Triple

T4630909
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Northern Illinois University E101413 entity
Predicate acronym P43 FINISHED
Object NIU
NIU is a public research university located in DeKalb, Illinois, known for its diverse academic programs and Huskies athletic teams.
 E457669 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: NIU | Statement: [Northern Illinois University, acronym, NIU]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: NIU
Context triple: [Northern Illinois University, acronym, NIU]
  • A. NIU
    NIU is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to the island nation of Niue in the South Pacific Ocean.
  • B. UNI
    UNI is a public university in Cedar Falls, Iowa, known for its strong teacher education programs and comprehensive undergraduate and graduate offerings.
  • C. NI
    NI is the abbreviation for Nuevas Ideas, a political party in El Salvador founded by President Nayib Bukele.
  • D. NI
    NI is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the German federal state of Lower Saxony.
  • E. Uni
    Uni is an Etruscan goddess, broadly equivalent to the Roman Juno and Greek Hera, associated with marriage, fertility, and protection 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: NIU
Triple: [Northern Illinois University, acronym, NIU]
Generated description
NIU is a public research university located in DeKalb, Illinois, known for its diverse academic programs and Huskies athletic teams.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: NIU
Target entity description: NIU is a public research university located in DeKalb, Illinois, known for its diverse academic programs and Huskies athletic teams.
  • A. NIU
    NIU is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to the island nation of Niue in the South Pacific Ocean.
  • B. UNI
    UNI is a public university in Cedar Falls, Iowa, known for its strong teacher education programs and comprehensive undergraduate and graduate offerings.
  • C. NI
    NI is the abbreviation for Nuevas Ideas, a political party in El Salvador founded by President Nayib Bukele.
  • D. NI
    NI is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the German federal state of Lower Saxony.
  • E. Uni
    Uni is an Etruscan goddess, broadly equivalent to the Roman Juno and Greek Hera, associated with marriage, fertility, and protection 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_69bd43d2f1c081908cd4b7ec48ecc73d completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd5a32d6408190962e60b9bce7560d completed March 20, 2026, 2:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfab992148190a1b1dfa33b971d11 completed March 21, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfb56021081909b23d22770bf3c88 completed March 21, 2026, 1:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdfbf15f1481908b76bcdd37ebd4ce completed March 21, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:13 p.m.