Triple

T1522917
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject M-28 (Michigan highway) E32269 entity
Predicate maintainedBy P86 FINISHED
Object Michigan Department of Transportation
The Michigan Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Michigan’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
E173911 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: Michigan Department of Transportation | Statement: [M-28 (Michigan highway), maintainedBy, Michigan Department of Transportation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michigan Department of Transportation
Context triple: [M-28 (Michigan highway), maintainedBy, Michigan Department of Transportation]
  • A. Indiana Department of Transportation
    The Indiana Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Indiana’s transportation infrastructure, including highways and related systems.
  • B. Minnesota Department of Transportation
    The Minnesota Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Minnesota’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and transit systems.
  • C. Mississippi Department of Transportation
    The Mississippi Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Mississippi’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
  • D. Iowa Department of Transportation
    The Iowa Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Iowa’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways and interstates.
  • E. Maine Department of Transportation
    The Maine Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Maine’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and related facilities.
  • 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: Michigan Department of Transportation
Triple: [M-28 (Michigan highway), maintainedBy, Michigan Department of Transportation]
Generated description
The Michigan Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Michigan’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michigan Department of Transportation
Target entity description: The Michigan Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Michigan’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
  • A. Indiana Department of Transportation
    The Indiana Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Indiana’s transportation infrastructure, including highways and related systems.
  • B. Minnesota Department of Transportation
    The Minnesota Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Minnesota’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and transit systems.
  • C. Mississippi Department of Transportation
    The Mississippi Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Mississippi’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
  • D. Iowa Department of Transportation
    The Iowa Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Iowa’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways and interstates.
  • E. Maine Department of Transportation
    The Maine Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Maine’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and related facilities.
  • 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_69a885e9b0ac819093a9806ad0efc82c completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90800433c8190b23ae2860493a16e completed March 5, 2026, 4:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad294f9e2481909f1d685d7f083c6a completed March 8, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad29f4edc48190b78a6df091e289ab completed March 8, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad2a78b9608190b70f8d0ae531618d completed March 8, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:26 p.m.