Triple

T12839217
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rock Island County, Illinois E307002 entity
Predicate locatedIn P40 FINISHED
Object northwestern Illinois
Northwestern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois that encompasses areas along the Mississippi River and includes cities such as Rock Island and the surrounding Quad Cities metropolitan area.
E1012757 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: northwestern Illinois | Statement: [Rock Island County, Illinois, locatedIn, northwestern Illinois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: northwestern Illinois
Context triple: [Rock Island County, Illinois, locatedIn, northwestern Illinois]
  • A. northern Illinois
    Northern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois that includes the area around Rockford and the far north counties bordering Wisconsin.
  • B. Central Illinois
    Central Illinois is a predominantly rural and small-city region in the middle of the U.S. state of Illinois, characterized by its agricultural economy and mid-sized urban centers such as Peoria, Bloomington-Normal, and Champaign-Urbana.
  • C. Northeastern Illinois
    Northeastern Illinois is a metropolitan region of Illinois that includes the Chicago area and its surrounding counties, serving as a major hub for transportation, commerce, and culture in the Midwest.
  • D. eastern Illinois
    Eastern Illinois is the region comprising the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Illinois, bordering Indiana and encompassing a mix of agricultural areas, small cities, and college towns.
  • E. western Illinois
    Western Illinois is a predominantly rural region of Illinois characterized by small cities, agricultural communities, and its location along the Mississippi River opposite southeastern 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: northwestern Illinois
Triple: [Rock Island County, Illinois, locatedIn, northwestern Illinois]
Generated description
Northwestern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois that encompasses areas along the Mississippi River and includes cities such as Rock Island and the surrounding Quad Cities metropolitan area.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: northwestern Illinois
Target entity description: Northwestern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois that encompasses areas along the Mississippi River and includes cities such as Rock Island and the surrounding Quad Cities metropolitan area.
  • A. northern Illinois
    Northern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois that includes the area around Rockford and the far north counties bordering Wisconsin.
  • B. Central Illinois
    Central Illinois is a predominantly rural and small-city region in the middle of the U.S. state of Illinois, characterized by its agricultural economy and mid-sized urban centers such as Peoria, Bloomington-Normal, and Champaign-Urbana.
  • C. Northeastern Illinois
    Northeastern Illinois is a metropolitan region of Illinois that includes the Chicago area and its surrounding counties, serving as a major hub for transportation, commerce, and culture in the Midwest.
  • D. eastern Illinois
    Eastern Illinois is the region comprising the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Illinois, bordering Indiana and encompassing a mix of agricultural areas, small cities, and college towns.
  • E. western Illinois
    Western Illinois is a predominantly rural region of Illinois characterized by small cities, agricultural communities, and its location along the Mississippi River opposite southeastern 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_69d7bdf52b94819096d6f0ba4ab50a98 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96ff11b4481909fb2f92c46186853 completed April 10, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6b8c962f08190af7dee663a1d2319 completed May 3, 2026, 2:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6b9a1ca54819085da2ca592bf5219 completed May 3, 2026, 2:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6bb2602848190b9588134c71d0ef4 completed May 3, 2026, 3:04 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:35 p.m.