Triple

T14219901
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Livingston County, Michigan E352460 entity
Predicate hasTownship P22464 FINISHED
Object Howell Township, Michigan
Howell Township, Michigan is a civil township in Livingston County known for its mix of suburban neighborhoods, rural landscapes, and proximity to the city of Howell in southeastern Michigan.
E1107176 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: Howell Township, Michigan | Statement: [Livingston County, Michigan, hasTownship, Howell Township, Michigan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howell Township, Michigan
Context triple: [Livingston County, Michigan, hasTownship, Howell Township, Michigan]
  • A. Howell, Michigan
    Howell, Michigan is a small city in southeastern Michigan known as a historic community and commercial hub along the I-96 corridor between Lansing and Detroit.
  • B. Hartford Township, Michigan
    Hartford Township, Michigan is a small civil township in Van Buren County in the southwestern part of the state, situated within the broader Kalamazoo-Portage metropolitan region.
  • C. Lowell Township, Michigan
    Lowell Township, Michigan is a civil township in Kent County known for its mix of rural landscapes, residential communities, and proximity to the Grand River and the city of Lowell.
  • D. Houghton Township, Michigan
    Houghton Township, Michigan is a small, sparsely populated civil township located on the Keweenaw Peninsula in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, known for its remote wilderness and Lake Superior shoreline.
  • E. Lansing Township, Michigan
    Lansing Township, Michigan is a charter township located adjacent to the city of Lansing in central Michigan, functioning as a suburban community within the Lansing metropolitan area.
  • 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: Howell Township, Michigan
Triple: [Livingston County, Michigan, hasTownship, Howell Township, Michigan]
Generated description
Howell Township, Michigan is a civil township in Livingston County known for its mix of suburban neighborhoods, rural landscapes, and proximity to the city of Howell in southeastern Michigan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howell Township, Michigan
Target entity description: Howell Township, Michigan is a civil township in Livingston County known for its mix of suburban neighborhoods, rural landscapes, and proximity to the city of Howell in southeastern Michigan.
  • A. Howell, Michigan
    Howell, Michigan is a small city in southeastern Michigan known as a historic community and commercial hub along the I-96 corridor between Lansing and Detroit.
  • B. Hartford Township, Michigan
    Hartford Township, Michigan is a small civil township in Van Buren County in the southwestern part of the state, situated within the broader Kalamazoo-Portage metropolitan region.
  • C. Lowell Township, Michigan
    Lowell Township, Michigan is a civil township in Kent County known for its mix of rural landscapes, residential communities, and proximity to the Grand River and the city of Lowell.
  • D. Houghton Township, Michigan
    Houghton Township, Michigan is a small, sparsely populated civil township located on the Keweenaw Peninsula in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, known for its remote wilderness and Lake Superior shoreline.
  • E. Lansing Township, Michigan
    Lansing Township, Michigan is a charter township located adjacent to the city of Lansing in central Michigan, functioning as a suburban community within the Lansing metropolitan area.
  • 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_69d8278a06e481908b5d6af0a8afe737 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de6213801c8190a47705cd890b9ae7 completed April 14, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd8aa0e98c81908f6b55a04cd72871 completed May 8, 2026, 7:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd8d1eb5848190be35399e462aeb60 completed May 8, 2026, 7:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd8da450108190b1ed174db5f100c4 completed May 8, 2026, 7:15 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:06 a.m.