Triple

T230683
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Straits of Mackinac E4403 entity
Predicate near P350 FINISHED
Object Mackinaw City, Michigan
Mackinaw City, Michigan is a popular northern Michigan tourist village that serves as a gateway to Mackinac Island and the Upper Peninsula, known for its historic forts, lighthouses, and views of the Mackinac Bridge.
E32118 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: Mackinaw City, Michigan | Statement: [Straits of Mackinac, near, Mackinaw City, Michigan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mackinaw City, Michigan
Context triple: [Straits of Mackinac, near, Mackinaw City, Michigan]
  • A. Traverse City, Michigan
    Traverse City, Michigan is a popular northern Michigan destination known for its cherry production, vibrant downtown, and outdoor recreation along the shores of Grand Traverse Bay.
  • B. Muskegon, Michigan
    Muskegon, Michigan is a port city in western Michigan known for its Lake Michigan shoreline, maritime heritage, and recreational beaches.
  • C. 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."
  • D. Port Huron, Michigan, United States
    Port Huron is a city in eastern Michigan on the St. Clair River, known as a historic Great Lakes port and the boyhood home of inventor Thomas Edison.
  • E. Jackson, Michigan
    Jackson, Michigan is a mid-sized city in south-central Michigan historically notable as the birthplace of the Republican Party in the 1850s.
  • 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: Mackinaw City, Michigan
Triple: [Straits of Mackinac, near, Mackinaw City, Michigan]
Generated description
Mackinaw City, Michigan is a popular northern Michigan tourist village that serves as a gateway to Mackinac Island and the Upper Peninsula, known for its historic forts, lighthouses, and views of the Mackinac Bridge.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mackinaw City, Michigan
Target entity description: Mackinaw City, Michigan is a popular northern Michigan tourist village that serves as a gateway to Mackinac Island and the Upper Peninsula, known for its historic forts, lighthouses, and views of the Mackinac Bridge.
  • A. Traverse City, Michigan
    Traverse City, Michigan is a popular northern Michigan destination known for its cherry production, vibrant downtown, and outdoor recreation along the shores of Grand Traverse Bay.
  • B. Muskegon, Michigan
    Muskegon, Michigan is a port city in western Michigan known for its Lake Michigan shoreline, maritime heritage, and recreational beaches.
  • C. 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."
  • D. Port Huron, Michigan, United States
    Port Huron is a city in eastern Michigan on the St. Clair River, known as a historic Great Lakes port and the boyhood home of inventor Thomas Edison.
  • E. Jackson, Michigan
    Jackson, Michigan is a mid-sized city in south-central Michigan historically notable as the birthplace of the Republican Party in the 1850s.
  • 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_69a257363ffc81909757bde7ab3404da completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25cadae1c8190be0e8dcf33351187 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3736e4010819089000ed60dbf519c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a373c9a698819088b3981ffbf85f9b completed Feb. 28, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3742d7efc81908a46e928326e43fa completed Feb. 28, 2026, 11:03 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.