Triple

T5047525
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sioux City metropolitan area E113702 entity
Predicate crossesPoliticalBoundary P13760 FINISHED
Object Iowa–South Dakota border E91942 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Iowa–South Dakota border | Statement: [Sioux City metropolitan area, crossesPoliticalBoundary, Iowa–South Dakota border]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Iowa–South Dakota border
Context triple: [Sioux City metropolitan area, crossesPoliticalBoundary, Iowa–South Dakota border]
  • A. Iowa–South Dakota border chosen
    The Iowa–South Dakota border is the state line in the north-central United States that largely follows the course of the Big Sioux River, separating Iowa from South Dakota.
  • B. Minnesota–South Dakota border
    The Minnesota–South Dakota border is the state line in the north-central United States separating Minnesota and South Dakota, much of which follows natural features such as rivers and survey lines across the prairie.
  • C. Nebraska–South Dakota border
    The Nebraska–South Dakota border is a U.S. state boundary running largely along the Missouri River, separating Nebraska to the south from South Dakota to the north.
  • D. Nebraska–Iowa border
    The Nebraska–Iowa border is the state line in the central United States that largely follows the course of the Missouri River, separating Nebraska to the west from Iowa to the east.
  • E. Iowa–Minnesota border
    The Iowa–Minnesota border is the state line separating Iowa and Minnesota in the Midwestern United States, largely following straight survey lines with some sections defined by rivers.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69bd44391fc48190a311ce9c826c209b completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd740002b48190bc7aa176d734c589 completed March 20, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bea47e5ba0819088217a9ad3ce2b0a completed March 21, 2026, 2 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:37 p.m.