Triple

T4641182
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science E101658 entity
Predicate hasDepartment P35 FINISHED
Object Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering is an academic department at Columbia University focused on sustainable use of Earth’s resources, environmental protection, and related engineering solutions.
E457769 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: Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering | Statement: [Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, hasDepartment, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering
Context triple: [Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, hasDepartment, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering]
  • A. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley is a leading academic department focused on advancing infrastructure, environmental sustainability, and resilient systems through education and research.
  • B. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit that educates engineers and conducts research in areas such as infrastructure, transportation, water resources, and environmental protection within the A. James Clark School of Engineering.
  • C. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit at Rice University's George R. Brown School of Engineering that focuses on education and research in infrastructure, environmental systems, and sustainable engineering.
  • D. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit specializing in infrastructure, environmental systems, and related engineering disciplines within the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
  • E. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit within Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering that focuses on education and research in infrastructure, environmental systems, and sustainable engineering.
  • 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: Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering
Triple: [Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, hasDepartment, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering]
Generated description
The Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering is an academic department at Columbia University focused on sustainable use of Earth’s resources, environmental protection, and related engineering solutions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering
Target entity description: The Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering is an academic department at Columbia University focused on sustainable use of Earth’s resources, environmental protection, and related engineering solutions.
  • A. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley is a leading academic department focused on advancing infrastructure, environmental sustainability, and resilient systems through education and research.
  • B. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit that educates engineers and conducts research in areas such as infrastructure, transportation, water resources, and environmental protection within the A. James Clark School of Engineering.
  • C. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit at Rice University's George R. Brown School of Engineering that focuses on education and research in infrastructure, environmental systems, and sustainable engineering.
  • D. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit specializing in infrastructure, environmental systems, and related engineering disciplines within the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
  • E. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit within Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering that focuses on education and research in infrastructure, environmental systems, and sustainable engineering.
  • 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_69bd43d3bc7c81908f81fcf380476b0f completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd5a91b7748190b0b080af76e7b39f completed March 20, 2026, 2:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfad2fa588190aa2206ad987c5d70 completed March 21, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfbc12acc8190b8116a6003abb3e3 completed March 21, 2026, 2 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdfc44536c8190a71e52b0690a7570 completed March 21, 2026, 2:02 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:14 p.m.