Triple
T17450587
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | J Harlen Bretz |
E424901
|
entity |
| Predicate | birthPlace |
P1
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Saranac, Michigan, United States |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Saranac, Michigan, United States | Statement: [J Harlen Bretz, birthPlace, Saranac, Michigan, United States]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Saranac, Michigan, United States Context triple: [J Harlen Bretz, birthPlace, Saranac, Michigan, United States]
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A.
Saranac, Michigan
chosen
Saranac, Michigan is a small rural village in Ionia County known for its close-knit community and location along the Grand River in central Michigan.
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B.
Mohawk, Michigan
Mohawk, Michigan is an unincorporated community and former copper mining town that serves as the primary population center of Keweenaw County in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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C.
White Pine, Michigan
White Pine, Michigan is a small unincorporated community and former copper mining town located in Ontonagon County in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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D.
Petoskey, Michigan, United States
Petoskey, Michigan, United States is a small resort city on the shores of Lake Michigan known for its scenic waterfront, historic downtown, and distinctive fossilized coral "Petoskey stones."
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E.
Ishpeming, Michigan
Ishpeming, Michigan is a small city in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula known historically as an iron mining center and as the birthplace of Nobel Prize–winning chemist Glenn T. Seaborg.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d889db0ba481908402409af3b37917 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e4513d00f48190802a3bdc8c8f4db5 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 3:51 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:47 a.m.