Triple

T398370
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Traverse City, Michigan E9222 entity
Predicate transportation P230 FINISHED
Object U.S. Route 31
U.S. Route 31 is a major north–south United States highway running through several Midwestern and Southern states, connecting communities along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan down to the Gulf Coast.
 E269410 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: U.S. Route 31 | Statement: [Traverse City, Michigan, transportation, U.S. Route 31]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: U.S. Route 31
Context triple: [Traverse City, Michigan, transportation, U.S. Route 31]
  • A. U.S. Route 31W
    U.S. Route 31W is a major north–south U.S. highway running through Kentucky and Tennessee, serving as an important regional connector between cities such as Louisville, Elizabethtown, and Nashville.
  • B. U.S. Route 27
    U.S. Route 27 is a major north–south United States highway that runs from Florida to Michigan, passing through several southeastern and midwestern states.
  • C. U.S. Route 29
    U.S. Route 29 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Florida to Virginia, connecting numerous cities across the southeastern and mid-Atlantic United States.
  • D. U.S. Route 41
    U.S. Route 41 is a major north–south United States highway running from Miami, Florida, to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, passing through several key Midwestern and Southern states.
  • E. U.S. Route 59
    U.S. Route 59 is a north–south United States highway that runs from the Mexico–U.S. border in Texas to the Canada–U.S. border in Minnesota, passing through several central states.
  • 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: U.S. Route 31
Triple: [Traverse City, Michigan, transportation, U.S. Route 31]
Generated description
U.S. Route 31 is a major north–south United States highway running through several Midwestern and Southern states, connecting communities along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan down to the Gulf Coast.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: U.S. Route 31
Target entity description: U.S. Route 31 is a major north–south United States highway running through several Midwestern and Southern states, connecting communities along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan down to the Gulf Coast.
  • A. U.S. Route 31W
    U.S. Route 31W is a major north–south U.S. highway running through Kentucky and Tennessee, serving as an important regional connector between cities such as Louisville, Elizabethtown, and Nashville.
  • B. U.S. Route 27
    U.S. Route 27 is a major north–south United States highway that runs from Florida to Michigan, passing through several southeastern and midwestern states.
  • C. U.S. Route 29
    U.S. Route 29 is a major north–south U.S. Highway running from Florida to Virginia, connecting numerous cities across the southeastern and mid-Atlantic United States.
  • D. U.S. Route 41
    U.S. Route 41 is a major north–south United States highway running from Miami, Florida, to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, passing through several key Midwestern and Southern states.
  • E. U.S. Route 59
    U.S. Route 59 is a north–south United States highway that runs from the Mexico–U.S. border in Texas to the Canada–U.S. border in Minnesota, passing through several central states.
  • 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_69a2e8004cb88190b92ed1add6abf41a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec8bcf708190b62e15806159ceb1 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af1731ebe481908ffd1a670ae86286 completed March 9, 2026, 6:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af188b0dfc819085d3b923b204f03e completed March 9, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af191a14348190851ee44d3dbc20e3 completed March 9, 2026, 7:01 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.