Triple

T12909690
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mercer County, Illinois E308820 entity
Predicate containsSettlement P847 FINISHED
Object New Boston, Illinois
New Boston, Illinois is a small city situated along the Mississippi River in Mercer County in western Illinois.
E1009179 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: New Boston, Illinois | Statement: [Mercer County, Illinois, containsSettlement, New Boston, Illinois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New Boston, Illinois
Context triple: [Mercer County, Illinois, containsSettlement, New Boston, Illinois]
  • A. New Boston, Indiana
    New Boston, Indiana is an unincorporated rural community located in Perry County in the southern part of the U.S. state of Indiana.
  • B. New Berlin, Illinois
    New Berlin, Illinois is a small village in central Illinois located just west of Springfield in Sangamon County.
  • C. Newman, Illinois
    Newman, Illinois is a small rural city located in east-central Illinois within Douglas County.
  • D. New City, Chicago
    New City is a community area on Chicago’s South Side that includes the neighborhoods of Canaryville and Back of the Yards, historically known for its stockyards and industrial roots.
  • E. Newark, Illinois
    Newark, Illinois is a small rural village in northern Illinois known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
  • 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: New Boston, Illinois
Triple: [Mercer County, Illinois, containsSettlement, New Boston, Illinois]
Generated description
New Boston, Illinois is a small city situated along the Mississippi River in Mercer County in western Illinois.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New Boston, Illinois
Target entity description: New Boston, Illinois is a small city situated along the Mississippi River in Mercer County in western Illinois.
  • A. New Boston, Indiana
    New Boston, Indiana is an unincorporated rural community located in Perry County in the southern part of the U.S. state of Indiana.
  • B. New Berlin, Illinois
    New Berlin, Illinois is a small village in central Illinois located just west of Springfield in Sangamon County.
  • C. Newman, Illinois
    Newman, Illinois is a small rural city located in east-central Illinois within Douglas County.
  • D. New City, Chicago
    New City is a community area on Chicago’s South Side that includes the neighborhoods of Canaryville and Back of the Yards, historically known for its stockyards and industrial roots.
  • E. Newark, Illinois
    Newark, Illinois is a small rural village in northern Illinois known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
  • 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_69d7bdf92b588190acdf2a2291ac4590 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9719e584c81909be1ac1366effca0 completed April 10, 2026, 9:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6a5680d748190b8453793219bda8f completed May 3, 2026, 1:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6a6f6b3348190b50560e747f78d62 completed May 3, 2026, 1:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6a7c12ef8819095d2418d9999926a completed May 3, 2026, 1:41 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:41 p.m.