Triple

T1691835
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Edward Keeler E36565 entity
Predicate placeOfBirth P1 FINISHED
Object La Salle, Illinois, United States of America
La Salle is a small city in north-central Illinois, United States, historically known as an industrial and transportation hub along the Illinois River and the Illinois and Michigan Canal.
E191004 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: La Salle, Illinois, United States of America | Statement: [James Edward Keeler, placeOfBirth, La Salle, Illinois, United States of America]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: La Salle, Illinois, United States of America
Context triple: [James Edward Keeler, placeOfBirth, La Salle, Illinois, United States of America]
  • A. Champaign, Illinois, United States
    Champaign is a central Illinois city known for forming the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area and hosting the main campus of the University of Illinois.
  • B. Urbana, Illinois, United States
    Urbana, Illinois, United States is a Midwestern college town best known as home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its major research community.
  • C. Niles, Illinois
    Niles, Illinois is a suburban village northwest of Chicago known for its residential character and landmarks like its Leaning Tower replica.
  • D. Lombard, Illinois
    Lombard, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its historic Lilac Festival and residential character.
  • E. Peoria, Illinois, United States
    Peoria, Illinois, United States is a mid-sized city along the Illinois River known historically as a manufacturing and transportation hub and often cited as a barometer of mainstream American tastes.
  • 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: La Salle, Illinois, United States of America
Triple: [James Edward Keeler, placeOfBirth, La Salle, Illinois, United States of America]
Generated description
La Salle is a small city in north-central Illinois, United States, historically known as an industrial and transportation hub along the Illinois River and the Illinois and Michigan Canal.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: La Salle, Illinois, United States of America
Target entity description: La Salle is a small city in north-central Illinois, United States, historically known as an industrial and transportation hub along the Illinois River and the Illinois and Michigan Canal.
  • A. Champaign, Illinois, United States
    Champaign is a central Illinois city known for forming the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area and hosting the main campus of the University of Illinois.
  • B. Urbana, Illinois, United States
    Urbana, Illinois, United States is a Midwestern college town best known as home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its major research community.
  • C. Niles, Illinois
    Niles, Illinois is a suburban village northwest of Chicago known for its residential character and landmarks like its Leaning Tower replica.
  • D. Lombard, Illinois
    Lombard, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its historic Lilac Festival and residential character.
  • E. Peoria, Illinois, United States
    Peoria, Illinois, United States is a mid-sized city along the Illinois River known historically as a manufacturing and transportation hub and often cited as a barometer of mainstream American tastes.
  • 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_69a886151508819084fa7f1ce6e05577 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa62b097488190907e3bce234e3c77 completed March 6, 2026, 5:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad79947c908190b807205bd44c3254 completed March 8, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad7a1223fc8190b7d62217c17f7517 completed March 8, 2026, 1:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad7b0787c88190a59a815fa808ac6b completed March 8, 2026, 1:35 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.