Triple

T13163417
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shelby Township, Michigan E312782 entity
Predicate governingBody P46 FINISHED
Object Shelby Township Board of Trustees
The Shelby Township Board of Trustees is the elected legislative and executive body responsible for setting policy, passing local ordinances, and overseeing the administration and budget of Shelby Township, Michigan.
E1024130 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: Shelby Township Board of Trustees | Statement: [Shelby Township, Michigan, governingBody, Shelby Township Board of Trustees]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shelby Township Board of Trustees
Context triple: [Shelby Township, Michigan, governingBody, Shelby Township Board of Trustees]
  • A. Lansing Township Board
    The Lansing Township Board is the elected governing body responsible for setting policy, passing local ordinances, and overseeing administration for Lansing Township, Michigan.
  • B. Meridian Charter Township Board
    The Meridian Charter Township Board is the elected governing body responsible for setting policy, budgets, and local ordinances for Meridian Charter Township, which includes the community of Okemos, Michigan.
  • C. Washington Township board
    The Washington Township board is the elected local governing body responsible for overseeing township services, budgets, and policies in Washington Township, Allen County, Indiana.
  • D. St. Clair Township Council
    St. Clair Township Council is the municipal governing body responsible for setting policies, passing bylaws, and overseeing local services for residents within St. Clair Township, which includes the community of Corunna, Ontario.
  • E. Trenton Township Board of Trustees
    The Trenton Township Board of Trustees is the elected governing body responsible for overseeing local administration, services, and policy decisions for Trenton Township in Delaware County, Ohio.
  • 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: Shelby Township Board of Trustees
Triple: [Shelby Township, Michigan, governingBody, Shelby Township Board of Trustees]
Generated description
The Shelby Township Board of Trustees is the elected legislative and executive body responsible for setting policy, passing local ordinances, and overseeing the administration and budget of Shelby Township, Michigan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shelby Township Board of Trustees
Target entity description: The Shelby Township Board of Trustees is the elected legislative and executive body responsible for setting policy, passing local ordinances, and overseeing the administration and budget of Shelby Township, Michigan.
  • A. Lansing Township Board
    The Lansing Township Board is the elected governing body responsible for setting policy, passing local ordinances, and overseeing administration for Lansing Township, Michigan.
  • B. Meridian Charter Township Board
    The Meridian Charter Township Board is the elected governing body responsible for setting policy, budgets, and local ordinances for Meridian Charter Township, which includes the community of Okemos, Michigan.
  • C. Washington Township board
    The Washington Township board is the elected local governing body responsible for overseeing township services, budgets, and policies in Washington Township, Allen County, Indiana.
  • D. St. Clair Township Council
    St. Clair Township Council is the municipal governing body responsible for setting policies, passing bylaws, and overseeing local services for residents within St. Clair Township, which includes the community of Corunna, Ontario.
  • E. Trenton Township Board of Trustees
    The Trenton Township Board of Trustees is the elected governing body responsible for overseeing local administration, services, and policy decisions for Trenton Township in Delaware County, Ohio.
  • 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_69d806ac3ee081909b2fd27d060aa974 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98c0a9d348190909fcf45f9d650e4 completed April 10, 2026, 11:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6eaf4cd788190b74cca51b5219bfb completed May 3, 2026, 6:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6eeefa9a08190b042212f24735ca7 completed May 3, 2026, 6:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6ef933f888190880e680f7f4c1c29 completed May 3, 2026, 6:47 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:13 p.m.