Triple

T15582632
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Portland District E374537 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object Northwestern Division (USACE)
The Northwestern Division (USACE) is a major regional command of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers responsible for overseeing civil works, military construction, and water resource management across several northwestern states.
E1165620 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: Northwestern Division (USACE) | Statement: [Portland District, partOf, Northwestern Division (USACE)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Northwestern Division (USACE)
Context triple: [Portland District, partOf, Northwestern Division (USACE)]
  • A. USACE Rock Island District
    USACE Rock Island District is a regional division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers responsible for managing navigation, flood risk, and related water resource projects along portions of the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway.
  • B. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for designing, building, and maintaining military and civil engineering projects such as dams, waterways, and infrastructure.
  • C. Columbia River Department
    The Columbia River Department was a regional fur-trading division that managed the American Fur Company's operations and trade networks in the Pacific Northwest around the Columbia River basin.
  • D. Trinity River Division
    The Trinity River Division is a major component of California’s Central Valley Project that stores, diverts, and delivers water from the Trinity River basin for irrigation, power generation, and environmental purposes.
  • E. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Paul District
    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Paul District is a regional division of the Corps responsible for managing navigation, flood risk reduction, and water resource infrastructure across portions of the Upper Mississippi River and surrounding watersheds.
  • 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: Northwestern Division (USACE)
Triple: [Portland District, partOf, Northwestern Division (USACE)]
Generated description
The Northwestern Division (USACE) is a major regional command of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers responsible for overseeing civil works, military construction, and water resource management across several northwestern states.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Northwestern Division (USACE)
Target entity description: The Northwestern Division (USACE) is a major regional command of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers responsible for overseeing civil works, military construction, and water resource management across several northwestern states.
  • A. USACE Rock Island District
    USACE Rock Island District is a regional division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers responsible for managing navigation, flood risk, and related water resource projects along portions of the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway.
  • B. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for designing, building, and maintaining military and civil engineering projects such as dams, waterways, and infrastructure.
  • C. Columbia River Department
    The Columbia River Department was a regional fur-trading division that managed the American Fur Company's operations and trade networks in the Pacific Northwest around the Columbia River basin.
  • D. Trinity River Division
    The Trinity River Division is a major component of California’s Central Valley Project that stores, diverts, and delivers water from the Trinity River basin for irrigation, power generation, and environmental purposes.
  • E. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Paul District
    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Paul District is a regional division of the Corps responsible for managing navigation, flood risk reduction, and water resource infrastructure across portions of the Upper Mississippi River and surrounding watersheds.
  • 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_69d85ccd575081908909b71a3f3e3a61 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04e45ee3c8190a6aee06a5805ca39 completed April 16, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff4c4f71e48190a15eb0a2138f083f completed May 9, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff4fb2522481909fa66c2e1fac23bf completed May 9, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff5238f0e88190b280942022480c12 completed May 9, 2026, 3:26 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:11 a.m.