Triple

T2630894
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Central Illinois E59627 entity
Predicate contains P35 FINISHED
Object Shelby County, Illinois
Shelby County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in the U.S. state of Illinois, known for its agricultural landscape and the presence of Lake Shelbyville, a major recreational reservoir.
E442681 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: Shelby County, Illinois | Statement: [Central Illinois, contains, Shelby County, Illinois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shelby County, Illinois
Context triple: [Central Illinois, contains, Shelby County, Illinois]
  • A. Knox County, Illinois
    Knox County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in western Illinois whose seat and largest city is Galesburg.
  • B. Madison County, Illinois
    Madison County, Illinois is a county in southwestern Illinois that forms part of the St. Louis metropolitan area, encompassing a mix of industrial cities, suburbs, and rural communities.
  • C. Fulton County, Illinois
    Fulton County, Illinois is a largely rural county in west-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and historical ties to coal mining and Abraham Lincoln’s legal circuit.
  • D. Boone County, Illinois
    Boone County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in northern Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and proximity to the Rockford metropolitan area.
  • E. Pike County, Illinois
    Pike County, Illinois is a largely rural county in western Illinois along the Mississippi River, known for its agricultural landscape, historic small towns, and location between the cities of Quincy and Springfield.
  • 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: Shelby County, Illinois
Triple: [Central Illinois, contains, Shelby County, Illinois]
Generated description
Shelby County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in the U.S. state of Illinois, known for its agricultural landscape and the presence of Lake Shelbyville, a major recreational reservoir.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shelby County, Illinois
Target entity description: Shelby County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in the U.S. state of Illinois, known for its agricultural landscape and the presence of Lake Shelbyville, a major recreational reservoir.
  • A. Knox County, Illinois
    Knox County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in western Illinois whose seat and largest city is Galesburg.
  • B. Madison County, Illinois
    Madison County, Illinois is a county in southwestern Illinois that forms part of the St. Louis metropolitan area, encompassing a mix of industrial cities, suburbs, and rural communities.
  • C. Fulton County, Illinois
    Fulton County, Illinois is a largely rural county in west-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and historical ties to coal mining and Abraham Lincoln’s legal circuit.
  • D. Boone County, Illinois
    Boone County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in northern Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and proximity to the Rockford metropolitan area.
  • E. Pike County, Illinois
    Pike County, Illinois is a largely rural county in western Illinois along the Mississippi River, known for its agricultural landscape, historic small towns, and location between the cities of Quincy and Springfield.
  • 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_69ab4ac8596c8190b34997e73d9e991c completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd8c567408190b94ff047efa4bc06 completed March 7, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b62788456c8190a484826e5d915d9a completed March 15, 2026, 3:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b628fe10908190978dd0361628f54f completed March 15, 2026, 3:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b629ab52c881909f7fbef6f77b5bc4 completed March 15, 2026, 3:38 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.