Triple

T16583110
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Southern Expressway (Sri Lanka) E402884 entity
Predicate connectsTo P845 FINISHED
Object Outer Circular Expressway (Sri Lanka)
The Outer Circular Expressway (Sri Lanka) is a major orbital highway around Colombo designed to divert through-traffic away from the city center and link key radial expressways in the country’s road network.
E1220948 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: Outer Circular Expressway (Sri Lanka) | Statement: [Southern Expressway (Sri Lanka), connectsTo, Outer Circular Expressway (Sri Lanka)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Outer Circular Expressway (Sri Lanka)
Context triple: [Southern Expressway (Sri Lanka), connectsTo, Outer Circular Expressway (Sri Lanka)]
  • A. Southern Expressway of Sri Lanka
    The Southern Expressway of Sri Lanka is a major controlled-access highway linking Colombo with key southern cities, significantly reducing travel time and boosting regional economic development.
  • B. Colombo–Katunayake Expressway
    The Colombo–Katunayake Expressway is a major controlled-access highway in Sri Lanka that connects the capital city Colombo with Bandaranaike International Airport and the city of Negombo, significantly reducing travel time between them.
  • C. Sri Lankan expressway network
    The Sri Lankan expressway network is a system of high-speed, limited-access roads designed to provide faster, more efficient long-distance travel across Sri Lanka than the regular national highways.
  • D. Kandy–Jaffna road
    The Kandy–Jaffna road is a major Sri Lankan highway that connects the central city of Kandy with the northern city of Jaffna, serving as a key route through the island’s interior.
  • E. Colombo–Kandy road
    The Colombo–Kandy road is a major highway in Sri Lanka that links the capital city Colombo with the historic hill city of Kandy, serving as a key route to the island’s central highlands.
  • 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: Outer Circular Expressway (Sri Lanka)
Triple: [Southern Expressway (Sri Lanka), connectsTo, Outer Circular Expressway (Sri Lanka)]
Generated description
The Outer Circular Expressway (Sri Lanka) is a major orbital highway around Colombo designed to divert through-traffic away from the city center and link key radial expressways in the country’s road network.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Outer Circular Expressway (Sri Lanka)
Target entity description: The Outer Circular Expressway (Sri Lanka) is a major orbital highway around Colombo designed to divert through-traffic away from the city center and link key radial expressways in the country’s road network.
  • A. Southern Expressway of Sri Lanka
    The Southern Expressway of Sri Lanka is a major controlled-access highway linking Colombo with key southern cities, significantly reducing travel time and boosting regional economic development.
  • B. Colombo–Katunayake Expressway
    The Colombo–Katunayake Expressway is a major controlled-access highway in Sri Lanka that connects the capital city Colombo with Bandaranaike International Airport and the city of Negombo, significantly reducing travel time between them.
  • C. Sri Lankan expressway network
    The Sri Lankan expressway network is a system of high-speed, limited-access roads designed to provide faster, more efficient long-distance travel across Sri Lanka than the regular national highways.
  • D. Kandy–Jaffna road
    The Kandy–Jaffna road is a major Sri Lankan highway that connects the central city of Kandy with the northern city of Jaffna, serving as a key route through the island’s interior.
  • E. Colombo–Kandy road
    The Colombo–Kandy road is a major highway in Sri Lanka that links the capital city Colombo with the historic hill city of Kandy, serving as a key route to the island’s central highlands.
  • 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_69d88387363c8190a97a0c942130de97 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e35999088c8190900497f18728bd0b completed April 18, 2026, 10:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a006ef2d6048190954144ab848760ec completed May 10, 2026, 11:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a006fc84390819083d9d2ac1c558827 completed May 10, 2026, 11:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a007068715c8190914ccac7b14103e4 completed May 10, 2026, 11:47 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:16 a.m.