Triple

T16592718
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Grundy County, Iowa E403129 entity
Predicate hasMajorHighway P385 FINISHED
Object U.S. Route 20 in Iowa
U.S. Route 20 in Iowa is a major east–west U.S. Highway that spans the state, serving as an important transportation corridor for communities including those in Grundy County.
E964758 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: U.S. Route 20 in Iowa | Statement: [Grundy County, Iowa, hasMajorHighway, U.S. Route 20 in Iowa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: U.S. Route 20 in Iowa
Context triple: [Grundy County, Iowa, hasMajorHighway, U.S. Route 20 in Iowa]
  • A. U.S. Route 20 near Waterloo, Iowa
    U.S. Route 20 near Waterloo, Iowa is a major east–west highway segment in northeastern Iowa that serves the Waterloo–Cedar Falls area and connects with several key regional routes.
  • B. U.S. Route 20 near Rockwell City, Iowa
    U.S. Route 20 near Rockwell City, Iowa is a major east–west federal highway segment in north-central Iowa that serves as an important regional connector for communities and intersecting state routes such as Iowa Highway 10.
  • C. U.S. Route 69 in Iowa
    U.S. Route 69 in Iowa is a north–south U.S. Highway that traverses the state, connecting rural communities and regional centers as part of the national highway system.
  • D. U.S. Route 59 in Iowa
    U.S. Route 59 in Iowa is a north–south U.S. Highway running through western Iowa, connecting small towns and rural areas between the Missouri and Minnesota state lines.
  • E. U.S. Route 20 in Illinois
    U.S. Route 20 in Illinois is a major east–west U.S. highway that traverses northern Illinois, connecting rural areas, suburbs, and cities as part of a cross-country route from the Midwest to the East Coast.
  • 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: U.S. Route 20 in Iowa
Triple: [Grundy County, Iowa, hasMajorHighway, U.S. Route 20 in Iowa]
Generated description
U.S. Route 20 in Iowa is a major east–west U.S. Highway that spans the state, serving as an important transportation corridor for communities including those in Grundy County.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: U.S. Route 20 in Iowa
Target entity description: U.S. Route 20 in Iowa is a major east–west U.S. Highway that spans the state, serving as an important transportation corridor for communities including those in Grundy County.
  • A. U.S. Route 20 near Waterloo, Iowa chosen
    U.S. Route 20 near Waterloo, Iowa is a major east–west highway segment in northeastern Iowa that serves the Waterloo–Cedar Falls area and connects with several key regional routes.
  • B. U.S. Route 20 near Rockwell City, Iowa
    U.S. Route 20 near Rockwell City, Iowa is a major east–west federal highway segment in north-central Iowa that serves as an important regional connector for communities and intersecting state routes such as Iowa Highway 10.
  • C. U.S. Route 69 in Iowa
    U.S. Route 69 in Iowa is a north–south U.S. Highway that traverses the state, connecting rural communities and regional centers as part of the national highway system.
  • D. U.S. Route 59 in Iowa
    U.S. Route 59 in Iowa is a north–south U.S. Highway running through western Iowa, connecting small towns and rural areas between the Missouri and Minnesota state lines.
  • E. U.S. Route 20 in Illinois
    U.S. Route 20 in Illinois is a major east–west U.S. highway that traverses northern Illinois, connecting rural areas, suburbs, and cities as part of a cross-country route from the Midwest to the East Coast.
  • F. None of above.

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_69e35d6fcaa48190b1ba7dc3b792041a completed April 18, 2026, 10:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00759dea5c819083fe9fb7dee37a35 completed May 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0076468d588190972639d0a22f0e3e completed May 10, 2026, 12:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a007734abd481909c9c698f2aef7632 completed May 10, 2026, 12:16 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:16 a.m.