit metropolitan area.
  • B. Newton Township, Michigan
    Newton Township, Michigan is a small civil township located in Calhoun County in the south-central region of the state.
  • C. Northville Township, Michigan
    Northville Township, Michigan is a suburban charter township in southeastern Michigan known for its residential communities, parks, and proximity to the Detroit metropolitan area.
  • D. Brownstown Township, Michigan
    Brownstown Township, Michigan is a suburban community in southeastern Michigan that forms part of the Downriver area near Detroit.
  • E. Berrien Township, Michigan
    Berrien Township, Michigan is a rural civil township in Berrien County known for its agricultural landscape and small-community character 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: Royalton Township, Michigan
Triple: [Berrien County, Michigan, containsTownship, Royalton Township, Michigan]
Generated description
Royalton Township, Michigan is a civil township located in Berrien County in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Michigan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Royalton Township, Michigan
Target entity description: Royalton Township, Michigan is a civil township located in Berrien County in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Michigan.
  • A. Royal Oak Township, Michigan
    Royal Oak Township, Michigan is a small, predominantly residential charter township in Oakland County within the Detroit metropolitan area.
  • B. Newton Township, Michigan
    Newton Township, Michigan is a small civil township located in Calhoun County in the south-central region of the state.
  • C. Northville Township, Michigan
    Northville Township, Michigan is a suburban charter township in southeastern Michigan known for its residential communities, parks, and proximity to the Detroit metropolitan area.
  • D. Brownstown Township, Michigan
    Brownstown Township, Michigan is a suburban community in southeastern Michigan that forms part of the Downriver area near Detroit.
  • E. Berrien Township, Michigan
    Berrien Township, Michigan is a rural civil township in Berrien County known for its agricultural landscape and small-community character 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_69d7bdf2b43c819098ae5aa68e61ea58 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96e5a5680819095dcd491486d23e7 completed April 10, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7304f62288190aa7788fc6fb04254 completed May 3, 2026, 11:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7316101e48190b3ec59a4376a0562 completed May 3, 2026, 11:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f731f8e98c8190becfad8e3a371484 completed May 3, 2026, 11:31 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:29 p.m.