Triple

T2265466
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject St. Marys River E50132 entity
Predicate partOfWatershed P5506 FINISHED
Object Great Lakes Basin
The Great Lakes Basin is the vast drainage area in North America that channels water into the five Great Lakes and ultimately the St. Lawrence River.
E62490 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: Great Lakes Basin | Statement: [St. Marys River, partOfWatershed, Great Lakes Basin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Lakes Basin
Context triple: [St. Marys River, partOfWatershed, Great Lakes Basin]
  • A. Great Lakes
    The Great Lakes are a chain of five vast freshwater lakes in North America that form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total area and are a critical hub for transportation, industry, and ecology.
  • B. Lake Superior Basin
    The Lake Superior Basin is the vast watershed surrounding Lake Superior, encompassing its tributaries, shorelines, and adjacent landscapes in both Canada and the United States.
  • C. Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system
    The Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system is a vast interconnected chain of freshwater lakes and the St. Lawrence River that forms one of the world’s largest inland waterways, linking the interior of North America to the Atlantic Ocean.
  • D. Great Lakes region
    The Great Lakes region is a bi-national area surrounding North America’s five interconnected Great Lakes, known for its major freshwater resources, industrial centers, and historical role in U.S. and Canadian development.
  • E. Mississippi River basin
    The Mississippi River basin is the vast drainage area of the Mississippi River system, encompassing much of the central United States and parts of Canada and covering one of the largest river basins in the world.
  • 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: Great Lakes Basin
Triple: [St. Marys River, partOfWatershed, Great Lakes Basin]
Generated description
The Great Lakes Basin is the vast drainage area in North America that channels water into the five Great Lakes and ultimately the St. Lawrence River.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Lakes Basin
Target entity description: The Great Lakes Basin is the vast drainage area in North America that channels water into the five Great Lakes and ultimately the St. Lawrence River.
  • A. Great Lakes
    The Great Lakes are a chain of five vast freshwater lakes in North America that form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total area and are a critical hub for transportation, industry, and ecology.
  • B. Lake Superior Basin
    The Lake Superior Basin is the vast watershed surrounding Lake Superior, encompassing its tributaries, shorelines, and adjacent landscapes in both Canada and the United States.
  • C. Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system
    The Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system is a vast interconnected chain of freshwater lakes and the St. Lawrence River that forms one of the world’s largest inland waterways, linking the interior of North America to the Atlantic Ocean.
  • D. Great Lakes region chosen
    The Great Lakes region is a bi-national area surrounding North America’s five interconnected Great Lakes, known for its major freshwater resources, industrial centers, and historical role in U.S. and Canadian development.
  • E. Mississippi River basin
    The Mississippi River basin is the vast drainage area of the Mississippi River system, encompassing much of the central United States and parts of Canada and covering one of the largest river basins in the world.
  • 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_69a88b01e0048190ba96431b5f990ba9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc18fff0c8190acd73d8db8a41cff completed March 7, 2026, 6:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae7f0bb4d08190b7fa8815d691bdbb completed March 9, 2026, 8:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae7fc194488190bb71124f0225a521 completed March 9, 2026, 8:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae802d03648190a71303daf20e6162 completed March 9, 2026, 8:09 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.