Triple

T13234938
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sterling, Illinois E315118 entity
Predicate region P40 FINISHED
Object Sauk Valley region
The Sauk Valley region is a northwestern Illinois area centered around communities like Sterling and Rock Falls, known for its agricultural landscape and location along the Rock River.
E91791 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: Sauk Valley region | Statement: [Sterling, Illinois, region, Sauk Valley region]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sauk Valley region
Context triple: [Sterling, Illinois, region, Sauk Valley region]
  • A. Fox Valley
    Fox Valley is a suburban region in northern Illinois centered along the Fox River, known for its chain of mid-sized cities, historic downtowns, and riverfront communities west of Chicago.
  • B. Rock River valley
    Rock River valley is a historically significant river valley region in the Upper Midwest of the United States, known as a traditional homeland and cultural landscape of the Ho-Chunk people.
  • C. Driftless Area
    The Driftless Area is a distinctive region of the Upper Midwest in the United States known for its rugged, steep terrain and deep river valleys that escaped glaciation during the last Ice Age.
  • D. Wabash Valley
    Wabash Valley is a geographic and cultural region in the Midwest centered around the Wabash River, encompassing parts of western Indiana and eastern Illinois.
  • E. Illinois River Valley
    The Illinois River Valley is a prominent Midwestern river valley in the U.S. state of Illinois, characterized by its broad floodplains, rich agricultural land, and historical role as a transportation and trade corridor.
  • 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: Sauk Valley region
Triple: [Sterling, Illinois, region, Sauk Valley region]
Generated description
The Sauk Valley region is a northwestern Illinois area centered around communities like Sterling and Rock Falls, known for its agricultural landscape and location along the Rock River.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sauk Valley region
Target entity description: The Sauk Valley region is a northwestern Illinois area centered around communities like Sterling and Rock Falls, known for its agricultural landscape and location along the Rock River.
  • A. Fox Valley
    Fox Valley is a suburban region in northern Illinois centered along the Fox River, known for its chain of mid-sized cities, historic downtowns, and riverfront communities west of Chicago.
  • B. Rock River valley chosen
    Rock River valley is a historically significant river valley region in the Upper Midwest of the United States, known as a traditional homeland and cultural landscape of the Ho-Chunk people.
  • C. Driftless Area
    The Driftless Area is a distinctive region of the Upper Midwest in the United States known for its rugged, steep terrain and deep river valleys that escaped glaciation during the last Ice Age.
  • D. Wabash Valley
    Wabash Valley is a geographic and cultural region in the Midwest centered around the Wabash River, encompassing parts of western Indiana and eastern Illinois.
  • E. Illinois River Valley
    The Illinois River Valley is a prominent Midwestern river valley in the U.S. state of Illinois, characterized by its broad floodplains, rich agricultural land, and historical role as a transportation and trade corridor.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d806affc688190a25b6ccc588e9c72 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98d36bdf8819099949b1e0e6902d3 completed April 10, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f70a35ccc88190881a7066b7af8fea completed May 3, 2026, 8:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f70c000da081909297f3d24666b6a5 completed May 3, 2026, 8:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f70ce60a7081908f9498fcfec98e90 completed May 3, 2026, 8:52 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:22 p.m.