Triple

T16344857
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tryon, North Carolina E396903 entity
Predicate near P350 FINISHED
Object Columbus, North Carolina
Columbus, North Carolina is a small town in Polk County that serves as the county seat and a gateway to the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
E1214189 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: Columbus, North Carolina | Statement: [Tryon, North Carolina, near, Columbus, North Carolina]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Columbus, North Carolina
Context triple: [Tryon, North Carolina, near, Columbus, North Carolina]
  • A. Cornelius, North Carolina
    Cornelius, North Carolina is a suburban lakeside town in Mecklenburg County known for its recreational access to Lake Norman and proximity to Charlotte.
  • B. Columbia, North Carolina
    Columbia, North Carolina is a small town in Tyrrell County known as a gateway to the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula and nearby coastal wildlife refuges.
  • C. Cleveland, North Carolina
    Cleveland, North Carolina is a small town in Rowan County known for its rural character and proximity to the Salisbury metropolitan area.
  • D. Dublin, North Carolina
    Dublin, North Carolina is a small town located in southeastern North Carolina within Bladen County.
  • E. Lexington, North Carolina
    Lexington, North Carolina is a small city in the central Piedmont region best known for its distinctive style of barbecue and annual Barbecue Festival.
  • 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: Columbus, North Carolina
Triple: [Tryon, North Carolina, near, Columbus, North Carolina]
Generated description
Columbus, North Carolina is a small town in Polk County that serves as the county seat and a gateway to the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Columbus, North Carolina
Target entity description: Columbus, North Carolina is a small town in Polk County that serves as the county seat and a gateway to the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
  • A. Cornelius, North Carolina
    Cornelius, North Carolina is a suburban lakeside town in Mecklenburg County known for its recreational access to Lake Norman and proximity to Charlotte.
  • B. Columbia, North Carolina
    Columbia, North Carolina is a small town in Tyrrell County known as a gateway to the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula and nearby coastal wildlife refuges.
  • C. Cleveland, North Carolina
    Cleveland, North Carolina is a small town in Rowan County known for its rural character and proximity to the Salisbury metropolitan area.
  • D. Dublin, North Carolina
    Dublin, North Carolina is a small town located in southeastern North Carolina within Bladen County.
  • E. Lexington, North Carolina
    Lexington, North Carolina is a small city in the central Piedmont region best known for its distinctive style of barbecue and annual Barbecue Festival.
  • 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_69d87f26864c819088365ca381a003c2 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e2da0da1808190b6477613a07c7a88 completed April 18, 2026, 1:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00457324948190b803b715cea8b86d completed May 10, 2026, 8:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0046b4f6c88190b9cf4cb669b1b08a completed May 10, 2026, 8:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a004a9d01a48190ad59b260980323cd completed May 10, 2026, 9:06 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:07 a.m.