Triple
T21657421
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | U.S. Highways in Iowa |
E534502
|
entity |
| Predicate | maintainedBy |
P86
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Iowa Department of Transportation |
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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: Iowa Department of Transportation | Statement: [U.S. Highways in Iowa, maintainedBy, Iowa Department of Transportation]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Iowa Department of Transportation Context triple: [U.S. Highways in Iowa, maintainedBy, Iowa Department of Transportation]
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A.
Iowa Department of Transportation
chosen
The Iowa Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Iowa’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways and interstates.
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B.
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.
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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.
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D.
Illinois Department of Transportation
The Illinois Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Illinois’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, public transit, rail, and aviation systems.
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E.
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Wisconsin’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, public transit, rail, and related facilities.
- 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_69e0c467e1f48190af2650b19175abc4 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ef5919c9c88190a2ddcf2cefee79a5 |
completed | April 27, 2026, 12:39 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:36 p.m.