Triple

T3932926
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Benton MacKaye E90836 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning
"An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning" is the 1921 visionary essay by Benton MacKaye that first proposed the creation of the Appalachian Trail as both a long-distance footpath and a comprehensive regional planning initiative for conservation and community development.
E399614 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: An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning | Statement: [Benton MacKaye, notableWork, An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning
Context triple: [Benton MacKaye, notableWork, An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning]
  • A. Town Planning in Practice
    Town Planning in Practice is a seminal early 20th-century book on urban planning that helped shape modern town planning principles and the garden city movement.
  • B. New York State Multiple Use Areas
    New York State Multiple Use Areas are publicly managed lands in New York that support a mix of outdoor recreation, wildlife habitat, and natural resource conservation under state oversight.
  • C. World’s End trails and open space
    World’s End trails and open space is a scenic coastal conservation area in Hingham, Massachusetts, known for its walking paths, rolling hills, and views of Boston Harbor.
  • D. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Evaluation
    The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Evaluation are federal guidelines that define how to assess the historical significance and integrity of properties for potential recognition and protection in the United States.
  • E. Metropolitan Planning Organizations in Northern California
    Metropolitan Planning Organizations in Northern California are regional transportation planning agencies that coordinate long-range transit, land use, and infrastructure strategies across multiple jurisdictions in the northern part of the state.
  • 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: An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning
Triple: [Benton MacKaye, notableWork, An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning]
Generated description
"An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning" is the 1921 visionary essay by Benton MacKaye that first proposed the creation of the Appalachian Trail as both a long-distance footpath and a comprehensive regional planning initiative for conservation and community development.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning
Target entity description: "An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning" is the 1921 visionary essay by Benton MacKaye that first proposed the creation of the Appalachian Trail as both a long-distance footpath and a comprehensive regional planning initiative for conservation and community development.
  • A. Town Planning in Practice
    Town Planning in Practice is a seminal early 20th-century book on urban planning that helped shape modern town planning principles and the garden city movement.
  • B. New York State Multiple Use Areas
    New York State Multiple Use Areas are publicly managed lands in New York that support a mix of outdoor recreation, wildlife habitat, and natural resource conservation under state oversight.
  • C. World’s End trails and open space
    World’s End trails and open space is a scenic coastal conservation area in Hingham, Massachusetts, known for its walking paths, rolling hills, and views of Boston Harbor.
  • D. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Evaluation
    The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Evaluation are federal guidelines that define how to assess the historical significance and integrity of properties for potential recognition and protection in the United States.
  • E. Metropolitan Planning Organizations in Northern California
    Metropolitan Planning Organizations in Northern California are regional transportation planning agencies that coordinate long-range transit, land use, and infrastructure strategies across multiple jurisdictions in the northern part of the state.
  • 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_69aed95f26e0819094b0e71974543a19 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeedaaf3c881909539831bf3a8bf10 completed March 9, 2026, 3:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b52887d4a48190b51df3f51ff197c0 completed March 14, 2026, 9:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b529a1486881908ff348558199232b completed March 14, 2026, 9:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b52a43c6f081908366d9848728f98a completed March 14, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:23 p.m.