Triple

T3393664
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Minnesota River E71476 entity
Predicate confluenceCity P3421 FINISHED
Object Mendota
Mendota is a small historic city in Minnesota known for its early fur trade significance and location near the meeting point of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers.
 E354894 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: Mendota | Statement: [Minnesota River, confluenceCity, Mendota]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mendota
Context triple: [Minnesota River, confluenceCity, Mendota]
  • A. Mendota
    Mendota is a small agricultural city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known for its farming and rural character.
  • B. Mendota Pool
    Mendota Pool is a key water storage and distribution reservoir in California’s Central Valley that serves as a major junction for irrigation and water conveyance systems.
  • C. Park River
    Park River is a small urban river in Hartford, Connecticut, much of which now flows through underground conduits beneath the city.
  • D. Madera
    Madera is a city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known primarily as the administrative and economic center of Madera County.
  • E. Grand Valley
    Grand Valley is a fertile valley in western Colorado known for its agriculture, particularly fruit orchards and vineyards, and as the home region of Grand Junction.
  • 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: Mendota
Triple: [Minnesota River, confluenceCity, Mendota]
Generated description
Mendota is a small historic city in Minnesota known for its early fur trade significance and location near the meeting point of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mendota
Target entity description: Mendota is a small historic city in Minnesota known for its early fur trade significance and location near the meeting point of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers.
  • A. Mendota
    Mendota is a small agricultural city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known for its farming and rural character.
  • B. Mendota Pool
    Mendota Pool is a key water storage and distribution reservoir in California’s Central Valley that serves as a major junction for irrigation and water conveyance systems.
  • C. Park River
    Park River is a small urban river in Hartford, Connecticut, much of which now flows through underground conduits beneath the city.
  • D. Madera
    Madera is a city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known primarily as the administrative and economic center of Madera County.
  • E. Grand Valley
    Grand Valley is a fertile valley in western Colorado known for its agriculture, particularly fruit orchards and vineyards, and as the home region of Grand Junction.
  • 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_69ad85a9c4a88190a854019341cb3b60 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb853746c8190bfa1447e6ebbefb3 completed March 8, 2026, 5:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b34bc8a75c8190ab4f652272d33576 completed March 12, 2026, 11:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b34e46b2b48190aedee8dabf5285bd completed March 12, 2026, 11:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b34fc0b830819082b50ebd14b6490b completed March 12, 2026, 11:44 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:14 p.m.