Triple

T16985036
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Knox County, Illinois E412040 entity
Predicate hasMunicipality P847 FINISHED
Object Sparta, Illinois
Sparta, Illinois is a small city in Randolph County in southern Illinois, known historically for its printing industry and as a former major center for comic book production.
E882068 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: Sparta, Illinois | Statement: [Knox County, Illinois, hasMunicipality, Sparta, Illinois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sparta, Illinois
Context triple: [Knox County, Illinois, hasMunicipality, Sparta, Illinois]
  • A. Sparta, Illinois
    Sparta, Illinois is a small city in Randolph County known for serving as the real-life filming location that stood in for the fictional town of Sparta, Mississippi, in the television series "In the Heat of the Night."
  • B. Seneca, Illinois
    Seneca, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois situated along the Illinois River, known historically for its role in World War II shipbuilding.
  • C. Cicero, Illinois
    Cicero, Illinois is a historic inner-ring suburb of Chicago known for its industrial base, dense residential neighborhoods, and significant immigrant communities.
  • D. Palatine, Illinois
    Palatine, Illinois is a suburban village northwest of Chicago known for its residential communities, schools, and access to regional transportation.
  • E. Athens, Illinois
    Athens, Illinois is a small city in Menard County that functions as part of the greater Springfield, Illinois region.
  • 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: Sparta, Illinois
Triple: [Knox County, Illinois, hasMunicipality, Sparta, Illinois]
Generated description
Sparta, Illinois is a small city in Randolph County in southern Illinois, known historically for its printing industry and as a former major center for comic book production.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sparta, Illinois
Target entity description: Sparta, Illinois is a small city in Randolph County in southern Illinois, known historically for its printing industry and as a former major center for comic book production.
  • A. Sparta, Illinois chosen
    Sparta, Illinois is a small city in Randolph County known for serving as the real-life filming location that stood in for the fictional town of Sparta, Mississippi, in the television series "In the Heat of the Night."
  • B. Seneca, Illinois
    Seneca, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois situated along the Illinois River, known historically for its role in World War II shipbuilding.
  • C. Cicero, Illinois
    Cicero, Illinois is a historic inner-ring suburb of Chicago known for its industrial base, dense residential neighborhoods, and significant immigrant communities.
  • D. Palatine, Illinois
    Palatine, Illinois is a suburban village northwest of Chicago known for its residential communities, schools, and access to regional transportation.
  • E. Athens, Illinois
    Athens, Illinois is a small city in Menard County that functions as part of the greater Springfield, Illinois region.
  • 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_69d886ca8f348190812768ea8d5055ce completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3d18af95c8190a25ef0614e1a17f3 completed April 18, 2026, 6:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a011b412dd48190862fde6d1656113d completed May 10, 2026, 11:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a011d109dbc819086b563e55babc714 completed May 11, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a011d7568ec8190a2278dfa3ba29a63 completed May 11, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.