Triple

T15668781
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Maryland transportation infrastructure E377253 entity
Predicate abbreviation P43 FINISHED
Object MDOT
MDOT is the Maryland Department of Transportation, the state agency responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Maryland’s transportation systems.
 E1171207 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: MDOT | Statement: [Maryland transportation infrastructure, abbreviation, MDOT]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: MDOT
Context triple: [Maryland transportation infrastructure, abbreviation, MDOT]
  • A. MDOT
    MDOT is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Mississippi’s transportation infrastructure, including highways and related systems.
  • B. 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.
  • C. IDOT
    IDOT is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Iowa’s transportation systems, including highways and public transit.
  • D. IDOT
    IDOT is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Illinois’s transportation systems, including highways, public transit, rail, and aviation.
  • E. SecDOT
    SecDOT is the commonly used abbreviation for the United States Secretary of Transportation, the Cabinet-level official who oversees federal transportation policy and programs.
  • 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: MDOT
Triple: [Maryland transportation infrastructure, abbreviation, MDOT]
Generated description
MDOT is the Maryland Department of Transportation, the state agency responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Maryland’s transportation systems.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: MDOT
Target entity description: MDOT is the Maryland Department of Transportation, the state agency responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Maryland’s transportation systems.
  • A. MDOT
    MDOT is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Mississippi’s transportation infrastructure, including highways and related systems.
  • B. 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.
  • C. IDOT
    IDOT is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Iowa’s transportation systems, including highways and public transit.
  • D. IDOT
    IDOT is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Illinois’s transportation systems, including highways, public transit, rail, and aviation.
  • E. SecDOT
    SecDOT is the commonly used abbreviation for the United States Secretary of Transportation, the Cabinet-level official who oversees federal transportation policy and programs.
  • 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_69d85cd2e28481909d4e975bee20872f completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04f1254508190a77a16b7bfd299ad completed April 16, 2026, 2:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff6ed8d9188190a68035d2508b117d completed May 9, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff6f691b1c8190a5b6ede22f90a1d9 completed May 9, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff700c8c748190a24996936d591435 completed May 9, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:16 a.m.