Triple

T2053876

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Interstate 229 (South Dakota)	`E45629`	entity
Predicate	maintainedBy	`P86`	FINISHED
Object	South Dakota Department of Transportation The South Dakota Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining South Dakota’s highway and transportation infrastructure.	`E230063`	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: South Dakota Department of Transportation | Statement: [Interstate 229 (South Dakota), maintainedBy, South Dakota Department of Transportation]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: South Dakota Department of Transportation
Context triple: [Interstate 229 (South Dakota), maintainedBy, South Dakota Department of Transportation]

A. Nebraska Department of Transportation
The Nebraska Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Nebraska’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
B. Montana Department of Transportation
The Montana Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Montana’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
C. Minnesota Department of Transportation
The Minnesota Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Minnesota’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and transit systems.
D. Kansas Department of Transportation
The Kansas Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Kansas’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
E. Oklahoma Department of Transportation
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Oklahoma’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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: South Dakota Department of Transportation
Triple: [Interstate 229 (South Dakota), maintainedBy, South Dakota Department of Transportation]

Generated description

The South Dakota Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining South Dakota’s highway and transportation infrastructure.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: South Dakota Department of Transportation
Target entity description: The South Dakota Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining South Dakota’s highway and transportation infrastructure.

A. Nebraska Department of Transportation
The Nebraska Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Nebraska’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
B. Montana Department of Transportation
The Montana Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Montana’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
C. Minnesota Department of Transportation
The Minnesota Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Minnesota’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and transit systems.
D. Kansas Department of Transportation
The Kansas Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Kansas’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
E. Oklahoma Department of Transportation
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Oklahoma’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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_69a8891a19508190a12ef1e192308dcb`	completed	March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69abb99196ec819096f491ac7732156a`	completed	March 7, 2026, 5:37 a.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69ae200c10848190b557332d39f1854d`	completed	March 9, 2026, 1:19 a.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69ae20a6ce14819098007416d6377f2e`	completed	March 9, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69ae2130ba448190b91f590a348ebf88`	completed	March 9, 2026, 1:24 a.m.

Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:39 p.m.