Triple

T14598380
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Higher Walton E342634 entity
Predicate hasNearbyTown P3883 FINISHED
Object Preston
Preston is a city in Lancashire, England, known historically as a major industrial and market center and now serving as a key administrative and commercial hub in the region.
 E24766 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: Preston | Statement: [Higher Walton, hasNearbyTown, Preston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Preston
Context triple: [Higher Walton, hasNearbyTown, Preston]
  • A. Preston
    Preston is a historic industrial city in Lancashire, England, known for its role in the Industrial Revolution and its status as a major urban center in the North West.
  • B. Preston
    Preston is a locality within the Dover District of Kent, England, known as a small rural village community.
  • C. Preston
    Preston is a suburb in Melbourne, Australia, served by its own railway station on the metropolitan train network.
  • D. Preston
    Preston is a village in East Lothian, Scotland, known historically for its association with the nearby town of Prestonpans and its role in the region’s agricultural and industrial development.
  • E. Preston
    Preston is a masculine given name of English origin that has been used both as a first name and a surname.
  • 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: Preston
Triple: [Higher Walton, hasNearbyTown, Preston]
Generated description
Preston is a city in Lancashire, England, known historically as a major industrial and market center and now serving as a key administrative and commercial hub in the region.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Preston
Target entity description: Preston is a city in Lancashire, England, known historically as a major industrial and market center and now serving as a key administrative and commercial hub in the region.
  • A. Preston chosen
    Preston is a historic industrial city in Lancashire, England, known for its role in the Industrial Revolution and its status as a major urban center in the North West.
  • B. Preston
    Preston is a residential area and suburb within the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside in North East England.
  • C. Preston
    Preston is a village in East Lothian, Scotland, known historically for its association with the nearby town of Prestonpans and its role in the region’s agricultural and industrial development.
  • D. Preston
    Preston is a locality within the Dover District of Kent, England, known as a small rural village community.
  • E. Preston
    Preston is a masculine given name of English origin that has been used both as a first name and a surname.
  • 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_69d822ddc0f081909cd8163c7de298cd completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb436d92881908fdf9267568feee2 completed April 14, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fda91a4d7881908f783beb72578067 completed May 8, 2026, 9:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fdb8818744819094a23a01c9456130 completed May 8, 2026, 10:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fdb92a65fc8190b8f507c1143d9213 completed May 8, 2026, 10:21 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:25 a.m.