Triple

T4252853
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joe Hamilton E95897 entity
Predicate placeOfBirth P1 FINISHED
Object Johnston City, Illinois, United States
Johnston City is a small coal-mining heritage town in Williamson County in southern Illinois, United States.
E423818 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: Johnston City, Illinois, United States | Statement: [Joe Hamilton, placeOfBirth, Johnston City, Illinois, United States]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Johnston City, Illinois, United States
Context triple: [Joe Hamilton, placeOfBirth, Johnston City, Illinois, United States]
  • A. Johnsburg, Illinois
    Johnsburg, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois known as a residential community within the Chicago metropolitan area.
  • B. Matteson, Illinois
    Matteson, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential communities and retail centers.
  • C. Mokena, Illinois
    Mokena, Illinois is a suburban village southwest of Chicago known for its residential communities, good schools, and location within Will County’s growing metropolitan area.
  • D. Winfield, Illinois
    Winfield, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential character and proximity to major medical and forest preserve facilities.
  • E. Midlothian, Illinois
    Midlothian, Illinois is a suburban village in Cook County, part of the Chicago metropolitan area, known for its residential neighborhoods and commuter access to the city.
  • 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: Johnston City, Illinois, United States
Triple: [Joe Hamilton, placeOfBirth, Johnston City, Illinois, United States]
Generated description
Johnston City is a small coal-mining heritage town in Williamson County in southern Illinois, United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Johnston City, Illinois, United States
Target entity description: Johnston City is a small coal-mining heritage town in Williamson County in southern Illinois, United States.
  • A. Johnsburg, Illinois
    Johnsburg, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois known as a residential community within the Chicago metropolitan area.
  • B. Matteson, Illinois
    Matteson, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential communities and retail centers.
  • C. Mokena, Illinois
    Mokena, Illinois is a suburban village southwest of Chicago known for its residential communities, good schools, and location within Will County’s growing metropolitan area.
  • D. Winfield, Illinois
    Winfield, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential character and proximity to major medical and forest preserve facilities.
  • E. Midlothian, Illinois
    Midlothian, Illinois is a suburban village in Cook County, part of the Chicago metropolitan area, known for its residential neighborhoods and commuter access to the city.
  • 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_69b3453f759881909b91f01a1e82c036 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b34ebc98e08190915ac309a51ef87f completed March 12, 2026, 11:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5a8845e6081908bbf1aef2a2da754 completed March 14, 2026, 6:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5a8f374fc8190830286dfadc9bdbb completed March 14, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5a99a4a9c8190a7e9bbc119d8d775 completed March 14, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:06 p.m.