Triple

T1439440
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cedarville, Illinois, United States E31035 entity
Predicate locatedInRegion P40 FINISHED
Object 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.
E166416 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: northern Illinois | Statement: [Cedarville, Illinois, United States, locatedInRegion, northern Illinois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: northern Illinois
Context triple: [Cedarville, Illinois, United States, locatedInRegion, northern Illinois]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Quad Cities (Illinois portion)
    Quad Cities (Illinois portion) refers to the Illinois side of the bi-state Quad Cities metropolitan area along the Mississippi River, primarily including the cities of Rock Island, Moline, and East Moline.
  • D. northwestern Cook County, Illinois
    Northwestern Cook County, Illinois is a suburban region of the Chicago metropolitan area characterized by residential communities, commercial centers, and villages such as Schaumburg.
  • E. Champaign–Urbana–Rantoul metropolitan area
    The Champaign–Urbana–Rantoul metropolitan area is a central Illinois urban region anchored by the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana, known for housing the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and serving as an educational, technological, and agricultural hub.
  • 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: northern Illinois
Triple: [Cedarville, Illinois, United States, locatedInRegion, northern Illinois]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: northern Illinois
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Quad Cities (Illinois portion)
    Quad Cities (Illinois portion) refers to the Illinois side of the bi-state Quad Cities metropolitan area along the Mississippi River, primarily including the cities of Rock Island, Moline, and East Moline.
  • D. northwestern Cook County, Illinois
    Northwestern Cook County, Illinois is a suburban region of the Chicago metropolitan area characterized by residential communities, commercial centers, and villages such as Schaumburg.
  • E. Champaign–Urbana–Rantoul metropolitan area
    The Champaign–Urbana–Rantoul metropolitan area is a central Illinois urban region anchored by the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana, known for housing the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and serving as an educational, technological, and agricultural hub.
  • 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_69a4991633388190a4d61b5a98aa407a completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c506d5ac8190b4c5b394c6d3f414 completed March 1, 2026, 11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad08ba2cf88190a859bb0974761968 completed March 8, 2026, 5:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad0bc943488190892a88f4c0e392b9 completed March 8, 2026, 5:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad0c6abed48190815252fabc992c48 completed March 8, 2026, 5:43 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8 p.m.